Posts Tagged ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’

Stars do strange things for film promotions. And during the pre & post-release they are also asked to be in their character! Say, see, act, behave, believe in what your character does in the film. And so Shah Rukh Khan had to bear the baggage of Rizwan Khan for My Name Is Khan. He could not go against it. The controversy followed and now it seems there is no end in sight.

The latest one involves the other Rizwan. Remember Rizwanur Rahman. He was married to Priyanka, Ashok Todi’s daughter and the Todi family was against the marriage. Few days later, his dead body was found near the railway tracks. The promoters of Lux Cozi innerwear, owned by Ashok Todi, were accused in abetting the suicide of Rizwanur Rahman.  Here is the wiki link to the complete story of Rizwanur Rahman. And more here. Also you can visit www.rizwanur.com . Do read.

And here is the connect. Shah Rukh Khan is the brand ambassador of Lux Cozi. Lux was supposed to sponsor the uniform of SRK’s team Kolkata Knight Riders. So, Rizwan’s team would wear uniform sopnsored by Rizwanur’s murderers ? And you expect Bongs to accept it and cheer for the same team! Unlike the intelligentsia in Maharashtra whose voice we havent heard much on the marathi manoos issue, thank God, even with their laziness, Bengali intelligentsia hasnt lost their sane voice! Amidst protests, Shah Rukh Khan has decided to call off the cozy deal. Great!

But if we are not wrong (we would be happy to be proved wrong though), Lux will be part of KKR’s off field merchandise. Come on Mr Khan, why play hide & seek ? You can easily let go few crores! For all the gyaan that you spread and the books & authors names you rattle off at 5am in the morning, does all this boils down to only business ? You surely can do better!

srk-kkrAccoring to this report in Rediff, Shah Rukh Khan has decided to exit Kolkata Knight Riders. Yes, finally! It seems the actor has already started talking to various companies to sell the team that he just bought a year ago for Rs 300 crore. 

Reasons ? Losses. On field and off field.

On field – welll, Kolkata Knight Riders team are at the bottom of the score card. This is what happens when you have too many heads and ego issues in the team. And only one man is responsible for messing it all. Shah Rukh Khan.

Off filed –  Here is the calculation according to Rediff…

Khan is supposed to pay Rs 30 crore per year for the next 10 years. The total annual cost for the team is about Rs 75 crore. 

To settle the dispute between Kolkata Police and the IPL organisers over the cost of security arrangements at Eden Gardens, Red Chillies Entertainment had to agree to pay Rs 75 lakhs as security fees.

Khan had earlier said that KKR was easily the most successful IPL franchise, making a Rs 13 crore profit last year. However, his costs trebled last year owing to interventions from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Cricket Association of Bengal.

Red Chillies had to pay Rs 90 lakhs per match and was supposed to earn Rs 3 crore if all stadium tickets were sold at Eden Gardens. Red Chillies had to pay Rs 20 lakhs to the police and municipal tax of Rs 500,000. So its expenses per match would have been over Rs 1 crore. But this figure had trebled.

Last year,  Kolkata Police demanded Rs 2 crore as security fees, against Rs 50 lakhs that the organisers of the IPL offered. Then, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation demanded Rs 25 lakhs from Red Chillies as amusement tax for holding IPL matches at Eden Gardens.

Its much easier for Shah Rukh Khan to make money by dancing at weddings!

Finally! After criticising every celeb blogger for doing the job what journalists should be doing, Shah Rukh Khan has finally joined the club. As the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, who have been facing criticism from all quarters, Shah  Rukh Khan has finally decided to make his views public. His blog can be found at www.kkr.in. The first two posts read more like motivational speeches and less of blog! Looks like he is still playing the role of Kabir Khan from Chak De India!

Well we can understand why.  Firstly, the bad performance of the team and add to that, the mayhem created by  fakeiplyplayer who is leaking out every possible detail about the team. Khansaab must be going insane. Too much to handle!

For those of you who love lil’ bit of philosophy, here is Theodore Roosevelt’s quote as put up by Shah Rukh Khan on his blog…

It is not the critic who counts;

    Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

    Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

    The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

    Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

    Who strives valiantly;

    Who errs, who comes short again and again,

    Because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

    But who does actually strive to do deeds;

    Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

    Who spends himself in a worthy cause;

    Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

    And who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

    So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who

    neither know

    Victory nor Defeat.