Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad won one title each and will try to improve their tally in TATA IPL 2022

There are 10 teams competing in TATA IPL 2022. We have dealt with the top two teams in terms of titles won. These are Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. Next, we saw two teams owned by film stars. These are Kolkata Knight Riders owned by Shah Rukh Khan and Punjab Kings owned by Preity Zinta. This time we will have a look at two other teams who have won one title each. These are Rajasthan Royals who won the inaugural title in 2009 and Sunrisers Hyderabad who won in 2016.

Rajasthan Royals will have Sanju Samson as captain and he will double up as the wicketkeeper. He will have others like Karun Nair, Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jos Buttler, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Prasidh Krishna, Shubham Garhwal, Riyan Parag, Yashasvi Jaiswal, James Neesham, Navdeep Saini and Kuldip Yadav. They have played in IPL and can cause upsets depending upon the situations. The team has a few newcomers.


Kane Williamson will be the captain. He will have with him players like Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhishek Sharma, Shreyas Gopal, T Natrajan, Jagadeesha Suchith, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi. There are also a few newcomers and they will have to use every opportunity to outwit their opponents. They got the title in 2016 and could do it again.


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Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings – film stars own these two teams of TATA IPL 2022

The glamour quotient is high for two teams of TATA IPL 2022. The first of these is the Kolkata Knight Riders owned by the Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. It won the trophy twice in 2012 and 2014. The other team is Punjab Kings owned by Preity Zinta. Her team has not yet won any trophy even though they did get chances and they could rewrite history in 2022.


The squad of Kolkata Knight Riders has its share of tried and tested players. Shreyas Iyer is the new captain. Ajinkya Rahane, Aaron Finch, Sam Billings (wk), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Pat Cummins, Varun Chakravarthy, Umesh Yadav, Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh, There are some new players in the KKR squad.

As far as Punjab Kings squad goes, Mayank Agarwal is the captain. Along with him, there will be Shikhar Dhawan, Ishan Porell, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar. Liam Livingstone, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Arshdeep Singh. This team also has its share of newcomers who could turn the tables.


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There is a lot of glamor attached to the T20 Games and the teams that participate in the Indian Premier League. Their owners are proud of the players who bring glory and some of the players have become indispensable. The owners go to any length to retain them. Nita Ambani of RIL owns Mumbai Indians – the top team that won the title five times.

The next is India Cements who own Chennai Super Kings that won the title four times.

Then comes the famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan who owns the Kolkata Knight Riders. It won the title twice.

Another actor Priety Zinta owns the Punjab Kings.

Rajasthan Royals is owned by Manoj Badale and Lachlan Murdoch.

Kalanithi Maran of the SUN Group owns Sunrisers Hyderabad.

United Spirits Limited, a Diageo Group company is the owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

GMR Group and the JSW Group are owners of Delhi Capitals.

CVC Capital owns Gujarat Titans and is one of the latest entrants.

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Influence of Bengali culture on Hindi movies

We have noticed that during the last decade, there has been an unmistakable influence of Bengali culture on Hindi movies and even TV serials, thanks to big names like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaya, Rabindra Nath Tagore and Satyajit Ray – they had very strong power of writing and when their novels came on the silver screen the products took the world by storm. Of course, some part of the credit should go to the producers and directors who saw tremendous potential in the story and were adept at translating the thoughts into visuals that kept the audience spellbound.
Take the novel Devdas – it was penned by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaya in 1917 and its first movie version was released in 1955 – it was directed by Bimal Roy. Subsequently, in 2002, it got a fresh of life with the direction of Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the cast of Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Maduri Dixit. Yes, the storyline was modified to accommodate the 21st century mindset and the result was a boost to Bengali culture.
Another similar movie is Parineeta – another story of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaya. Originally written in 1914, it captured the imagination of the audience when it was made in Hindi in 2005 with Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sabyasachi Chakravorty. The period costumes, the Bengali settings helped to make popular the Bengali culture.
It needs to be mentioned that Vidya Balan has contributed a lot to popularize Bengali culture through her memorable performance in the 2012 movie Kahani – it gave the viewers a ringside view of the famous Durga Puja festival in Kolkata.

Bollywood usually portrayed Bengalis as Keshto Mukherjee, a drunkard or Asit Sen, the potbellied character who could fit into the role of a policeman with ease. To the common man outside Bengal, the people of Bengal were shown to be fond of fish and rosogolla. But, gradually, perceptions have changed – thanks to movie producers and directors who have had the courage to break out of tradition.
The result is for all to see – Bengali dress styles, Bengali food, Bengali culture and even characters who mouth Bengali words have increased in not only the Bollywood movies but can be seen in TV aerials as well.(to be continued …)
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After twins, another popular genre of Bollywood movies is the one about rebirth. Although there are not too many Bollywood movies on this, the ones that have seen the light of day have been blockbusters. The general theme is usually about revenge that the wronged one takes and the storylines are designed accordingly with plenty of scope for song and dance sequences.
In real life there are many stories of rebirth – like the 10-year-old kid from Oklahoma. He believed that he was the reincarnation of Hollywood actor Marty Martyn, a man who died in 1964. He even recounted to his mother stories of meeting Rita Hayworth, dancing on Broadway, traveling overseas and working at an agency.
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Or - a kid suddenly starts to talk about a long lost family in a totally different part of the country. His parents are puzzled, they discuss the matter with their family and friends and even with local priests. They feel that some evil spirit has taken control of the boy. The boy keeps repeating strange facts and stories of a past life. Finally, the parents decide to take the plunge and travel to the place as directed by the boy. And – once there, the boy begins to impress the people with his knowledge of intricate affairs of the family. That in short is rebirth – when one is reborn in a different family.
That is the theme of Bollywood movies on the theme of rebirth.
Only, in order to make it more dramatic, it is not about one stray rebirth but of two of them. It is certainly a bit of a coincidence but Bollywood movies thrive on coincidences.
The 1995 movie Karan-Arjun was about the rebirth of two brothers Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. They had, in their previous birth, been hunted down and killed by landlords of a village in Rajasthan. Their mother continues to threaten the landlord and his henchmen that one day, her sons would return to take revenge. And – that is exactly what happens. Another blockbuster rebirth movie was Om Shanti Om of 2007 - in this movie, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone are killed and are reborn to take revenge against the man who had conspired to kill Deepika. Once again we see two rebirths, simultaneously. (to be continued …)
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