Key Points
The context was Indian cinema but if we try drawing a cricketing parallel, Virat Kohli could possibly have made arrogance look sexy like King Khan, and declared, "I am the last Indian cricketing megastar..
As exalted wife Anushka Sharma couldn't stop smiling, Kohli took a couple of bows to acknowledge the standing ovation from the man he had carried on his shoulders 12 years back at this very venue...
That was an ode to someone who carried Indian cricket on his shoulders for 21 years and today, at the same colosseum, Kohli with his "art of batsmanship" seemed to be carrying the ODI cricket on his shoulders...
For someone who has sent Old Trafford and Santiago Bernabeu into raptures with his curlers during his playing days, and now has sporting world's biggest bonafide superstar Lionel Messi in his payrolls for his club Inter-Miami, Beckham got a first-hand view of what an Indian sporting megastar looked like...
With bilateral ODIs being reduced to three-match series across the world in order to cater to market demands, it will be very difficult to predict if anyone in the next 15 years can surpass Kohli and earn the status of a megastar..
