Director Venkat Prabhu drops major hint on MS Dhoni appearing in high-profile Tamil film

Venkat Prabhu and MS Dhoni. (Source – Twitter/X)

Directed by the renowned Venkat Prabhu and featuring the perenially popular Thalapathy aka Vijay, The Greatest Of All Time (marketed as GOAT) might just feature former India luminary and World Cup-winning captain, MS Dhoni, in the film.

There has been an intensified buzz going around the ardent fraternity of supporters of Kollywood after the director of the film revealed in an interview that there is a scene in which a snippet of a match involving the Chennai Super Kings will be presented.

“We are featuring a CSK match in a scene in the GOAT movie – you know who will make an appearance on the screen…,” stated Venkat in a recent interview.

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The film is slated to theatrically release on September 5, 2024, in standard and IMAX formats. The comment made about Dhoni has ignited a burst of conjecturing and elation among his supporters, despite Dhoni’s role remaining scarce and hazy at the moment.   

The film, GOAT is a big-budget Tamil science-fiction film with an estimated budget of ₹300 – 400 crore that involves elements of time travel. Vijay plays a double role as both father and son in the film, and the movie is expected to earn big bucks at the box office on release. The film entails a majestic cast including Prabhu Deva, Sneha, Laila, Jayaram, and Yogi Babu. One of the main themes of the film is time travel.

Interestingly, Dhoni has never made an appearance in a film before. However, he has a biopic “M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story”, a 190-minute sports/drama film that was released in 2016. The lead actor playing Dhoni’s character was Sushant Singh Rajput. The duo of Dhoni and Sakshi Dhoni have also produced a Tamil romantic-comedy film directed by Ramesh Thamilmani in his directorial debut last year.