Biopic doesn't glorify me but shows my journey: Dhoni

He wanted the biopic on him to show his journey, the inherent struggles in "decision making processes" rather than "glorify him" and that's precisely what Mahendra Singh Dhoni told film's director Neeraj Pandey during the conceptual phase of 'MS Dhoni-The Untold Story'.

In the United States along with wife Sakshi and producer Arun Pandey (whose firm manages Dhoni) to promote his film, which is due to release worldwide on September 30, Dhoni spoke about his life and the transformation from a talented small town boy to one of India's most respected captain.

"One thing I told Pandey is that this movie should not glorify me. It's about the journey of a professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict," Dhoni told reporters in New York during film's promotional event. Being a person who likes to live in the present, it was "difficult" for him to go back into his life and narrate his story to Pandey for the movie.

He said the first time he saw the movie, an unedited version, he relived his past again as memories of his childhood, where he lived and how he played flooded his mind. "All those things that had happened became fresh in my memory – from where I lived, how my school was, where we played. I went blank," said Dhoni.

"It was nice to be in the past for a moment and you get a view of what others think about me. I have never talked to my parents about cricket and it was nice to get a glimpse of what they really thought about me," he said.