Ka Ka ka Ka ...KKR

Every thing that happens in and out of KKR has a tinge of filmy touch to it. Call it the auction or the Cheer leader walk in :) or for that matter the notorious blog that stirred the cricket fanatics couple of years ago like nothing; KKR gives a tough comepetion to the likes of Parris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan each year in terms of controversies. And why not? If your frontline co-owner is the Badshah of bollytown and the skipper carries a ‘who the heck cares’ attitude on his shirts all the time, then you are bound to have symptoms like that. Filminess is not leaving KKR on the 4th version of IPL also, I doubt whether it has any chance of leaving.

Sourav is a peculiar kind of name, which has adhesiveness to it. I think Fevicol should brand Ganguly for their product. This man plays or does not play, speaks or decides to stay mum and moot; he will make his space on Page 10, 1 and sometimes on Page 3.

KKR kicked his butt this time around, so drama was on the cards, and it happened. Though Ganguly has officially spoken just one sentence in media, like ‘I am shocked’, but newspapers are not leaving him, neither Mr. Shahrukh Khan. To resurrect the outcome, SRK suddenly found a new brother in Ganguly. Ironically he has no idea what a Bengali phrase ‘Bhai hoyeche’ means. Is SRK getting sarcastically extravagant or was he taking a stringent course on Bengali urban dictionary to learn slangs or was there any high voltage “Locha” of Mr.Chandi Ganguly in the past years that we don’t know, are another string of questions, but the main Query lies in this one- ‘What is the source of this extreme energy of KKR, which encourages them to create such a havock in media all the time, but goes missing on the field?” And what would happen to this anti-SRK group (like me) when KKR starts to win like Mumbai did last year, but ultimately looses in Final. Who knows about the game played behind the game?

BCCI struggled a lot through the Modi exclusion process; they don’t want any more controversies around IPL this time I guess. If they can remove cheer leaders(i cen bet many go to ground to see these call girl turned dancers, but not cricket) and post match gala parties from the menu, then what so fuss in excluding an ageing cricketer?. They know, it’s a big fish to take out of the pond, but it also makes sure, that he will not eat up the smaller ones, at least when fish harvesting will start.

SRK is more like the character of Jahar Ray in the Bengali movie “Dhanni Meye”. Remember those dialogues “Graam er Baire shield ami Jete debona, Bole chilam na”. Other co-owners are like those pros sitting on both sides of Jahar Ray, who does not have any say or no one cares what they say. SRK is lunatic in terms of competition. He does not want to loose. It’s not in his blood. Remember how he gave his all for an Oscar entry after Aamir made it through ‘Lagan’. These three years must be very painful for him, loosing against his female counter parts who made debuts with him. That's humiliation for a character of his stature, he must be eating his nails, crecesndos must be longer and deeper on his face. Actually SRK is hardly beautiful, beauty lies on his contours of face, the carves and dips he creates on his face while talking. The super chain smoker, wanted to clear the picture in front of his eyes this time, it was getting hazy day by day. Let it be on 4th, if not in 1st, 2nd and 3rd.! But the mistake he made was he had never cared for the cushion. If he were seen declaring officially that KKR is not taking Ganguly this time, it would have surely worked like a shock absorber for many. He didn’t. Backlash was there to be taking, and he has to eat his doings now.

Ganguly on the other hand is like Neeta (Supriya) of Ritwick Ghatak’s masterpiece ‘Meghe Dhaka tara’. Finding his daughter suffering in tuberculosis, Neeta’s father asks Neeta to leave the house and says “Tui Choilla Jah Maa, Jaago Jonne tui eto Kichu korli sara Jibon, Jago Nijer paay e Dar korai li, aaj Tarai tore Koruna kore, Tui Choilla Jaa’. Sounds tragic, but only for those who see it on celluloid. There are people in this world, who does not mind getting regretted, because that’s pretty common to their living. They have seen and faced it all. I think Ganguly has seen it all too. I don’t think he is too perturbed about all that’s happening around his name. He knows no matter how many come backs he has made in his life in the past, he can’t repeat it any more. He knows the full stop has arrived in his cricketing career, so better to leave the place that he once built by his hands

Last character must be Indian public. World cup could be a spoiler for IPL. IPL4 is in a win win situation; I must say. If India looses will Indian public have enough patience to see another big tournament again? Questionable. I don’t know what would happen to the excitement of all those who are desperate(including me) to make a point against KKR and ban IPL, then :)