One of the earliest things that makes your eyebrows go up when you start watching Roar of the Lion — a Hotstar docudrama on Chennai Super Kings’ comeback from a two-year ban to winning the Indian Premier League title in 2018 — is when the credits roll: A Banijay Asia and Dhoni Entertainment Production.Roar of The Lion Season 1 Download.
The Hotstar Special was marketed with a trailer that had an unmissable headline-grabber: For MS Dhoni, match-fixing is a bigger crime than murder as a cricketer. Of course, that immediately dominated social media and online portals, as there was a sense of anticipation as to what the CSK captain would reveal in the documentary.Roar of The Lion Season 1 Download.
But when you see “Dhoni Entertainment” in the first few seconds, the expectations get tempered automatically. ‘Dhoni finally breaks his silence’ — well, as much as he wants to.Roar of The Lion Season 1 Download.
Sure, this is the first time Dhoni has spoken in some detail about how tough that phase was for him. Sure, he finally did speak about the franchise being in the wrong because of Gurunath Meiyappan but finished that with a caveat: who was he, really? All the players just knew him as *the* son-in-law. (Some of us know him as a cricketing enthusiast, too.) Sure, Dhoni reveals vulnerability. How difficult it was when people assumed he was a strong person and did not ask him how he was doing. Sure, this is not as blatant a brush-it-under-the-carpet treatment to the topic as it was in the Sachin Tendulkar biopic.
But this is no bare-it-all either. This is in an environment as controlled as it can possibly be, with no real follow-up questions to find out what was done behind-the-scenes about this controversy that shook Indian cricket.In fact, what is untold in the first episode of the five-episode series is quite telling. There is a shot of Dhoni, now the Indian captain, being asked in a press conference to comment on the issue and him staying unmoved as a voice from the background says, “next question, please.”