He sauntered into the Crystal Ballroom at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel yesterday along with his 'silver' student PV Sindhu, almost unrecognisable after he got his head tonsured recently during a visit to Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala.

Rio Olympics silver medallist along with coach Pullela Gopichand during a felicitation ceremony yesterday. Pic/Datta Kumbhar