The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current ODI and T20I captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Fox Star Studiosdistributes the film and produced it jointly with Inspired Entertainment and Arun Pandey, in association with Friday Film Works.

The film features Sushant Singh Rajput as Dhoni and Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher in supporting roles.

A teaser trailer was released on 15 March 2016, on conjunction with the commencement of 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

The movie follows the journey of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a budding cricketer from Ranchi becoming the most successful captain ofIndian Cricket Team.

Amaal Mallik has composed the Soundtrack for M.S. Dhoni. Rochak Kohli has also composed one song as a Guest Composer.

T-Series has acquired the music rights for the film. The album consisting of 8 songs features the voices of singers Armaan Malik,Arijit Singh, Siddharth Basrur, Rochak Kohli and Palak Muchhal.

The film will be dubbed and simultaneously released in Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages.

The film is scheduled to be released on 30 September 2016.

Cricketer MS Dhoni and actor Sushant Singh during the trailer launch of film MS Dhoni.