M S Dhoni: The Untold Story, fierce in its belief that Dhoni is the near-flawless hero it depicts him as, delivers his inspirational rise from rags to riches with aplomb. When a film's title has "untold story" in it, we expect to get a peek into things that happened behind the front. But all we get is a near hagiographical take, preferring reverence to inquest or scrutiny as the film's method of exploration of its subject's life.
The film opens with aerial shots of the Wankhede Stadium reverberating with the ecstatic fans' chanting of "Dhoni, Dhoni" and cuts to the dressing roo....