‘Sachin: A Billion Dreams’' creates record in collection

Mumabi: ‘Sachin: A Billion Dream', a film based on the life of India’s star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, has created a record just like the master blaster himself, being the first ever docu-drama to cross 50 million in its over-all collection in the box-office.

Released on May 26, the docudrama-biographical film completes four weeks at the Box Office, creating a new record.

While capturing Tendulkar's cricket and personal life in substantial detail, the film also reveals few aspects of his life which have never been heard of or seen before.

The movie, which featured videos from his personal collection, was dubbed in Marathi, English, Tamil, and Telugu.

"Lots of industry experts were skeptical because of the new genre we were tapping into and how it has never worked in India. But because we had the vision of portraying Sachin's story in a very pure perspective and from his vision, we stuck to it revealing his story through this genre. And we are very happy it paid off and it's become the highest grossing docudrama in the world. We are obviously happy and also overwhelmed with the response the movie has got in terms of creatives and content of the movie and how this has fulfilled the vision of keeping Sachin's legacy on for years and years to come”, Producer Ravi Bhagchandka said.

The music of the film is composed by A.R. Rahman, while lyrics are written by Irshad Kamil.

The James Erskine directed film was exempted from tax in Maharashtra, Goa, Delhi, Orissa, Kerala and Chhattisgarh.