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IPL new teams announced, THESE are the franchises and owners-#IPL2022
Ahmedabad and Lucknow are the two new members of the Indian Premier League (IPL) family as it will now be a ten-team affair from the next season.
The bidding took place at the Taj Hotel in Dubai on Monday and it is the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group (RPSG) (Lucknow) and CVC Capital Partners (Ahmedabad) who will join the cash-rich league as the new owners.
- Sanjiv Goenka-owned RPSG Group has picked Lucknow as their home base with a winning bid of INR 7090 crores.
- CVC Capital has opted for Ahmedabad with a bid of INR 5166 crores.
Speaking to ANI, a BCCI official confirmed this development.
The IPL’s first season was played in 2008, and ever since, the league has grown in stature and it is one of the most viewed competitions in the world.
Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals, SunRisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings, and Rajasthan Royals have been with the league since its inception. The Hyderabad franchise was earlier named Deccan Chargers but it came to be known as SunRisers Hyderabad after a change in ownership.
There have been fourteen seasons of the IPL tournament. The fifteenth season promises to be like no other and viewership is all set to increase.
In 2010, two new franchises – Pune Warriors India and Kochi Tuskers Kerala – joined the league before the fourth season in 2011 and for a brief period, the league was played by ten teams.
One year later in November 2011, it was announced that Kochi Tuskers Kerala side would be terminated following it “breaching” the BCCI’s terms of conditions. Pune Warriors India had withdrawn from the IPL in 2013 over financial differences with the board.
But it is all set to be a 10-team affair again come 2022.
Vinothraj PS on Koozhangal’s selection as India’s Oscar entry #Oscar2022
Vinothraj PS, who looks up to veteran directors Balu Mahendra, Satyajit Ray and Adoor Gopalakrishnan, said the location and timing of the shoot for Koozhangal was as crucial as the story of the film.
“The film has three characters – one is father, the child and the landscape. All these terrains were well off with agriculture. There was no problem with water. Later it succumbed to drought and led to huge social imbalance in the life of these people. This is what we wanted to address,” he said.
But shooting in real locations came with its own set of challenges.
The director recalled how the cameras would often get jammed due to extreme heat and how the entire crew had to walk barefoot to get the pulse of the story right.
The movie was partially complete before the Covid-19 pandemic struck but the team needed someone to take over the entire production.
In their search for a collaborator, they knocked on the doors of the NFDC Film Bazaar, a platform created and organised to encourage collaboration between South Asian and international film communities.
“The NFDC had invited director Ram, who won a National Award in 2013 for his movie Thanga Meengal, as a guest for one of the lectures. We met him and told him about the film, which he loved. Then Vignesh Sivan and Nayanthara saw the film and they took over the production as they believed in it,” Vinothraj said.
After having a festival run of about a year, the director said they were toying with the idea of releasing Koozhangal around December. However, the film might get an early release.
SAMANTHA CONGRATULATES NAYANTHARA AND VIGNESH SHIVAN
The film has two more steps to make it to the final nomination. After 2016, a Tamil film has been selected to represent India at the Academy Awards.
Sharing the poster of Koozhangal, Samantha wrote, “Big congratulations @wikkiofficial and Nayan. This is such mad news. Congratulations to the entire team. More power to you (sic).”
ABOUT KOOZHANGAL
Koozhangal, known as Pebbles internationally, is a realistic family drama produced by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan. The film explores the story of an alcoholic dad and his son, who follows their wife-mum as she flees home due to abuse. How the father-son duo wins her back forms the story.