Amitabh Bachchan has deigned to comment about the IPL on his blog. He begins by taking a page out of the “State the Obvious” Ravi Shastri Method of Commentary by stating: “he IPL was interesting. Some predictable results , others not so. It is warming up in So Africa for the semi final positionings and the coming days shall see heart stopping action and play.” Yeah, sure! We would never have known, would we?

More significantly, AB seems a tad miffed by the fact that Indian skipper MS Dhoni has not responded to the congratulatory SMS he sent to him for being awarded the Padma Sri. He evidently has even gone and expressed his disappointment in this regard to John Abraham (”I complain to John about Mahi not responding to the message of greeting I had sent him on his decoration of the Padma Shri”) and Harbhajan Singh (”I had wished Harbhajan too on his Padma Shri and we had spoken to each other about my message to Mahi. He had ,even, graciously passed on my greetings to him. But still no response.”)

Finally, the Big Man of Indian Cinema concludes philosophically: “Must have been busy. John has given me his mobile now and said he shall have a word with him on this. No sweat. So long as Dhoni keeps whacking the hell out of the opposition, I am fine.”

Gosh, we knew Dhoni was important but this takes the cake – he has got the shahenshah of bollywood waiting for his call and even complaining about not getting any (calls, we mean, of course, naughties!).

Of course, he has now got MSD’s phone number now (aha!) so now we know who will be calling when his phone rings in South Africa. Incidentally, you can read the entire thrilling entry here.