Shahrukh Khan is a big fan of football, but the superstar has revealed how he refused to be a part of the Indian Super League (ISL) for not being able to buy the Kolkata franchise.
Khan co-owns IPL’s Kolkata Knight Riders, who have gone on to win the IPL trophy twice in 7 years. He fell in love with the city of Kolkata and decided to own the ISL football team too. He met everyone possible, but was offered every other team apart from Kolkata, he refused.
“It’s very unfortunate and sad for me.. I very much wanted to be part of the ISL and own a football team. But there was no way that I would have Kolkata. And if I can’t have Kolkata, then I am not playing football for any other city or state” SRK told the media. (Article continued after the image)
Shahrukh Khan
“I remember, I met everyone but could not get Kolkata. I was offered every other team but I said no I don’t want it. If I don’t get Kolkata as the football team, then I don’t want to play football in my life” he added.
SRK also said that the reason why he bought the cricket team was because he thought it would later extend into football.
“I took to IPL because I was told that it will later extend into soccer and I love football. If you love football, you have to play for Kolkata and no other city. All my love to Mumbai because I am from there, my love to Delhi because I was born there but the team to back is Kolkata” he said.
He went to the extent of saying that Kolkata is now his home city.
“Even today when I was flying down here, I felt sad that I don’t have Kolkata. But it is in better hands than me when Dada (cricket legend Saurav Ganguly) is doing it. Dada is more deserving and I wish him and rest of the owners all the best and hope they win the championship.” he concluded.
posting my predictions for the ques dat which movie will break the records of d3(lifetime)
i think lets keep rais,krrish4,prdp out of r sight as dey will come very late
pk- the genre!!!the only problem.opening will be exellent.n if story is liked by masses(by masses) then it will surely break!!
week 2 of pk will be superb!!
bajrangi bhaijan- dont know the story!!but lately bcoz of jai ho salman ‘s popularity has gone a little bit down.but still bb has the strongest chance to break this record.massy entertainer,sallu,n a okay okay story will be enough i think!!
okay okay story means a story on par with wanted or dabangg 2.
FAN- i think it will be finest film of srk lately!!if it will be an entertainer and not of more dan 2 hr 30 mins den it will surely break
@bulli ROFL!
I hope North east or Kerela wins.
im sure here also there is a ruse.. apparantely he is trying to evoke sentiments of bengali people in whose state his film is not doing really well!!
just wants to show his love to a particular state..trying out all the arsenal in his bag to get some people to the theatres
One Srk fan calling Mamta Banerjee as Prime Minister. n Still they call Salman fans as mindless or brainless !!!!!!!!!!!!
@hrithik as for ur logic if he cant buy a local team then he also cant buy awards.. means all his awards r deserving… anf pls dnt talk about his power. His awards are more than ur greek dog plus his calculator papa g
@ ur logic make no sense… if ppl want to go to theatre, no body can stop them and if they dnt want to go then no body can force them so keep ur riksha wala comments with urself..lol
@MirdonKing you just made my day with this epic line “…..Even Prime Minister Mamata Didi Respect Him Like his Sister :)) ”
Jahanpanaa tussi great ho!! Tohfa qubool karo!!! :D
a born lier,a publicity hunger over actor.he loves kolkata thats why there is not a single bengal player in kolkata knight rider.when he brought kolkata ipl team,he uses sourav’s popularityand always utterd ‘dada dada’.when he dont need sourav,he dont respect him in a single word.rather he is now uttering ‘didi didi’ for gain popularity.
@khan : Sports Authorities are not Filmfare organization. His fans always chants about his powers so just asked them a simple question which none of the Srk fan able to answer it !!!!!!!!!!!