In Ranchi, everyone you meet has their own Dhoni story from cab drivers to auto drivers to budding cricketers to the general public. The aforementioned cab driver claims to have met the former India captain and the Chennai Super Kings skipper during some late night bike rides. Then there are the limited edition cars with the name of his biopic MS Dhoni, the untold story on it.
Meanwhile, Paramjit Singh among the very few to actually know Dhoni personally for almost three decades-reveals very little. "He is the same as he was when I first knew him in 1993-94," he says with a smile as he invites us into his sports equipment shop Prime Sports.
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