Cricket, Film Stars and Businessmen

It's quite funny to watch the IPL franchise owners jump around on the boundary trying to act as if their enthusiasm or brooding will affect the outcome of the game.

From Priety Zinta's ebullient flag waving from the sidelines to Shilpa Shetty's "hey look at me too" act .... to Shahruk's "what the hell happened" look, these guys are a treat. Makes you wonder why a former cricketer didn't get in on a franchise. Firstly, he would've done things a little more smartly ... like letting Ganguly Capt the side.... or making sure Yuvraj did not captain, or making sure you had the civility to buy a few more tickets to get the whole of last years Rajasthan side out to SA instead of scrimping on expenses and sending just 18 people out there.

I cannot for a minute imagine that any of these filmi jackasses knew anything about cricket... Priety barely knew who Mortaza was before she bid on him against Shahrukh, and Shahrukh, after spending $600K on the wide-eyed bangla tiger must be wondering what the bloke is doing warming the bench. As for Shilpa Shetty .... she probably realizes that far too many people are looking at the pretty Priety and not nearly enough of them are watching her movies from yesteryear. Now that she has a fat walleted businessman in the bag, its probably the right time to throw on a nice blue cricket shirt, color co-ordinate it with some glasses, and try and get the pronunciation of names like Carseldine correct.

Make no mistake, I really adore both Priety Zinta and Shilpa Shetty ... they're bloody gorgeous for sure, but I have trouble liking megalomaniacs who are megalomaniacal for its own sake.

It must be the stupid Bollywood scripts and dialogues that must be affecting their brains.... it has to. I mean, you spend your whole life acting in really really plotless movies reciting absolutely stupid dialogues and doing strange dance moves but you keep getting richer on account of a seemingly limitless supply of a billion idiots who seem to want more of this crap .... with this inexplicable success model, it must leave you trying to do the ridiculously stupidly dramatic even in real life in the hope of some sort of success to follow.

IPL team USD .....75M .... the look on SRK's helpless face.... priceless!!! Some things in life are priceless ....for everything else, theres a Bollywood film.