Mahender Singh Dhoni’s biopic, the blockbuster MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, completes four years on Wednesday. Sushant Singh Rajput won much praise for the cricketer’s honest on-screen portrayal, which went beyond perfecting MSD’s signature shots and cricket stance. The actor died on June 14.
Speaking of his preparation, Sushant had said before the film’s 2016 release and his meetings with Dhoni. “We had three series of meetings during 12 months of preparation. In our first meeting, I only asked him to tell his story. In the second, he came up with 250 hypothetical multiple-choice questions for him. Since we already have a definition of ourselves in our head, when we answer normal questions, it comes from that. But when you do it on instinct, it’s a different story. In the third series of meetings, I asked him specific questions about the script, things like ‘What were you thinking at the time?’, Just to make sure I was going in the right direction.
It was Dhoni who had tackled the hundreds of questions he had to answer. When asked if he was nervous about seeing his life unfold on screen, Dhoni had said: “Sushant must be more nervous because it was for him to show what he felt inside and make the audience believe him, so he really has scratched me. I used to wonder how I felt then, how I feel now. I said, “yaar tum sawaal he poochhte rehte ho (you keep asking too many questions). We actually spend a lot less time together. “
He had also praised Sushant, “The kind of effort that he put into the film because one of the essential parts of the film was the cricket. Of course, we all play cricket, but when you have to show it on the screen, you have to learn certain things, especially cricket shots. It has reached the helicopter shot in the movie and is exactly like a replica. So Sushant has tried very hard. “
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