Dhoni is like that flower
in the history of Indian sports that can't never be plucked out of a bouquet
better known as religion (cricket) in India. He has marvelously excelled and
consistently converted even the worst of metals into pure gold for the sake of
our nation's pride.
But all this name, fame
and wealth don't appear magically in a spur of moment. More precisely, everyone
knows that there are always two sides to every coin. We've always acknowledged
only one side of Dhoni's life irrespective of the fact that how painfully
difficult had it actually been for him and what exactly took Mahendra Singh
Dhoni to get transformed into what we know him today.
The best of efforts, a
bit of personal life, social and educational barriers (though I specifically
agree that education is a must need and the most crucial part of our life), the
weight of responsibilities to shoulder and support your family's other needs
and various other uncountable factors that always lie deep beneath the layers
of Mahi's glamorous and successful life. And this is exactly what director
Neeraj Pandey must've asked & made actor Sushant Singh Rajput to play in
the movie and exhibit a character that hammers boundaries beyond the
confinement of any person's imagination.
The difficulty one faces
in convincing his parents while carving a niche and making a mark right when
his parents link all their prayers, wishes and blessings on the surprising yet
so believable occurrence of seeing their son (or daughter) clinching a
government job is so challenging to clear. In addition to this, we all know
that Dhoni's primary interest in sport was football not cricket. Therefore,
converting all his limits and goodness of physical and mental stamina from an
entire different class of sport to an altogether different one must have
remained another herculean task for Dhoni. Besides this, there must've been so
much Dhoni must've gone through already to give our nation a T20 Cup, a WorldCup, Best TEST ranking of all time and so much more beyond mere figures,
calculations, records and achievements.
Cinema actually manages
to touch the most untouched aspects of an athlete/sportsman's life. We have
seen in recent past the various other unopened pages of Mary Kom's and Milkha
Singh's life by means of cinema. This time, Dhoni is all set to score a
magnificent century (or perhaps a double one) in his first ever cinematic
display. Hence it would be a pure delight to see what tactics Mahi used in his
personal life in order to get through miles away ahead in his professional one.
Last but not least, by the time this movie ends, I'm sure Mahi will be seen on
a different cloud that is not parallel to our world. Everyone will happily
accept and say that, "where there is a Dhoni, there is a win."
