King Khan intends to set up Cricket Academy in KolkattaFiled Under: Cricket
Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood actor and the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders had a meeting with the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers’ Buildings and articulated concern in locating a modern cricket academy in the city. In respond, the chief minister urged the actor to take some “initiatives” in the Film sector in the state.
Nevertheless both the chief minister and Shah Rukh were reluctant to disclose the details of the meeting, officials who were present assumed that a bundle of things were discussed, the main focal point was on the cricket academy and the Film Production in West Bengal.
A senior official clued-up “Shah Rukh proposed to set up a modern cricket academy in the state. The academy will be set up on the lines of Australian Cricket Academy in Melbourne. But the discussion was very informal as no formal proposal was submitted by Shah Rukh.”
It is learnt that the chief minister invited King Khan to empower in the film industry of the state principally in the production sector. Mr Bhattacharjee explained Shah Rukh about the Kolkata Film Festival (KFF) and he invited Shah Rukh to attend the next KFF listed to be detained in November.
Shah Rukh apprised the CM that Kolkatta has a lot of talent in this sector. He informed Mr Bhattacharjee that the cameraman of his film Chak De India was from Kolkata. He also mentioned if appropriate infrastructure could be developed here, local talents would have a better platform to establish their superiority. This piece of the meeting is measured to be significant because the state government has already invited term of interest from private partners to run West Bengal Film Development Corporation in a joint venture.
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- 28 May 2008 12:24 AM
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