With 4 runs required, Mahi hits a six and India wins the final. The film returns to the final where Mahi eases the pressure with a crucial innings. He eventually develops the team with new players. They marry and Mahi begins training for the 2011 World Cup. They soon start dating and Mahi eventually proposes marriage to her after she mentions buying him a Valentine's Day's gift which he refuses. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel official fails to recognize him and later apologizes to him. As captain of the national side, he wins the T-20 World Cup, and leads India to the number one ranking in Test matches. Mahi again goes into depression and has bad form in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
She buys a watch for him as a Valentine's Day gift but dies in a truck accident on her way. He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, an office consultant, and scores a century after meeting her. He works hard and is selected in the national team and makes his debut.
Mahi leaves his job and admits to his father that cricket is his only ambition and he wants to become a professional cricketer. Bihar loses to Punjab where Yuvraj Singh scores 301 and Mahi does not succeed though he is selected for the Duleep Trophy. After a good performance, he tries-out for the India national under-19 cricket team selections. He participates in different tournaments and as a result he gets selected for the Railways. With the insistence of his manager, Mahi decides to play cricket alongside his work, and after his day-shifts he goes to practice cricket. Years later, Mahi's sister Jayanti is married to his friend Gautam Gupta.Īfter some time, Mahi is depressed with his job. But Mahi does not give up and, to please his father, he joins the Kharagpur Station as a ticket collector. After achieving much fame, Mahi is selected for the Ranji Trophy but his draft notice is held up due to which he is late in reaching Kolkata despite his friends' help. Three years later, a grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket match. Mahi improves his batting and becomes a regular member of the team. He invites him to try out for the school cricket team as a wicketkeeper and selects him after being impressed. Fourteen years later, Mahi is spotted by a cricket coach while goalkeeping in a football game. Paan Singh is a pump operator who waters the practice ground. He later names his baby boy Mahendra 'Mahi' Singh Dhoni. At the hospital maternity unit, Paan Singh Dhoni is confused whether he has got a girl or boy. MS Dhoni, India's captain, walks out to bat after Virat Kohli's wicket. In the pre-credits sequence there is a scene of the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final. It is currently the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 in India with ₹1.16 billion (US$15 million). Upon release, the film became a critical and commercial success. In addition to being released in Hindi language, it was also dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was later cancelled due to opposition. The film was released on 30 September 2016 by Fox Star Studios and received the widest release ever for a Bollywood film across 61 countries. Dhoni eventually became a consultant on the film. Pandey recruited a number of people for researching into Dhoni's background and his life events. Neeraj Pandey was later approached to helm the film while he was working on Baby. Development began two years later, with the consent of Dhoni. The idea of the biopic was put forward by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident at an airport after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final.
The film chronicles the life of Dhoni from a young age through a series of life events. The film stars the late Sushant Singh Rajput as Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. It is based on the life of former Test, ODI and T20I captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey.