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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar: The boy who became god

Sachin: A Billion Dreams marvellously captures how one man stormed an entire nation's conscience

Sachin Tendulkar: A Billion Dreams
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Sachin Tendulkar: A Billion Dreams

Dhruv Munjal
A quick-witted Twitter user recently chose to point out how every Sachin Tendulkar interview is akin to the FAQ section of a website. In Tendulkar’s fanatically adulatory world, each word is almost charily thought over — no sentiments are ever hurt, no enemies ever spawned. Over the years, his personal life has been quite the staid antithesis of his cricket, devoid of the dauntlessness that typified his batting. 

Soothingly, Sachin: A Billion Dreams is different, but only just. Tendulkar, as the narrator of this docu-drama directed by James Erskine (Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist and Shooting for Socrates), lets