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Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:01 David Rosenthal Apart from Bollywood, Lalit and I agreed that we didn't want to compete with other cricket, we wanted to compete with the soap operas.
- ▶ 1:27:52 David Rosenthal And the reason that that is the case is because they bring Bollywood in to the ownership groups.
- ▶ 1:27:57 David Rosenthal So, Bollywood and cricket were and still are the two biggest things by far in India, as Andrew Wildwood was saying, like, there is no number three.
- ▶ 1:28:05 David Rosenthal It's Bollywood and cricket.
- ▶ 1:28:07 David Rosenthal And when it comes to Bollywood, there is one star that shines
- ▶ 1:28:19 David Rosenthal He writes, within Bollywood, there are B-listers, A-listers, double A-listers, and way above them all is Shah Rukh Khan, richer and more famous than Tom Cruise or Clint Eastwood, and adored by the entire country.
- ▶ 1:33:53 David Rosenthal And you gotta prove that, which means you need Shah Rukh and you need Bollywood.
- ▶ 1:34:52 David Rosenthal We got Bollywood, and oh yeah, Nokia's in, and they're in for five million dollars for jersey sponsorship of a single team.
- ▶ 1:35:04 David Rosenthal Okay, so now that Shah Rukh's in, all the rest of Bollywood wants to come in, because wherever Shah Rukh goes, you know, he's the leader of the pack.
- ▶ 1:35:53 David Rosenthal Now you've got triple A top list, one of the best actresses in Bollywood, who's also going to be a principal owner of one of the teams, who's also going to be at all the games, also in the stands, also going to have TV cameras all over…
- ▶ 1:36:13 David Rosenthal In one way, they are 90% of the market, they being Bollywood.
- ▶ 1:37:37 David Rosenthal And you're gonna have all the biggest Bollywood stars there, all the triple A listers who
- ▶ 1:39:34 David Rosenthal Second, you've got a diverse ownership group, which is necessary both to ensure that no one group has financial resources outside the system that can outspend any other, but more importantly, you really need Bollywood to be involved here…