“Sachin: A Billion Dreams”, the documentary-style sports autobiography of Cricket God Sachin Tendulkar that hit screens this Friday took an admirable opening.
The film collected 8.4 crore across India. While the Hindi version accounted for 7 crore, the remaining amount was earned by the non-Hindi version of the film. Of course, the figure is not even half of what fellow cricketer MS Dhoni’s biopic had collected, 19.20 crore but then Sachin’s film was not a cinematic presentation but a docudrama. No documentary-style film so far put up a performance that can be even remotely compared to Sachin’s.
The film has received mixed response form critics. It definitely is not for the ones who don’t have much idea about cricket or Sachin but the film is a must watch for those who lived, loved, grew up, clapped, sighed, cried watching Sachin on cricket field.
