In a media integration to promote a biopic on him, Indian Cricket ODI captain MS Dhoni said that 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’. "One thing I told Pandey (director Neeraj) is that this movie should not be to glorify me. It's about the journey of a professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict.” he said. He also said that it was slightly difficult for him to narrate his story to the filmmaker. "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. 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 further added, "I was a little worried when initially the concept of the movie came but once we were in, I was not worried about it as I was just narrating my side of the story.” Asked if he could have played the character himself, Dhoni smiled and said that acting is “very difficult job which should be left to the actors, who know what to do“. He said working as a TTE (Train Ticket Examiner) at Kharagpur railway station (in Bengal) toughened him up and made him a better person.