February 09, 2012 Y. Sunita Chowdary
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Even if the story is a lovely gift to the director, it is tiringly predictable and generic and that is the major flaw. When you go to Dhoni you can anticipate a familiar structure, especially if you have seen something like 3 Idiots, 3 Idiots again (Snehitudu), 3 Idiots (Nanban) where the emphasis is the passing on the message on not burdening the student with something that he doesn't like and allowing him to bloom with a subject or a hobby of his/her choice.
Most part of the film works well, it has a sensible yet sensitive subject of a middle class widower squeezing his budget to bring up his two children and giving them the best of both the worlds from a father and a mother's point of view. It is clearly Prakash Raj all the way who does a decent job but wonder why in most part of the film towards the end instead of showing his retribution, focuses on absolving his action..trying to be free from guilt though we know what the system does to most people and is very equalising.
Dhoni releases at a time when Yuvraj is battling with cancer and Dhoni is grappling with his form, it is a perfect picture of hope and redemption but the focus is directed more at pointing the faults of the parent. Prabhu Deva is not needed at all in the smooth running story, especially in the first half of the story. Radhika Apte has to give a reason for sleeping around, and the sob story is another cliché, women still can't sleep for fun and that is not acceptable to middle class families.
The dialogues are particularly good with light-hearted humour thrown in, the best scene is Prakash Raj squatting to teach his son Math and losing temper and hitting the child. Nasser spoke volumes without a dialogue in one of the episodes with a mere stare at Prakash Raj. Akash did a reasonably good job. One tends to lose interest from the talk show onwards and as mentioned there is nothing new or thrilling about that warrants your attention. Dhoni is just an okay watch.
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