TIL Desk Bollywood/ He wanted the biopic on him to show his journey, the inherent struggles in “decision making processes” rather than “glorify him” and that’s precisely what Mahendra Singh Dhoni told film’s director Neeraj Pandey during the conceptual phase of MS Dhoni-The Untold Story.
In the United States along with wife Sakshi and producer Arun Pandey (whose firm manages Dhoni) to promote his film, which is due to release worldwide on September 30, Dhoni spoke about his life and the transformation from a talented small town boy to one of India’s most respected captain.
“One thing I told Pandey (director Neeraj) is that this movie should not be to glorify me. It’s about the journey of a professional sportsperson and that’s what it should depict,” Dhoni told reporters here during film’s promotional event. Being a person who likes to live in the present, it was “difficult” for him to go back into his life and narrate his story to Pandey for the movie. “All those things that had happened became fresh in my memory from where I lived, how my school was, where we played. I went blank,” said Dhoni, who normally does not show much emotions on the field.
