Paying tribute to Tagore
The Kolkata Knight Riders no longer have place for cheerleaders in their entourage, and many thought the absence of some pretty faces will reduce the glitz. But the Shah Rukh Khan-owned outfit has instead chose to embrace the Bengali culture, asking the singers to recite Rabindranath Tagore's poems and other Bengali songs.
It has become a hit with the local spectators, especially when the State is celebrating the 147th birth anniversary of Tagore. SRK too joined the singers to lend his voice at the Eden Gardens on Thursday much to the excitement of locals.
SRK son in Katrina’s car!
The recent performances of the Knight Riders might already have given some anxious moments to franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan. But the Bollywood superstar and his wife Gauri Khan went through some tense moments on Thursday, when their son Aryan Khan was missing for a few minutes at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose airport.
The frightened parents immediately mounted a search and found their son from a most unlikely place – from the car of tinsel town beauty and Bangalore Royal Challengers' ambassador Katrina Kaif, who has also travelled with the Khan Khandan from Mumbai. Brand loyalty is probably a too hard a term to be understood by an 11-year old!
‘Nothing to do with cheergirls’
BCCI president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the Board had nothing to do with the cheerleaders, who have earned their fair share of attention and criticism in the ongoing Indian Premier League. “The girls have been brought by the franchisees and BCCI is in no way concerned with the whole exercise,” he said when reporters drew his attention to the controversy surrounding the scantily-clad cheerleaders at IPL venues.
Advani, Lalu cheer Daredevils
They were cheerleaders of a different kind. Ideologically poles apart, BJP leader L K Advani and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad were seen on the same side, cheering the Delhi Daredevils team at the Ferozeshah Kotla.
Advani and Prasad, on opposite sides in Parliament, shared space in the VIP box. Prasad was at the stadium with his family, including his son Tejaswi Yadav, who is a member of the Daredevils team.
