Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Day 5 - Jourmey

I have a few things to share about Dubai on the way back to home.
I was looking for a subject to write in that day's blog when I suddenly noticed Dhoni in the duty free - yeah you are right, our very own Dhoni.
He was shopping alone with some HOT girl 0 may be 20 or 21 with an attitude like Winehouse. They were happy and gay (ok now i cant use that for a team sportperson when i sighted him like that). So they were happy until I noticed who that guy was in Prada shades at 2 AM in an enclosed complex. i was with a friend and we went up to him to have a chat and a snap clicked with the most popular cricketer amongst the girls. He was calm, warm, no celeb attitude, and conversing in good young hinglish. And that grew attention of fellow passengers. Soon he was flocked by Indians, locals, Sri lankans and I could see the authorities getting worried about it.
We were in Dubai and things were control in a minute, but the best part was i was with Dhoni on the other side of the police controlled crowd.
Got a snap with him, not my biggest achievements, but one thing that impacted me was his behavior towards his fans - absolutely commendable, down to earth and communicative more than photographic.
I would remember this incident because of how different he is projected in news media. From a non Dhoni fan, he's on the list of my favs : Sachin, Sourav, Lara and Pollock. Yeah thats an elite list but he finds it there for his attitude more than his cricket.
Its hard to bear such an attitude when you are being scrutinized by each pair of eyes in public and you are the highest paid sportsperson in a country of a billion.

DO NOT JUDGE SOMEBODY BY WHAT news channels suggest but everybody who has heard of Udayan Mukherjee would know, you can trust that guy blindly - Making millions the easy way.

Shashank

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Cool...so finally dubai turned out to be fruitful for u OR was Dhoni lucky? (u have agreed to be his fan)
u should have posted ur photograph with the article.

Anonymous said...

hmm... i m yet to get the photo... its on a friend;s mobile... and I think dhoni was lucky...