KKR Hypes Up Shahrukh Khan-Starred Dunki Ahead Of IPL 2024 Auctions
Shahrukh Khan during an IPL game (x.com)
The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) franchise has re-shared a trailer of co-owner Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming Bollywood comedy-drama Dunki.
Taking to their social media accounts, the franchise hyped up the movie by adding an intriguing caption to the nearly three-minute-long footage.
KKR hypes up Shahrukh Khan’s Dunki ahead of auction
KKR co-owner and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan shared a three-minute-long trailer of his upcoming comedy-drama film Dunki on December 5. The movie is slated to be released on December 21, i.e., just two days after the much-awaited IPL 2024 auction in UAE.
In a bid to hype up the movie, IPL franchise KKR also re-shared the trailer on their social media accounts. The caption of their post reads:
“We cannot wait to watch how this story unfolds! 🤩”
The KKR franchise, meanwhile, recently made a number of retentions and releases in lieu of the forthcoming IPL 2024 auctions. The franchise retained senior West Indies members Sunil Narine and Andre Russell, alongside Indian veteran Shreyas Iyer and IPL cult hero Rinku Singh. Here is a look at KKR’s entire list of 13 retained cricketers for next year’s IPL 2024 season:
Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Jason Roy, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, and Varun Chakaravarthy.
The franchise also brought back former IPL-winning skipper Gautam Gambhir as the team’s new mentor.
The KKR management will be heading into the IPL 2024 auction with an available purse of INR 32.7 crore. As per estimates, they can rope in four overseas stars and 13 players at the bidding event.
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