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SRK vs Ganguly?

May 21st, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Times Of India is reporting today that all is not well between SRK and Ganguly. There are several reasons, and at the top of it is SRK’s insistence that Ganguly talk to the West Bengal CM to try and abolish the entertainment tax that SRK is paying for matches at Eden Gardens. Ganguly, who’s [...]

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IPL Tickets at Eden Gardens go on sale, damp response

Apr 7th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The tickets for the 7 matches at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens went on sale today, but were met with less than enthusiastic response. Admittedly, the tickets were on sale today only to the association members, but there are still 31,000 of them. Only 239 of them showed up.
This may also have to do with the legal [...]

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SRK getting deeper into trouble over Eden Gardens

Apr 4th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

With less than 2 weeks to go for the kick off of the IPL, things are not looking good at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, home of the KnightRiders. First, there was this problem over the issue of the tickets, and now comes the latest news that the stadium itself has not been confirmed for the matches.
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SRK dragged to court over Kolkata IPL tickets

Mar 27th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

It seems SRK should be named “Should Remain Kontroversial”, ’cause controversy seems to follow him everywhere. The latest news is that SRK has been dragged into controversy involving the tickets at the Eden Gardens for the IPL matches. Cricket Members Forum of Bengal, which is the bunch of elitest members of the Eden Gardens, basically [...]

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Kolkata Police to charge for Secutity

Mar 25th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Kolkata police want to send SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment that owns the Kolkata team a bill for organizing security for all the IPL matches that will be played at Eden Gardens. They even had a meeting, apparently, at the headquaters where they discussed parking, traffic and other stuff. There are no details, however, on [...]

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SRK to fix Indian Hockey (but after making money from IPL)

Mar 18th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

After the spectacular debacle of Indian Hockey that saw the doors to its olympic dreams shut for the first time in 80 years, has got SRK’s attention. The ever publicity-hungry Shahrukh Khan today came out in support of Indian Hockey, urging everyone to stop the blame game and get down to fixing the problem. SRK, [...]

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“Knight Riders”? Really?

Mar 12th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Teams, Top Stories

I know this is really immature and all, but KnightRiders is an absolutely ridiculous name for a cricket team. It sounds so kiddish. Do you folks remember the serial KnightRider that used to come on DD in the 90s? The one with the talking car? So cheesy. And I can’t imagine why SRK would go [...]

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SRK postpones his TV show

Mar 11th, 2008 | By sandeeps | Category: News

It seems Shah Rukh Khan’s next innings on Television ‘Panchavi Pass’ will be delayed by a few months, courtesy IPL. According to oneindia.in report, the actor who owns Kolkata franchise is in a dilemmna because his brand new quiz show might clash telecast of IPL cricket matches.
The report also indicates that this has kicked off [...]

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SRK keen on Philanthrophy to calm critics ?

Feb 29th, 2008 | By sandeeps | Category: News

Owner of IPL’s Kolkata franchise Shah Rukh Khan has been recently involved in war of words with many people whether it was for promoting his movie in a cricket match or for the smoking issue with health minister Anbumani Ramadoss. The latest is with respect to cricket in a public function for the inauguration of [...]

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