Sachin Tendulkar's biopic smashes another record

The Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulkar wielded his bat to smash boundaries all over the cricket field, right through his career. So it’s not a surprise that his life story would set a few records of its own. The docudrama on the maestro’s life, ‘Sachin: A Billion Dreams’ created history by becoming the first ever of the genre to cross 50 million at the Box Office.

The docudrama-biographical movie has been directed by James Erskine and produced by Ravi Bhagchandka and Carnival Motion Pictures under 200 NotOut Productions. It’s a narration of Tendulkar’s life, guided by the living legend himself. The film released in the theatres on 26th May 2017.

About the movie

‘Sachin: A Billion Dreams’ completed 4 weeks at the Box Office recently, having tasted resounding success. The movie has garnered admiration from fans as well as movie critics. With a run-time of 2 hours and 22 minutes, it has been rated 9.1 on IMDb. It encompasses the Indian legend’s cricketing and personal life in substantial detail, as well as reveals few aspects of his life which have never been heard of or seen before. His childhood is portrayed by Mikhail Gandhi while the Little Master himself, acts as the narrator in the majority of the film.

It was simultaneously released in Hindi, Marathi and English and the dubbed versions of the film were released in Tamil and Telugu. Also, it was exempted from tax in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Delhi, Orissa, Kerala and Chhattisgarh.

Words from the producer

An elated producer, Ravi Bhagchandka expressed his joy at the milestone achieved by the movie. He said, “Lots of industry experts were sceptical because of the new genre we were tapping into and how it has never worked in India. But because we had the vision of portraying Sachin’s story in a very pure perspective and from his vision, we stuck to it revealing his story through this genre. And we are very happy it paid off and it’s become the highest grossing docudrama in the world. We are obviously happy and also overwhelmed with the response the movie has got in terms of creatives and content of the movie and how this has fulfilled the vision of keeping Sachin’s legacy on for years and years to come.”