kolkata armed with a blazing golden helmet the symbol of the kolkata knight riders ipl team shah rukh khan met chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjee a diehard football fan at writers buildings on sunday this is only the second time this year that buddhadeb went to writers on a sunday when he prefers to stay at home and catch up with some literature or spend time with his family the last time he went to work on his day off was in january when steel baron l n mittal came calling this time it was the bollywood badshahthe meeting between the actor and the lawmaker was described as a courtesy call on the last day of kkrs appearance in the ongoing ipl championship what was scheduled to be a 15minute meeting turned out to be a 45 minute adda over a cup of tea clad in a black blazer and white shirt shah rukh appeared appropriately elegant before he entered the cms chamber at 1244 pm the ever beaming actress juhi chawla in a hot pink ensemble and her industrialist husband jay mehta were at his side shah rukh who is the kkr owner along with juhi and jay gifted the helmet to buddhadeb the chief minister returned the gesture with packs of the choicest darjeeling teathough neither shah rukh nor buddhadeb were willing to spill the beans on what they discussed at the meeting sources at writers said the talks mainly veered around movies and sports they talked about the need of an international standard cricket academy in west bengal and ways to revive the film industry in bengal considering the paradigm shift in viewership and technology today shah rukh reportedly briefed buddhadeb about the relevance of twenty20 cricket matches as it provides a platform for regional players to showcase their talent and then by dint of their performance get selected to the national team the conversation invariably veered around to the best international cricket academies like the ones that exist in australia and how it would help young sports enthusiasts in bengal if one such academy is built and run by professionals here though it was not clear if the bollywood star was aiming to invest in building an advanced film studio in the city as was the buzz for the past couple of days it is believed he did talk about the importance of having a modern studio that would attract even bollywood filmmakers not to speak of the fact that it would help bring back the glory of the states indigenous film industrypolice commissioner gautam mohan chakraborty was also present in the cms antechamber during shah rukhs visitthe bollywood star heaped praise on the cultural richness of west bengal seeing his enthusiasm buddhadeb invited him to the two most talked about events of the city the kolkata international film festival and the kolkata book fair shah rukh has reportedly promised to make it to the film festival in november later