No more celebrations for KKR, innocent people were hurt: Captain

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir has slammed the celebrations at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata saying he has had enough of it, and if the team does win in the future, there would be no such celebrations.

“I must say I was disappointed by the inconvenience KKR’s felicitation ceremony caused to Kolkatans. As it is cricket fans in India, who are the most important stake-holders, are not treated well.” the KKR captain said in his final blog for Hindustan Times.

“To make matters worse there was lathicharge on innocents. God-willing my KKR team wins many more trophies but as far as I am concerned we’re done with such felicitations.” he added.

A huge crowd of more than a lakh people had gathered both inside and outside the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, where VVIP’s like Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee were in attendance.

When the situation got out of control, the police officials lathicharged to maintain the law and order situation, which resulted in women and children getting hurt.

However, West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim dismissed the incident by tweaking one of Shahrukh Khan’s most famous dialogues “Badi-badi events mein chhoti-chhoti baatein hoti rehti hain” he said, literally mocking the people hurt in the incident.

Some photos from outside the Eden Gardens.

Police on horses lathicharging the public

Police on horses lathicharging the public

Crowd hurt outside Eden Gardens

Crowd hurt outside Eden Gardens

Lathicharge Eden Gardens

Lathicharge Eden Gardens

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49 Comments

  • Stopping celebrations will hurt the ppl even more. Its not their fault the crowd got wild and disobeyed the rules. Kolkata was also the same place where a world cup semi final between india n sri lanka was abandoned cos of the wild behavior of the crowd so shows the fans there can get wild

  • shame on srk.. why the hell he needs to show off everytime.. its just an IPL tournament his team has won n not a world cup.. other teams have too won the IPL but i have never seen them showing off like srk.. just for his show off innocent people were hurt.. disgusting.. n srk didn’t even care to apologise.. even KKR’s captain seems to have had enough of srk’s show off.. feeling so sad n disturbed seeing the above pics

  • they only win an ipl trophy I dont know why kkr celebrated like this.even when India won world cup they didnt celebrated like this and lastly how could Indian pepole vote this kind of pepole who dont know what to speak on such issue.

  • I also think the crowd was at fault. The security did what they had to. People were supposed to obey the rules.

  • I said this thing earlier….

    They could have celebrated within themselves throwing a huge party….why to involve people in just an IPL win…it was’nt anything revoutionary,every year one or the other team wins it

  • So sad that our dear Srk fans r lathicharged by the police by sitting in horse the same way Srk sits on horse in Baazigar and it will be no surprise if we come to know that some of his fans who regularly comments here were also lathicharged in above pictures.lol

  • @hamza khan, i wonder what would have been you comment if you were lathicharged and your eye had swollen lol.

  • Fr the information I wanna one thing….
    This event was managed by westbengal government nd Bengal cricket board not by SRK…He was jast a owner nd a guest of Govt……
    u people who r hatting SRK r always being always drunk….

  • Why people are blaming SRK ??? SRK didn’t arranged the ceremony.Its the state gov who arranged the ceremony…..When shiv sena workers closes Maharastra for 2 days the haters were happy because SRK is suffering loss in JTHJ and when SRK is invited to a gov organised celebration for winning IPL and the crowd geta hurt everyone starts blaming SRK….Morons blame the politicians who created the whole mess….the public were desparate to get in despite the police holding them back and the politicians let them in and the situation got worse…..the police forcefully lathicharged…..Where is SRK in it ???

  • @JS — When people identifies SALMAN in drunk driving case you bhai fans shouts to hang those people who identified your bhai…..and now you are teaching us what is SHAME and SHAMELESSNESS…

  • @BABAJI — How many times I have to say that SRK didn’t organised this celebration ???? SRK had his party bash privately….its the state government who brought this publicly.

  • The main fault is here was the over dramatic self obsessed CM of west bengal, what is the need of this kind of unnecessary event when you don’t have proper security. In other article of earlier published srk fans commented the real star who cares for his fan unlike Salman who beat them. Now what they Say srk is simply responsible for all this drama’s where were those who saying public came to see srk only. What happen they beaten and lathicharged like they were living in british raj before Independence. Pathetic morons. The guy who led beautifully to make KKR won title twice. Gambhir is the same guy who made 75 in t20 wc final in 2007 and 97 in 2011 final. The man who played his two best knock in two wc final and result we won world cup. A low key player but a champion nevertheless. Only for this guy i wished kkr should play well and they did. Hats off Gambhir to come forward and said something after all who can know what the real win in cricket and for indians.

  • thanks goodness KKR was not in charge by Salman, otherwise fans would have been lathicharged by zooming cars!

  • @haters
    Why to blame srk for the celebrations…….you can blame and criticize officials and government for lack of facilities and bad arrangements….and you are asking what was the need of celebrations??????????A crowd of lakh plus people is the answer……….whole kolkatta was wanting this……..incident should not be happened but this isnt fault of srk

  • @sachin11 I was hoping “sss khan” was present but his disappearance today may suggest he was there so maybe he was ‘tragically’ subjected to lathi….

    Heres hoping police successfully ID’d him n gave him his fair share of punishment…!

  • The pictures depicts & looks like pre-independence when British soldiers sitting on horses & lashing poor people!!!!! whats more funny is so called Global king was dancing n enjoying himself inside the stadium without any care !!!!!!!

  • SRK is facilitated by Cricket association of bengal, srk dint facilitate players. People of those places should be responsible for the incident and management, not srk and players. So be clear in matter before raising your finger people, get your life damed

  • @hamza khan Looks like you werent there n you therefore escaped the lathi bashing.,,,,such a pity….

  • The main culprit is Kolkata Government & Police, its their duty to maintain law & order but I agree with Gambhir that its high time they put a stop to such celebrations. Kolkata crowd is unpredictable n can do anything unlike other cities !!!!!!!!

  • Hahaha, funny indicine wrote the statement of Gambhir and written Captain instead of Gambhir, lol indicine we are indians not overseas people who know India just because of Srk (as commented by many srkians). Indicine he is well known celebrity even before he joined KKR or Ipl, you can give statement and write Gambhir as we People can recognise who is Gambhir.

  • For all those loosers who think SRK organised this celebration.. Back off idiots it was mamata bannerjee who organise this kind of celebration SRK had to attend as not only he is the main highlight of the event but also the owner of KKR.. So no fault of SRK! The people were crazy for the event police had to do something!

  • what has happened is sad,when crowd go out of control it happens and i believe we all have come across this kind of incident in life but if u start blaming srk or anyone then it’s just ur low imagination ..it’s a sad incident which should have been avoided by giving proper security to that place …thats it.

  • Some haters r senseless. They just can’t understand the simple thing that it wasn’t srk who organized the ceremony he was just a guest. Though it was the fault of crowd. Its the craze for Srk around the world wherever he goes. Love u srk.

  • all those srk fans crying foul here let me clarify you that the event was organised by srk.. infact his never ending celebrations or shall i say show off continued from bangalore to mumbai n now to kolkata.. just refer to the earlier article by indicine regarding the celebrations at kolkata it clearly states that the event was organised by srk.. i wont be surprised if this self proclaimed crapster starts claiming that he is king of cricket too! such a big show off.. he can go to any level just to show off even if it means to hurt n lathicharge innocent fans.. while srk was dancing n jumping like a monkey inside the stadium innocent fans were being lathicharged outside.. such a shameful act by srk.. my heart pains seeing the above pics.. really disturbing

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