Yesterday, Shah Rukh, dressed in black trouser, white shirt and steel gray court and Juhi in hot pink salwar suit along with her husband Joy Mehta, called on West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee prior to his team’s last match at the Eden Gardens at 12.45. They arrived in a white Mercedes and went straight to the chief minister’s ante-chamber where city Police Commissioner Goutam Mohan Chakraborty was also present.
SRK presented a golden helmet of his knights to Bhattacharjee. The chief minister presented them export quality Darjeeling tea.
They discussed on how to develop the film industry in keeping with the rapid change in viewership profile and technology, development of cricket in its new format T-20, the need for more cricket academies to develop the sport, etc. Only such academies could prepare a new breed of cricketers for the T-20 avatar, SRK is said to have observed while committing himself to strengthen his IPL team next year.
