5 reasons why Sachin: A Billion Dreams did complete justice to Sachin Tendulkar

#2 It doesn’t shy away from showing the controversial side

Sachin was part of the Indian team through its most testing times, and he doesn’t shy away from touching upon all those passages in his life. Despite being the epicentre of Indian cricket then, Sachin managed to stay like a lotus in muck throughout the ghastly cloud of match-fixing. He expresses his disbelief at what had transpired then; a 25-year-old had given his 100% for India till then, and couldn’t digest that others hadn’t done the same.

The plight of the 1996 semi-finals in Eden Gardens, the captaincy conundrum and his shock sacking, reinstating and resigning, Sachin recollects it all. He concedes he felt really bad after getting discharged from the captaincy, for no one had even called him up to inform him. The Greg Chappell era, and his circus in the lead up to the 2007 World Cup, formed one of the darkest periods in Indian cricket. Tendulkar isn't mum about it, and instead explains elaborately how there was mistrust and zero unity in the team.

All these things add more depth to the storyline and make the presentation more compelling.