Shah Rukh Khan and Kolkata Knight Riders: Too much controversy!

Shah Rukh Khan seems to be in thick of controversial things in whatever endeavour he is involved in.  His so called cold war with the other top guns of Bollywood always finds ample coverage in media, but his stint as the boss of an Indian Premier League (IPL) team- Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has also been plagued with a lot of controversies and filmy dramas.

The IPL season-2 is gaining heat in South Africa, and so is the temperature rising in and around Shahrukh and KKR.  There is a lot happening with Sharukh on the personal as well as his team's front.  On one hand, his team is not performing well in the IPL and at the same time one or the other controversy keeps on hovering to attract media's attention.  At the personal level, Shahrukh is in a spot with the anti-smoking lobby's act of smoking during an IPL match.  The National Organization for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) is upset with the broadcasters of the tournament which showed the footage of King Khan smoking.

 

KKR ran into fresh trouble as the team management asked two players of the team Akash Chopra and Sanjay Bangar to return home citing reasons that they did not fit into the team''s scheme of things.  This decision is viewed as another experiment from controversial Australian coach of KKR John Buchanan who was at the receiving end for his multi captain theory and eventually removing Sourav Ganguly from captaincy.  However, KKR's chief executive officer Joy Bhattacharya tried to defend the act by saying that the decision had been taken after the team management met the two players.

 

KKR has been in controversy much before the IPL season 2 kicked off.  It all began with Buchanan's theory of clipping Ganguly's wings by projecting his theory of multiple captains which raised a storm in West Bengal.  In order to play safe, Shahrukh had to come out with the statement that Ganguly will remain at the top spot, but to every body's surprise he and his team management took a U-turn in South Africa by removing Ganguly from the top job.

 

There is a major storm brewing inside the Knight Riders camp and the team's dismal performance in the tournament is not helping the cause.  Over the least few days, it was the issue of mystery blogger that crated a stir in the KKR camp, and it is believed that Akash Chopra has been axed for the fact that he was alleged to be the man behind the blog bringing out the issues of the dressing room to the world.

 

Nothing seems to be going right for KKR and its boss Shahrukh.  There are certain players in the team not happy with the behaviour of coach and his army of support staff and at the same time the team's poor outings have demoralized others as well.  Shahrukh needs to understand the fact that this is not a Hindi movie where the script is destined to end on a happy note.  A lot needs to be done by him and his team.  The need of the hour is to get the acts together quickly or else the dreams of KKR in the IPL-2 could metamorphose into a nightmare.

Source :http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=18113