Tag: Bollywood

Sreesanth to Star in Ram Gopal Verma Movie on Spot-Fixing

| May 19, 2013 | 1 Comment
Sreesanth to Star in Ram Gopal Verma Movie on Spot-Fixing

Sreesanth may actually end up earning millions more than he expected to take home from spot fixing after Bollywood film-maker Ram Gopal Verma offered him an undisclosed amount to act as himself in an upcoming movie about spot-fixing. Sreesanth is said to have signed on the dotted line immediately on seeing the amount offered that [...]

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KKR Owner Shahrukh Khan Faces Life Ban After Police Complaint By MCA

| May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
KKR Owner Shahrukh Khan Faces Life Ban After Police Complaint By MCA

Bollywood superstar and co- owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, Shahrukh Khan, faces the possibility of a life ban against entering Wankhede Stadium after a police complaint was lodged against him by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA). MCA officials took this drastic action after the KKR owner was said to have been involved in a skirmish [...]

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A Tribute To Sports Fan Shammi Kapoor

| August 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Bollywood legend Shammi Kapoor passed away, last weekend, when he succumbed to renal failure. Those who knew the man vouch for his joie de vivre that was so evident in Kapoor’s on-screen performances. This article is a tribute to the actor and more importantly to the sports lover that Shammi Kapoor was, as evidenced by [...]

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Preity Zinta’s Reaction If & When Kings XI Punjab Win IPL

| May 18, 2011 | 0 Comments
Preity Zinta’s Reaction If & When Kings XI Punjab Win IPL

Sit in your time machine and zoom ahead to May 27, to the IPL 5 finals. Kings XI Punjab have won the tournament, and Preity Zinta is giving a speech on the occasion, a speech that she herself wrote, without any help from scriptwriters. Here’s an advance copy of the speech, in case you miss [...]

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Open Letter To Gabriella Pasqualotto, Sacked IPL Cheerleader

| May 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dear Gabriella, I have read the blog that caused the organisers of IPL 4 to sack you. While commiserating with you on your unfortunate loss of job, I have a few questions about your blog, just to get clear in my mind about what you meant. For instance, you have said: “To the citizens, we [...]

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Mumbai Indians IPL Cheerleader Sacked

| May 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

Gabriella Pasqualotto, an IPL cheerleader for the Mumbai Indians, has been sacked after making accusations against players, sponsors and fellow cheerleaders, in a blog. Pasqualotto, 22, a South African national, said in her blog that IPL cheerleaders were being “treated like meat” by players and sponsors alike, and that some of the dancers were quite [...]

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ICC World Cup 2011 Theme Song Is Here At Last

| January 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

The official theme song for the ICC World Cup 2011 tournament has been released… I have asserted all along that Bollywood and cricket have a very close relationship, and this song proves just that. For the ICC World Cup 2011 theme song has been composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL), a Bollywood trio of music makers. For [...]

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SportingAttitude: Top 10 Sports Satire Stories Of 2010

| December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

Sports and satire often seem made for each other, with any number of characters helping to make sports more colourful. These, in my view, are the top 10 sports satire stories we ran in 2010: Escaped Tiger Panjo Looks For Vuvuze La Players If you had any doubt the Vuvuze La players at the World [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 3

| July 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

This is the third episode of the story of Bollywood directors invited to the commentary box at a  cricket match, to comment on an incident where an opening batsman is hit on the head by the first ball of the match and his physio takes him to hospital for a brain scan. Meanwhile, the bowler [...]

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Bollywood Cricket: Head Injury Part 2

| July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is a continuation of the story of Bollywood directors in the commentary box at a  cricket match where the batting team’s opener has been hit on the head by a bouncer and taken to hospital for a brain scan by the team physio. Also, news has come in that the bowler has announced his [...]

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