March 12, 2008...3:17 am
The Knight Riders are coming…..
I am positively excited; brimming - nay, overflowing - with anticipation and gutted by the intolerably long wait. I am figuratively salivating …………
……..because, ladies and gents, the greatest thing to happen to my old, beloved city since Parnab started gracing the quiz circuits, is here:
Yes ……. the Kinght Riders are coming - no nothing to do with David Hasselhorf - but our very own Dada-led, SRK owned, Indian Premium League franchise, the Kolkata Knight Riders !!!
Naysayers who frown upon the cattle-trade nature of the IPL player auctions will find plenty wrong with this picture. Snobs will deride the the golden yellow helmet as tacky. But little they do they realize the visual symbolism of a morphed image of a viking helmet with a cricket grill. It is exactly what provides confidence that the home team will ‘unleash…power, tear down …rivals’, ‘win every war in the battlefield’ , ‘fight for glory’ and other such amazing stuff.
The same spoil-sports may even complain about the overly ‘Flash’y website, but once you have downloaded the team anthem, a stirring composition in Bengali-Hindi-English combined, extolling you to ‘korbo, lorbo, jeetbo re’, how can it not stir the those long-dormant Robindrosongeet-suppressed Bangali-passions? If only we had this slogan 30 years ago, Kolkata would have been far ahead of the game.
And if all that doesn’t get your adrenalin pumping and rushing to the nearest store to get your own autographed helmet while singing ‘lorbo, jeetbo’ at the top of your voice, there is no way you can evade the charms of the lovable mascot, ‘Hoog Lee’! Yes a spectacularly genius piece of witty nomenclature from some enterprising copywriter. As SRK sez:”not Bruce Lee, not Brett Lee, but better than all the Lees“. Oh yeah !
Yessireee, along with jhalmuri, phuckka and the Campari mutton roll, add the Knight Riders to the irresistible delights of Kolkata. Lucky me, I get to be in Kolkata for their opener on the 20th April !!
Errr….is that John Buchanan sniggering ? How dare he……..
(Thanks to Well-Pitched for drawing attention to the Knight Riders)
9 Comments
March 12, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Here comes the Kolkata Knight Rider. A notice to Mumbai Extras, Delhi Doosras, Jaipur AllJacks, Mohali PreityBoys, Chennai Chappelites, Bangalore Bunglers and Hyderabad Telenders — be scared, very scared.
March 12, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Dipanjan: loved the Hyderabad Telenders- I can imagine the pronunciation in the typical Hyderabadi accent
March 13, 2008 at 12:58 am
Sire,
Should not Calcuttans who strike on everything else… go on a protest against this assault on their good name?
March 13, 2008 at 1:02 am
confused: how dare you suggest this is an assault on Kolkata’s good name. Can’t you see the greatness of King Khan and his gifts to the city ?
(we can OTOH call a strike because of your comments)
March 13, 2008 at 2:54 am
Ok ok so drip with sarcasm all you like at the breathtaking creative work done by the Red Chillies team. But I suspect you’ll be blogging a lot about the IPL brand of cricket come April. And the King might just laugh his way to the bank. Which is a good thing too, ’cause, next thing you know, he will help those endangered sports like kabaddi, danda gulli, pocket billiards etc with proceeds earned by the Knights. He said so himself. Check out :
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080312/jsp/sports/story_9009426.jsp
March 18, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hoog Lee!!!!!
So does he have any super powers?
March 27, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Damn that’s one hot looking helmet! Are they actually going to wear that on field?
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