Cricket fans can be on cloud nine as IPL 2025 started on March 22, 2025. Kolkata Knight Riders are the defending champions, who lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the opening game that took place on March 22, 2025. RCB won over by seven wickets. For the unversed, it was in 2008 when Juhi Chawla, along with Shah Rukh Khan, stepped into the universe of cricket with the launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL) team, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). However, do you know that the actress was superstitious and got the black and gold jersey colours changed as she contributed black colour to the initial losses faced by KKR?
When Shah Rukh Khan called Juhi Chawla’s belief that black jersey’s contributed to KKR’s loss as ‘rubbish’
For the unversed, when Kolkata Knight Riders started, it was on a losing streak. When the tough times came, Juhi felt that the team was facing loss because of the black jerseys that were made for the team. She felt that the colour black got them bad luck. It was in the documentary, Living with KKR when Jay Mehta, Juhi’s husband and co-owner of KKR, shared how she was superstitious. KKR had seen a rough season in South Africa and had tasted defeat. Juhi had told her husband, Jay that it was because of the colour black. Jay shared:
“After we came back from South Africa with our famous losing streak, Juhi suddenly tells me, ‘I am superstitious about black as a colour and I think black is unlucky for KKR.’”
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