Shahrukh Khan… seems like he realized some facts!!! Still I aprreciate his courage!!!

In the last 30 days, I bet, if you open IBN live one of the first few lines would be about the magnanimous IPL tournament. I am enjoying it too even though Deccan Chargers could not make even a comparable performance in the tournament. There have been controversies all over the place, starting with the Bhajji-Sreeshanth Slap, the Cheer Girls issue, the umpiring issues, the Maliya Issue, Yuvraj Singh taking on the Mumbai crowd and many other small issues here and there.

Among all this there has been one silent yet publicizing personality who’s efforts need to be commended and criticized too. The reason I say that is very straight forward because the way Shahrukh said he is not going to attend any matches of the IPL anymore raises a simple doubt. If Kolkata Knight Riders qualified for the semi-finals or if they still had of qualifying to the semi-finals would he still give this statement and stick to it. I wouldn’t think so. The statement that he is gonna boycott all the IPL matches came right after the fact that Kolkata’s match against Delhi was washed out. That washed out even the sneakiest chances of KKR qualifying to the semi-finals. Bang came the statement. Wahh SRK, you have awesome timing.

In his interview with IBN-LIVE, along with Dada, “King with Dada” was the name of the episode I guess. In that episode, SRK was at his acting best. If there was an award for the best acting award for leading male in a interview he would have won it for sure. These are some of the words he said in the interview,

“I do not know even a single number in this entire tournament. I do not know what money the company is making from the team and I do not know what money we are spending on the team.” Why did he sack 5 players to save the money if he did not count any numbers. Did someone tell him in his dream to sack them, well he does not get enough sleep too, to get a dream.

“All I know is to keep the KKR team happy. And I will do anything to keep them happy.”

“Even at an age of 106 Saurav Ganguly will be the captain of KKR.” I think he said some dialouge similar to this in the shoot that evening. Every single word he uttered in that interview was so artificial. You can check the interview in IBN-LIVE at this link:

http://www.cricketnext.com/videos/31658/im-a-cheerleader-who-wears-long-pants-srk.html

Followed by this talk with IBN-LIVE which dramatized to the core, he comes up with an SMS talking about wins and loses to the Cricketers. Here is that link, again a very dramatic and cinematic SMS. Check it at:

http://www.cricketnext.com/news/srk-sends-an-emotional-sms-to-his-knights/31753-13.html

I really appreciated the way he picked up the most fragile team and location as his team. Fragile here I meant the kind of support the Kolkata crowd is know for. He needs courage to do that, he needs great courage and he took that brave step. He started of with great ad-campaign, he got the first few sponsor’s. Everyone thought he made the wisest decision in investing in Kolkata, but he might have now realized that acting in movie and managing a cricket team is not the same. The most crucial point that I feel he needs to realize is that he should not give speeches to everyone as if he is acting in a movie like Chak De India.

So thats what I feel guys, Mr. Shahrukh has done a great job in selecting the team and the initial marketing of the team but has he carried the team forward in the right spirit? Did he realize some facts about Kolkata team and specially great Dada??? Lets see what the end of IPL teaches us…

Yours Chaitanya.