Shah Rukh Khan’s team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won this season of IPL on Sunday night in Chennai. Shah Rukh, who has co-owned the team with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta since 2008, has been with the team through their many ups and downs and in a recent chat, the team’s mentor Gautam Gambhir, spoke about SRK’s bond with the team’s players. He also spoke about how despite being the owner of the team, SRK does not behave like an owner but like a player.
In a chat with Sportskeeda Cricket, when asked about videos of Shah Rukh celebrating with the team and his unique bond with every one of the players, Gautam said, “Of course there is [an individual bond]. He has been emotionally connected to this team for such a long time. The team has seen so many ups and downs, been through bad patches and good ones. So when you have been through a bad patch, you want to enjoy the good days.”
He added that a unique bond between the owner and players is “essential” and said, “The bond should be there. As an owner, you don’t have to behave like an owner, you want to behave like a team member. It’s not necessary for you to behave like an owner, you can behave like a player too. Players are insecure and they are in a profession where they are judged every day and in a place where there are no retakes. And when your owner knows that there are no retakes, and you are in a high intensity and high pressure situation, that bond is essential.”
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Gautam was then asked about the songs he danced to at the celebrations and the cricketer laughed and shared that Shah Rukh Khan is an accomplished man who has achieved a lot, but even he has been unsuccessful in making him dance. “Shah Rukh bhai has been very successful in his life and he will be successful in future too but the only place where he has been unsuccessful is when it comes to making me dance. He hasn’t been able to make me dance and he won’t be successful in this in future also because I can’t sing and dance,” he said. This was KKR’s third win of IPL.
For Shah Rukh Khan, he will next be seen in King. He is yet to announce the film officially but it is rumoured that he will be starring with his daughter Suhana Khan in the film.
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