Actress Juhi Chawla praises Mahendra Singh Dhoni following Sunday’s IPL match between the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. “Dhoni Dhoni,” the KKR co-owner yelled in response to the spectators. In August 2020, Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket and has since limited his participation to the Indian Premier League.
After the IPL game, Juhi Chawla recently lauded MS Dhoni.
Juhi stated in an interview following the game that it was expected that the sea of purple in the stands would only support the Shah Rukh Khan-owned team as Kolkata is where KKR calls home. Although KKR fans wearing purple T-shirts predominated in the crowded stadium, many spectators wearing CSK jerseys showed the same love for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his squad as they cheered for KKR. Chennai defended a huge target to hand Kolkata a rare home loss in this IPL season after a strong performance against. KKR lost to CSK by 49 runs.
Juhi Chawla, a co-owner of KKR, was delighted to watch the crowd praising Dhoni and his squad. After the KKR-CSK game, Juhi spoke with ANI and lauded MS Dhoni and the squad, stating, “Today, Chennai Super Kings performed admirably. It’s fantastic to see MS Dhoni leading the team. We aspire to accomplish what CSK recently accomplished. We believed we had arrived in Chennai when we saw so many fans cheering CSK during our next match.”
In addition to actor and co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders Juhi, Shah Rukh Khan and his daughter Suhana Khan have been spotted supporting the team recently in IPL games. A video of Shah Rukh interacting with a fan at a KKR game in Kolkata earlier this month went viral online. A wheelchair-bound Divyang devotee is greeted by Shah Rukh. Shah Rukh put a kiss on the man’s forehead as the man lauded his most recent movie, Pathan, and thanked him for attending the game. At the game between KKR and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Juhi Chawla, the actor’s daughter Suhana, and Shanaya Kapoor, the daughter of Sanjay Kapoor and Maheep Kapoor, were in attendance.