T20 match is multiplex of cinema halls: SRK

KINGS ON CHAT: Shah Rukh Khan (L) and Sourav Ganguly speaking to CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai.

          

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Sourav Ganguly: I still feel Test Cricket is the real judge of players’ ability. But this is one format of the game, which has picked up and will go on and players will have to learn how to play it or somebody else will play it.

Shah Rukh Khan: In my language, of entertainment, I think T20 is the multiplex of cinema halls. The movie’s the same but it offers you a little more. It’s still cricket but it’s being offered to you in a different manner.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Are the Shoaibs and the Souravs the stars of the Kolkata Knight Riders or are you the star, Shah Rukh?

Shah Rukh Khan: When we are dancing at the party after winning or losing the match, I’m the star. When we’re playing cricket, Sourav is the star.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Every night, irrespective of whether you win or lose, there’s a party?

Shah Rukh Khan: Yes, we have to realise that we have to play our best and the day we play our best, I think we should celebrate it.

Rajdeep Sardesai: When you and Priyanka Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi come out for the match, is this like a day out, a form of entertainment for Shah Rukh and buddies?

Shah Rukh Khan: If you ask me, the last thing on my mind when we go and play is entertainment. When we are playing I’m really stressed but I don’t want that stress to pass on to these boys.

Rajdeep Sardesai: What does he tell you before a match? Does he tell you that you better win otherwise you’re sacked as captain?

Sourav Ganguly:. Yeah (laughs).

Shah Rukh Khan: Actually, they tell me they’ll sack me.

Sourav Ganguly: If I’m sacked a s a captain I wouldn’t mind. I’ll enjoy playing as a player.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Do you approve of the cheerleaders Sourav? Do you like them?

Sourav Ganguly: Well, when we play on the field, my attention never goes there because there a lot of things are going on in my mind — I have to think about the game, watch the cricket ball, captain the side, etc. I’ve never really worried about the cheerleaders.

Shah Rukh Khan: During the Twenty20s he’s got other figures to deal with!

Rajdeep Sardesai: Shah Rukh, what are your views on the cheerleaders. Is it a part of the package at the end of the day?

Shah Rukh Khan: Maybe I’m a wrong guy to be asked this question because I’m surrounded by cheerleaders on my sets. A lot of them, at least, from our team, work with me in the cinema. I’m never distracted on the sets so I wont be distracted on the field. I think you can’t just suddenly take a moral stand and say this is right and that isn’t. It’s cricket at the end of it all. Yes some people will have issues with the clothing. Suddenly we’ll become very moralistic about certain things.

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