Imagine a whole paltan of clients walking into your hotel, especially when they are fuming at your rival! Now imagine those clients are none other than Dhoni and Co, accompanied by top BCCI officials and Big Boss N Srinivasan strutting in too! “Oh heaven be blessed,†would have been what officials at Taj Krishna would have mouthed!
Cut to the security officials, who would have been busy calling out to Satan in Hell, cursing him under their breaths, muttering expletives that would put all the rowdies to shame! You ask why? Because one fine day, suddenly, a usually  true blue Dhoni suddenly turned all red, and decided to stage a walkout from Grand Hotel Kakatiya and whisk his entire team to Taj Krishna instead. Who’s the culprit? Sinfully taste-bud tickling home-cooked biryani from Ambati Rayudu’s kitchen. You say, ‘no’? Check with a stumped-out Grand Hotel Kakatiya staff, if you wish to verify.
Food, is the motive behind our lives. We work oh-so-hard, just to ensure that we have platefuls of fat-breeding, cholesterol-baking, melt-in-our-mouths, little spoonfuls of heaven-ish experience laid in front of us. Four-square. Not asking for too much, are we? This, especially when we are talking about hot-shot cricketers, who work round the clock, to earn, just about enough to take care of their whimsical desires. Live out of your suitcase for most part of the year, and you too will stage a walkout from wherever in the world you are, if a beautifully packed hot piping box of home-cooked food is mercilessly snatched away, inches away from your mouths. Imagine!
Grand Hotel has rules: no outside food allowed. But then, homecooked food is ‘inside’ food, isn’t it? At least, that was what the logic would have been in Dhoni’s mind. Grand Hotel said, nothing doing and Dhoni’s love for ghar ka khana got the better of him, so much, that he decided to go the nahi chalegaway, vacating all the 180 rooms that were checked and booked for them!
So, all the procedures that had to be carried out at Grand Hotel Kakatiya before accommodating these big guns had to be repeated at Taj Krishna, with time that would have made even Maggi go the Anna Hazare way!
The mums must be smiling. Next time, duur kahin gaon mein, when some kid throws a tantrum about not eating mum-made food, Dhoni would be remembered, and kids would be threatened with him whisking the food, and the mum away!