More than 1.5 million likes in less than 24 hours. That is what a quiet Diwali post from Sakshi Singh Dhoni collected on Instagram on Sunday, Gulf News reported, after she shared three family photographs from the festival of lights under a caption that read simply “Happy Diwali”.
The images, showing Sakshi, her husband MS Dhoni and their daughter Ziva in traditional attire, went viral within hours. The comments underneath were overwhelmingly thank-yous aimed at Sakshi.
“Seeing Thala is the real diwali gift,” one fan wrote in a thread of reactions highlighted by the outlet, using the affectionate nickname by which Dhoni is known to his supporters.
Three photos, one caption
The cricketer appeared in a light green kurta beside his wife in a black ethnic outfit, according to AajTak, with one frame catching Sakshi planting a kiss on his cheek. All three members of the family wore tilaks on their foreheads for the occasion, India TV noted, smiling in what the outlet called a serene, home-centered celebration.
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No sponsor plug, no hashtag campaign, no behind-the-scenes clip. A wife, a husband, a daughter, and a two-word greeting. The scale of the reaction, measured against the simplicity of what was actually shared, is the story.
A retirement that hasn’t quieted the crowd
Dhoni has largely kept his private life off social media since stepping back from international cricket. Gulf News noted that the former India captain rarely features in public social media posts, which helps explain why a glimpse of him at home, in a kurta, with his family around him, lands with the force of a scoop.
That is the tone running through the comments on Sakshi’s post, many of them pushing thanks in her direction rather than his, grateful for the rare window into a household she usually keeps closed.
