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The West Bengal government’s love affair with SRK’s IPL franchise and two time IPL champions, the Kolkata Knight Riders, may be on the cusp of an irrevocable breakdown. This comes in the wake of Didi discovering that KKR is owned by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainments, which has aroused suspicions in the over paranoid West Bengal CM that KKR could be the front for a huge Maoist or even worse, Marixt-Leninist, covert operation to destabilize her regime.
Didi came to know that a company with abominable name like Red Chillies owns KKR by accident while she was watching ‘Om Shanti Om’ with Derek, a few days after the way over the top felicitation ceremony at Eden Gardens for the victorious KKRians. This is how Didi discovered the unfortunate fact:
“Bery nice movie. Shah Rukh acted bery bell,” Didi casually remarked as the ending credits began to roll.
“It’s SRK’s home production, Didi,” Derek said, popping a salted cashew nut into his mouth, seizing the opportunity to impress his boss with some GK trivia and score valuable brownie points. “It was after this movie made so much money for SRK bhai that he had the wherewithal to buy KKR.”
“Ain?”!!” Didi exclaimed, looking pleased.
“Indeed, Didi,” Derek said, munching the cashew. “By the way, do you know what SRK’s other connection with Bengal is?”
“Dunno. Ki Derek?”
“SRK’s godfather is Shah Nawaz Khan, Didi. After being taken prisoner by the Japanese in WWII, Shah Nawaz joined Subhash babu’s INA and was part of the regiment that seized Kohima briefly, ” Derek reeled out the facts.
“Bow. That is bery interesting, Derek. SRK is my second favourite actor after Neil Nitin Mukesh,” Didi said. Derek relaxed. This was going well, he thought to himself.
Suddenly, Didi sat up with a start. “Rewind,” she ordered, as the last of the credits rolled out.
“Wha..what’s wrong, Didi?” Derek stammered, shaken out his comfort zone.
“You fool, read the final credits. Whose production is it?” she hissed, growing redder by the minute.
“A Red Chillies Production…oh shit,” were Derek’s final worlds before a high decibel, window-glass shattering scream knocked Derek cold for the rest of the day.
SRK is now frantically working with his legal team to change the name of his company to Green Chillies Entertainments to placate the mercurial TMC supremo but it may be too little and too late. “Green Chillies won’t do. Perhaps Blue Chillies may at least get him out of the dog house but he can forget about getting VIP treatment from Didi’s government henceforth. Didi has now shifted her loyalties to the Rajasthan Royals. Serves SRK right for giving such an ostentatious name for his production house,” a TMC minister informed The UnReal Times.