Maalamaal (1988)

One of Naseeruddin Shah‘s early movies, Maalamaal (1988) was about  a man who gets rich overnight.

He’s living his life when his grandfather dies and he inherits money in billions, only condition being he needs to speand a couple of millions to get his hands on those billions.

And where’s the cricket connection, you may ask?

He loves cricket and plays cricket, nothing phenomenal if you are among the average Indian male, and it features Sunil Gavaskar.

The movie was directed by Kawal Sharma who has also directed movies with very intesresting names like Heeralal Pannalal, Paap Ki Kamaee and Gunahon Ka Devta.

The movie also stars Poonam Dhillon, Mandakini and Aditya Pancholi.

Knights & Angels

Cricket saw Bollywood lining up in full force as IPL kicked off last year.

Shah Rukh Khan along with Juhi Chawla and her husband Jai Mehta took over the Kolkata Knight Riders which was the most profitable team if not the winner.  On board were Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting and Shoaib Akhtar.

The team colours were gold and black, the theme  Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re, with SRK even releasing a video.

With the next season set to take off, Shah Rukh Khan is building up the interest with a talent hunt for cheerleaders called Knights & Angels anchored by Purab. On the judge panel are his co-star from Rab Ne Bana Di Kya Jodi Anushka Sharma and Darr co-star Juhi Chawla, with Shiamak Davar choreographing the cheers. It is produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and aired on NDTV Imagine.