IPL had a mega opening ceremony, Pathan scored a 37-ball-century, Sachin won the game for Mumbai Indians, Gilchrist is leading Deccan Chargers trying to defend their title, it is IPL fever all the way. Cricket sells in India... and that is good news!?!?! Anyways it doesn't matter. I am not a cricketer and I personally do not know a single person for whom cricket is his daily bread and butter. What matters is Indians have developed a lot of interest in cricket and it has a place very next (most probably on the higher side) to Bollywood. And so probably the line between Bollywood and cricket is thinning day-by-day. Cricketers who fail to go on all the way have tried their luck in movies and there are movies on cricket and now there is a third aspect to it which has come into play with IPL, hmm.. movie stars are now owning cricket teams. Wow.. this has developed into a covalent bond as in aromatic organic compounds, sharing more than what carbon and hydrogen (H=C=H) atoms do :). This aroma is attracting people and creating pools of wealth.
Another example wherein this aroma has come into play is in Ashutosh Govarikar's Lagaan and Nagesh Kukkunoor's Iqbal. On the other hand cricket has been played with a well defined script where the aroma turned into foul air; who doesn't remember our match fixer's. I can only say that nothing is impossible in India! But let the aroma hold on and let it spread all over India, entertaining the crowd the way it likes the most.
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