Wednesday 7 September 2016

Will MSDhoni the movie break the cricket jinx?

While MSDhoni is nearing it's release date let's have a look at the other cricket based films.
We all are aware that a few films that had cricket as it's backdrop sort of never really turned out to be a hit except for Lagaan, Iqbal but they released 10-15 years before. Off late with films like Patiala House, Dil Bole hadippa and Azhar were not quite successful at the B.O(victory, Hattrick and other ton's of such films).
All of us are pretty aware that films based on cricket do not achieve a blockbuster status.
The recent example is the Biopic Azhar (starring Emraan Hashmi).
The movie based on the real life story of India's captain Mohammed Azharuddin received a lukewarm response at the domestic Box-Office.
So is cricket to be blamed? Obviously not. It is ultimately a director's job to project a good story in a great manner. Luckily for MSDhoni it is Neeraj Pandey.

But apart from it the story with MSDhoni is different.
The audience's usually have a very high amount of expectation from Biopics.
In the recent past, all the biopics released have received a very good response at the B.O(Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Mary Kom, Neerja etc.) but Azhar failed to conquer on that aspect.
Dhoni is undoubtedly the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team. The movie(going by the tagline 'The man you know..The journey you don't')is giving us a clear picture that the movie will focus more on his past life and not much on his cricket achievements and it instantly makes us all excited about the movie.
The trailer as we know has received a phenomenal response online clearly projecting the interest of the audience in this movie.

What could possibly not go in favor of the movie is it's music(it's kind of stupid but a very important factor for the audiences). The album is extremely disappointing with not even one song as a standout. Runtime also remains a crucial factor. The critics response should be out and out positive otherwise it could affect the films performance.

Sushant has already impressed everyone with his strokes. It's also his solo release after Shudh desi romance(released in 2013). So a lot depends upon him and his potrayal of Dhoni. Supporting cast looks good.
Well this movie has and will continue to create buzz but what remains to be seen is will this buzz be converted into numbers(100 cr club or close to it).
While we are quite clear that the jinx will be broken this time thanks to 'DHONI'. What are your expectations from the film?
http://bolly93.blogspot.in/2016/09/will-msdhoni-movie-break-cricket-jinx.html

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