MNS objects to Dhoni biopic in Marathi

on Aug 22, 2016

Indian cricket team's limited overs captain, MS Dhoni's biopic has garnered a lot of attention for its amazing trailer of the film. Now the makers of the film 'MS Dhoni: The Untold Story' have been planning to dub the movie into various regional languages too, including Marathi. However, Raj Thackeray’s political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is not happy with the decision and has written to the distributors of the film against the move. “By dubbing such movies in Marathi you are creating competition for local films, which are already facing problems. A Maharashtrian as it is follows Hindi. If he wants to see the film, he can watch it in Hindi,” said MNS Chitrapat Karmachari Sena president Ameya Khopkar.

Last week, the film's director Neeraj Pandey had said that since Dhoni is one of India's favourite sons and by far, the most successful Indian cricket captain, they had decided to release the film in multiple languages. Ameya Khopkar, president of the Maharashtra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena (MNCKS), the film wing of the MNS, believes that dubbing a Hindi movie in to Marathi is bad for the Marathi film industry as it creates competition for Marathi films. The makers have also dubbed the film in Tamil and Telugu, the trailers of which were launched by popular actors Dhanush and Nani respectively. But the party has clarified that they are not opposed to the movie being screened in Hindi.