So, Chittu makes quite a revelation when he says that there was a time when Dhoni was close to the local journalists. ‘It was in my house where he would often call them over after each of his early cricketing feats, and I have served chai to them myself. But the reactions after the 2007 World Cup and a few unsavoury comments changed everything. After winning the World T20, he didn’t bother about them and came straight home from the airport,’ Chittu says.