Shah Rukh Khan, every mention

Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired Mar 24, 2025 · 34 mentions

• ▶ 0:08 Ben Gilbert Have you seen the music video with Shah Rukh Khan, the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders?
• ▶ 0:14 Ben Gilbert He is the main character with the Bollywood dance around him.
• ▶ 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.
• ▶ 1:28:51 David Rosenthal So Lalit knows Shah Rukh Khan, biggest star in India.
• ▶ 1:28:56 David Rosenthal Shah Rukh is not a cricket fan.
• ▶ 1:29:33 David Rosenthal So Lalit obviously knows Shah Rukh.
• ▶ 1:29:54 David Rosenthal Shah Rukh said, Lalit, I don't know how to do this.
• ▶ 1:30:02 David Rosenthal Said, Charu, let me handle it.
• ▶ 1:30:23 David Rosenthal Because he's friends with Shah Rukh, he knows that Nokia, the big handset manufacturer at the time, remember, we're still slightly pre-smartphone era here.
• ▶ 1:30:39 David Rosenthal Nokia is desperate to get Shah Rukh as their celebrity spokesperson in India, and for whatever reason,
• ▶ 1:30:47 David Rosenthal Shah Rukh is not engaging with them on it.
• ▶ 1:30:50 David Rosenthal So Lala says, Shah Rukh, just trust me.
• ▶ 1:30:58 David Rosenthal Lala turns around, and he goes to Nokia, and he says, I know you want Shah Rukh.
• ▶ 1:32:08 David Rosenthal One team that doesn't exist that theoretically might be won at the auction by Shah Rukh Khan?
• ▶ 1:32:40 David Rosenthal So Lalit goes back to Shah Rukh and he's like, all right, I got you your team.
• ▶ 1:33:53 David Rosenthal And you gotta prove that, which means you need Shah Rukh and you need Bollywood.
• ▶ 1:34:18 David Rosenthal So Shah Rukh's like, oh, wow.
• ▶ 1:34:31 David Rosenthal Shah Rukh won the team at 12 o'clock at three o'clock.
• ▶ 1:34:47 David Rosenthal Lalit can now go around to everybody and say, Shaaruk is in.
• ▶ 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.
• ▶ 1:35:43 David Rosenthal So now you've got not just Shah Rukh, who
• ▶ 1:45:37 David Rosenthal And it's basically just like the Nokia and Shah Rukh Khan deal.
• ▶ 1:47:02 David Rosenthal Remember, he's already set all this up with Shah Rukh Khan, you know, he's got the players,
• ▶ 1:47:06 David Rosenthal He's got Shah Rukh Khan.
• ▶ 1:47:51 David Rosenthal Like I said, it's the same Shah Rukh deal.
• ▶ 1:52:03 David Rosenthal Coming in each year, and remember what he told Shah Rukh Khan, what's the deal on the franchise fees?
• ▶ 2:23:05 David Rosenthal Shah Rukh Khan's group gets the Kolkata Knight Riders for seventy-five million.
• ▶ 2:23:10 David Rosenthal Preeti Zinta's group gets the King's 11 Punjab for seventy-six million dollars, suspiciously close in price to the seventy-five million dollar Shahrukh Khan bid, but only one million dollar more.
• ▶ 2:27:44 David Rosenthal Kolkata Knight Riders, owned, of course, by the one and only Shah Rukh Khan.
• ▶ 2:27:49 David Rosenthal He's there.
• ▶ 2:27:51 David Rosenthal He's leading the parade into the stadium, doing the big opening event, broadcasts around the country.
• ▶ 3:57:42 Ben Gilbert Shah Rukh Khan has forty eight million Instagram followers.
• ▶ 4:11:58 Ben Gilbert Shah Rukh Khan deciding to own that team made it much more valuable.
• ▶ 4:12:11 Ben Gilbert But think about if passive money had bought the Kolkata Knight Riders versus Shah Rukh Khan buying it.