Time flies, seasons change, months come and go and nothing so eventful happens. I am joking :D
Actually lots of thingies happened from January till now. The year kicked off with the release of HNY's poster. The team presented it in a really special way which allowed fans on twitter to get personalized signed posters. Virtually of course. I myself got like 6 of them. :P
Now with the awards...since we had Chennai Express release last year that created a huge uproar in India and abroad, there was no way we would not have had anything to cheer about this award season. Deepika won the maximum awards for us as she was epically fantastic in the film. Must say, the promotion up in the credits have done wonders for her...thank you Tata Tea! :P Another notable winner this year was RCE's VFX team who picked up numerous honors for their excellent work in Krrish 3. Keep up the great work RCE VFX, give your boss a run at getting awards!
Shah Rukh's monthly astrological articles kept on winning hearts until April. Sadly, we have not had any articles for neither May or June. :( Maybe it is because he has been busy with shooting and of course the tension of IPL...
Yes, throughout the whole year, he shot for HNY continuously AND met with one scary accident as well. A door fell on his shoulder and the man carried his arm in a sling. Due to this injury, he could not attend the Filmfare Award function. He was really missed, I did not even bother watching it. But that didn't deter him from shooting and other activities. Just like it is impossible to move a mountain, it is impossible to stop Shah Rukh from working. Datuk Shah Rukh went to Kuala Lumpur with other performers and gave Malaysia a memorable night, in spite of pain. A true showman he is.
Even the President of Mexico dropped by on the sets of HNY to meet Shah Rukh. Now see how awesome Mexico is doing at the FIFA World Cup? Okay off topic. Coming back to Shah Rukh, the South Korean government appointed him as their goodwill ambassador. Obviously, he is the first Indian to receive such honor from South Korea. More recently, he graced the cover of Forbes Middle East since they featured him as one of the top Indian leaders in the Arab World. From the far east to the middle of the world to north America...SRK proves to be a global King. There has never been a king like him and there shall be no other king like him either.
Now onto Indian Tension League we go...
IPL 2014 had begun with lots of expectations when KKR won their first game against MI in the presence of Shah Rukh. Then a Lynntastic win against RCB kept those expectations doubling and tripling. But defeats against KXIP, DD, CSK and RR (twice) raised a lot of questions and those expectations turned into frustration and anger in no time.
Fans questioned how potent was our captain Gambhir's leadership, who struggled to get runs on the board. He had to be dropped. Plenty of fans had never agreed with the players we picked up from the auction before the tournament commenced. Umesh Yadav is expensive. Robin Uthappa never put up good performances. Piyush Chawla is another expensive bowler. Blah blah blah. Biggest disappointment was Yusuf Pathan. Why on earth we had retained him when he is good for nothing? The whole KKR management should be changed, they are idiots. Tips and jokes spread faster than people could see and feel the despair on the team members' faces after that string of 4 losses.
But things had a historic turnaround. Teams forget how it feels to win again but KKR had forgotten how it feels to lose again when they ended up becoming champions for the second time in 3 seasons with NINE wins in a row. The captain was the same, Gautam Gambhir. Umesh Yadav kept playing. Robin Uthappa was also playing. So did Piyush Chawla and Yusuf Pathan. In fact each of these players, who were frequently under the attack of critics, had a good role in each of the 9 wins. Robin Uthappa went on to win the orange cap because he scored the most runs in the tournament. Piyush Chawla hit the winning runs for us in the final and ended the much hyped Glenn Maxwell's innings before he even begun on two occasions out of the 4 times we played against KXIP. Umesh Yadav helped ease our nerves in the semi-final and in the last game against SRH. Yusuf Pathan? His fiery innings in the same game as Umesh against SRH helped us knock CSK off their second place and take it over like a boss.
Even the useless men became much handier than those men we thought would see us through. Even if anyone wants to hate KKR, they just can't because purple is a pretty color. Okay besides that, it is because people cannot hate on sheer hard work and self belief. KKR happily proved that cricket is a team game and it does not fully thrive on one man's performance.
As far as for me, I did get upset by their times of struggle but not so much that it would have taken on the face of hatred. I have been calm throughout the tournament, much calmer than I have ever been! Distrust was on my lips but my heart bled purple for the team. It is a norm for any SRK fan to support whatever Shah Rukh does...if not what he supports himself (the man supported Ghana over USA...not me :@)
Now we welcome the upcoming few months with hopes of rewriting box office history with HNY. Should start saving money as I would like to break my personal record of watching an SRK film for 4 times in theater :P
Till next time...
