A Good Story spoiled by Stretched Screenplay

Rating: 7/10 (30 September 2016)

MS Dhoni The Untold Story Review : Bollywood is making so many Biopics in recent time. Few Biopics failed Critically + Commercially and some received tremendous success Both Critically and Commercially. Among all Bhag Milkha Bhag is my favorite and its Classic so to beat it the Film has to be Masterpiece. Coming to The MS Dhoni's Biopic which was expected to overtake BMB because of Excellent trailer but Film is not up to the Mark hence not a Classic. May be it is because of Trailer's magic which took my Expectation to the next level and Film failed to reach that level. MSDhoniTUS is a Fine example of a Good Story spoiled by Long stretched Screenplay. Story had the potential to make a Classic Film but Unnecessary Songs, Very long Runtime and Few Predictable twists made it a Good Film which should've been Classic actually. Anyways, MSD's story is an inspiration for those who dreams to become a Great cricketer even if they are from Small town or village. His struggle is shown perfectly in the film but his success was not shown with the perfection. VFX work is excellent where technical team have put SSR instead of Dhoni in Cricket match footage. SSR gave performance of his life but variations in character weren't there so he's not my favorite to win Awards. Supporting Starcast is impressive as well. Music is let down, till interval music doesn't irritate you but after interval it does. Screenplay which is 184 Minutes long is bit boring and very stretched, film could have easily been trimmed for 30 minutes by removing songs and few melodramatic and some unnecessary scenes. Cinematography is good but not excellent. Thanks to VFX and Stadium scenes which are eye pleasing and enough to give you Goosebumps. My favorite scene from Film is When Child MSD asks his Mom to buy Sachin Tendulkar's Poster. Direction is let down, Neeraj Pandey is Class Director so even small mistake from him will be considered as big. And Considering his last 3 Films (Baby, Special 26, A Wednesday) this is his Weakest Film till date. Coming to the box Office predictions, Film will have great weekend and good run at Box Office. Film should join 100cr club and i don't expect anything less or more than this. Overall it is a Good and One time watchable Flick which had the potential to become a Classic but spoiled by couple of mistakes of Director. Go for it and you won't come back with a disappoint face. 7/10* Stars by me.