As we entered the Bioscope Village, a tent-pole cinema, temporarily created for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, the collective chants across the venue made it seem like we were at a political rally. If you heard closely, the audiences weren't screaming, "Modi, Modi, Modi." They were in fact yelling something sounding similar -- "Dhoni, Dhoni, Dhoni" -- looking at actor Sushant Singh Rajput, whose performance as India's top cricketer MS Dhoni on screen, remains his best known work yet. Also the crowd, a lot of them kids, had returned from a show of Neeraj Pandey's MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, held right before.

Sushant Singh Rajput