Goosebumps! Goosebumps! Goosebumps all-around. Even after couple of hours of completion of watching and to this moment when I am penning my thoughts, I am literally in another world and unable to recover from the hangover of watching my favorite sports person on the gigantic screen whom I have been adoring since childhood. It was too hard to control my emotions after seeing all those cricketing scenes being rewound on screen.Hearing that famous Sachin.... Sachin.... chant on the big screen is making my adrenaline flying through.
Let me be honest with you, the view points that I am going to express here has every chance of becoming biased as Sachin like everyone of you for me too he is beyond words and ratings. So you all will have to bear with me for that.A career spanning three decades of international cricket, to show such a long span of the Master Blasters personal and cricketing life in a two and a hour movie is a herculean task. It is like climbing a mountain in the backward direction.
TV series and Documentary film director James Erskine does exactly that bringing on the big screen the life of Sachin Tendulkar through a docudrama titled Sachin : A Billion Dreams.In fact this attempt cannot be called a feature film as the treatment is more of a documentary one showing precious and important moments captured from his personal life as well as from the cricketing world. In between we have Sachin himself narrating his journey from a middle class family as a little boy to the Sachin we know more of.
Its not a biopic and the focus is on his childhood and how he achieve his long cherished dream.The name Sachin echoes through the entire country and he is more of an obsession for the cricket loving fraternity as well others of this nation. In this documentary, we get to know the man more closely through his personal as well as his illustrious career spanning decades. We get to see what his peers think of him, what his friends and family members have to say about him and all those little but beautiful moments through which the Master Blaster have passed through.Emotional as well as embedded with some charged and electric cricketing atmosphere, the film takes a U-turn when it came to some controversies that happened when Sachin was part of the team. That was on expected lines since the same thing happened with his autobiography "Playing it my way" too which stayed away from any sort of controversies.
Greg Chappell using the divide and rule policy during his tenure as Indian coach, betting saga, Sachin's relationship with senior cricketers and how his captaincy was taken off from him gets mentioned but all of these gets too brief a reference. It is crystal clear that the man wants to stay safe and avoid a spark of controversy.So the bottom line here is don't approach Sachin : A Billion Dreams as a commercial biopic. You have to accept that it is more of a docudrama with some touching and fine moments taken out of the man's family and professional life. I would say its a must watch if you love and adore Sachin Tendulkar. As Virat Kohli said after winning the world cup when he lifted Sachin on his shoulders that Sachin carried the burden of theentire nation on his shoulders, let us now pay him back. So in the same way let us spend few hours of our life to get more close with the man, in understanding how he rose from scratch to a world class cricketer balancing his personal and professional life successfully through this Billion Dollar movie / documentary.
Rating - For a change it is 100 out of 100
*Movie reviewed By a diehard fan of Sachin*
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