**New Delhi: Clearly not as comfortable in front of camera as behind the stumps, Team India’s new poster boy Mahendra Singh Dhoni ruled out any Bollywood venture and said he would limit his acting skills to commercials only. **
’’I know people in India follow two things very closely – cricket and Bollywood. But I don’t think I’ll ever go to Bollywood. I have done some endorsements and acted in commercials. Trust me, it’s really hard and then they take 2-3 years to make a movie,’’ said the buccaneering wicket-keeper batsman from Jharkhand in the NDTV special programme ’’India Questions’’, which will be aired in the coming weeks.
He, however, felt it was mor difficult to maintain the foothold in cricket than in Bollywood.’’Even after 10 flops there, you get to do a film and if that clicks, you are in the news there. But in cricket, 10 failures means you are well out of the scene,’’ he explained.
And the plain speaking cricketer also ruled out joining commentary after retirement.’’It’s a tough job, in fact tougher than acting. Besides, you need to keep talking for hours and so I’m not going to do that,’’ he said.Dhoni also revealed his liking for motorbikes and said he owns seven of those.
’’I like to go for long drive and drive it fast. But that doesn’t mean rash driving. It’s like a match-box, you can use and misuse it as well.’’ Dhoni’s hair is as much in the news as his batting daredevilry and the cricketer revealed he doesn’t go for a haircut during a series.’’I go for haircuts only in between two series and never during one.
I know people notice my hair and I was called Tarzan, Junglee when we toured Sri Lanka but of course I did not respond to that,’’ he said.Asked to chose between a century in the World Cup and a Test ton in Perth against real fast bowlers, Dhoni was all candour and said, ’’I would definitely go for the century in World Cup. I don’t bluff around and don’t believe in feeling something and then saying something else. Meanwhile, BCCI may not be enthused by the Twenty20 format of cricket but the hard-hitting batsman admitted that he was comfortable with the slam-bang version of the game.’’I think spectators want it. In fact, I won’t be surprised if you have Ten10 or Five5 following this Twenty20. It’s great fun, with the players’ nicknames in the t-shirt,’’ he added.
*New Delhi: Clearly not as comfortable in front of camera as behind the stumps, Team India’s new poster boy Mahendra Singh Dhoni ruled out any Bollywood venture and said he would limit his acting skills to commercials only. *
You Tarazoo walay you. How dare you say anything in shaan of Dhoni. Let Mullah Afridi saat sau chiyasee come. He will have you line main khardha karaaying and mazaydaar sa sabaq parhaaying.
Yeah.. specially if he looks the way he does in this picture.