Actually lots of thingies happened from January till now. The year kicked off with the release of HNY's poster. The team presented it in a really special way which allowed fans on twitter to get personalized signed posters. Virtually of course. I myself got like 6 of them. :P
Now with the awards...since we had Chennai Express release last year that created a huge uproar in India and abroad, there was no way we would not have had anything to cheer about this award season. Deepika won the maximum awards for us as she was epically fantastic in the film. Must say, the promotion up in the credits have done wonders for her...thank you Tata Tea! :P Another notable winner this year was RCE's VFX team who picked up numerous honors for their excellent work in Krrish 3. Keep up the great work RCE VFX, give your boss a run at getting awards!
Shah Rukh's monthly astrological articles kept on winning hearts until April. Sadly, we have not had any articles for neither May or June. :( Maybe it is because he has been busy with shooting and of course the tension of IPL...
Yes, throughout the whole year, he shot for HNY continuously AND met with one scary accident as well. A door fell on his shoulder and the man carried his arm in a sling. Due to this injury, he could not attend the Filmfare Award function. He was really missed, I did not even bother watching it. But that didn't deter him from shooting and other activities. Just like it is impossible to move a mountain, it is impossible to stop Shah Rukh from working. Datuk Shah Rukh went to Kuala Lumpur with other performers and gave Malaysia a memorable night, in spite of pain. A true showman he is.
Even the President of Mexico dropped by on the sets of HNY to meet Shah Rukh. Now see how awesome Mexico is doing at the FIFA World Cup? Okay off topic. Coming back to Shah Rukh, the South Korean government appointed him as their goodwill ambassador. Obviously, he is the first Indian to receive such honor from South Korea. More recently, he graced the cover of Forbes Middle East since they featured him as one of the top Indian leaders in the Arab World. From the far east to the middle of the world to north America...SRK proves to be a global King. There has never been a king like him and there shall be no other king like him either.
Now onto Indian Tension League we go...
IPL 2014 had begun with lots of expectations when KKR won their first game against MI in the presence of Shah Rukh. Then a Lynntastic win against RCB kept those expectations doubling and tripling. But defeats against KXIP, DD, CSK and RR (twice) raised a lot of questions and those expectations turned into frustration and anger in no time.
Fans questioned how potent was our captain Gambhir's leadership, who struggled to get runs on the board. He had to be dropped. Plenty of fans had never agreed with the players we picked up from the auction before the tournament commenced. Umesh Yadav is expensive. Robin Uthappa never put up good performances. Piyush Chawla is another expensive bowler. Blah blah blah. Biggest disappointment was Yusuf Pathan. Why on earth we had retained him when he is good for nothing? The whole KKR management should be changed, they are idiots. Tips and jokes spread faster than people could see and feel the despair on the team members' faces after that string of 4 losses.
But things had a historic turnaround. Teams forget how it feels to win again but KKR had forgotten how it feels to lose again when they ended up becoming champions for the second time in 3 seasons with NINE wins in a row. The captain was the same, Gautam Gambhir. Umesh Yadav kept playing. Robin Uthappa was also playing. So did Piyush Chawla and Yusuf Pathan. In fact each of these players, who were frequently under the attack of critics, had a good role in each of the 9 wins. Robin Uthappa went on to win the orange cap because he scored the most runs in the tournament. Piyush Chawla hit the winning runs for us in the final and ended the much hyped Glenn Maxwell's innings before he even begun on two occasions out of the 4 times we played against KXIP. Umesh Yadav helped ease our nerves in the semi-final and in the last game against SRH. Yusuf Pathan? His fiery innings in the same game as Umesh against SRH helped us knock CSK off their second place and take it over like a boss.
Even the useless men became much handier than those men we thought would see us through. Even if anyone wants to hate KKR, they just can't because purple is a pretty color. Okay besides that, it is because people cannot hate on sheer hard work and self belief. KKR happily proved that cricket is a team game and it does not fully thrive on one man's performance.
As far as for me, I did get upset by their times of struggle but not so much that it would have taken on the face of hatred. I have been calm throughout the tournament, much calmer than I have ever been! Distrust was on my lips but my heart bled purple for the team. It is a norm for any SRK fan to support whatever Shah Rukh does...if not what he supports himself (the man supported Ghana over USA...not me :@)
Now we welcome the upcoming few months with hopes of rewriting box office history with HNY. Should start saving money as I would like to break my personal record of watching an SRK film for 4 times in theater :P
Till next time...
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