The time when Rajamouli got Star-struck!

Yes, commonly very polite and humble Jakkanna who talks without loosing his balance whatever might be the situation, he looked like he got carried away by the occasion. Well going into the details;S.S. Rajamouli was invited as the special guest to unveil M.S. Dhoni audio in Telugu. As we all know, Dhoni has become an emotion across the nation with his near perfect tactics on field and cool attire off the field. He is the man behind resurgence of Indian Team after a shock exit from 2007 World Cup. He was instrumental in guiding an all young Indian Team to the summit of inaugural T20 World Cup in the same year.

Since then, he became the captain cool, who wouldn’t much emotion but come up with necessary tactics to pull out the team from dire situations and turned around the match on it’s head.His innings of 91* in all important 2011 World Cup winning final took him to the heights of his popularity that he enjoys today. This propelled Neeraj Pandey, to make a film on the journey of this ticket collector to Indian World Cup winning captain. M.S. Dhoni the untold story. The film is releasing in Telugu, Tamil, Marathi as a dubbed version of the hindi original on 30th of September. So Rajamouli was asked to release the audio in Telugu.

At the function, Rajamouli looked highly emotional and in his speech he sounded like a big fanboy of the cricketer. He chanted the name of the cricketer along with the crowd and quipped that he would have paid 1 crore if he was asked to meet Dhoni in person.He praised Dhoni as a Karmayogi, who believes in doing work but not worried about the result. He exampled Dhoni simply handing over the Cup to his teammates and standing in a corner while even seniors like Sachin Tendulkar could not control their emotions. He thanked Neeraj Pandey for trying to peel out the thought process behind the emotion less attire that Captain cool sports on field.

His excitement was quite evident during his speech and through his body language on stage. He also said he always watched cricket from his childhood days since he started watching, even though India had many greats like Kapil Dev, Gavaskar, Azharuddin, with a fear of losing but it is the arrival of Dhoni that gave him more confidence and belief that India will never loose or will find a way to win.This statement even though true to some extent got himself trolled on social networking sites by Sachin fans, who said in his excitement to praise Dhoni the director forgot to acknowledge Sachin who used to carry whole team on his shoulders. Well, S.S. Rajamouli could have overlooked the fact and as evident could have been star-struck by the presence of game’s legend.