MS Dhoni tells Mandira Bedi the most ‘difficult’ thing about acting; reveals why daughter Ziva loves him: ‘Papa is money’

Dhoni added that he is a director’s actor. He said, “It’s very difficult to remember your lines. I always say I’ll do what the director will say, if it’s not good, it is the problem of the director and not me.”

The cricketer also spoke about the experience of becoming a father to daughter Ziva. Dhoni and his wife Sakshi Dhoni, were blessed Ziva in February 2015, when the cricketer was away in Australia for ICC World Cup 2015.

Dhoni shared, “The first time I picked her (Ziva) up, she must have been two and a half months old, and she made a lot of noise. That was the first time she was seeing me. I don’t know whether she saw me as they say that kids who are one or two months old, can’t see. But for full 5 minutes, she was giggling and making noises and Sakshi was like, ‘She has never done it. I don’t know why is she doing it.”

The former Indian skipper said that the feeling of becoming a parent cannot be described in words. He added that from the day Ziva is born till now, she has been quite inquisitive, and keeps asking questions. He also shared that now when someone asks her why she loves her father, she replies, “Because, papa is money”.

Dhoni recently turned a film producer. He has produced a light-hearted Tamil family drama titled LGM aka Let’s Get Married.