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Punchline The Great Khali
He is warm, endearing and brimming with rustic charm. No, the story is not being written out of fear. Khali might be a monster in the ring, but out of it he is a gentle giant ready to shake hands as tenderly as possible. It’s another matter that one’s hand ends almost where his lifeline starts. Khali is Dalip Singh Rana from Himachal Pradesh.
WWE might be selling him as a brute, who fought with tigers in the jungles of India, and a section of the Indian media has been feeding on it, but Dalip laughs when one talks about his wild image. “The Indian media has made me more tired than the fights in the ring.”
Yes, he demolished the likes of Undertaker and went on to become the WWE champion. “The fight I cherish the most is the one where I knocked down 22 fighters to win the belt.”
Was language an issue? “I learnt that as well… so well that now I only understand an American accent,” he quips.
But losing one’s identity must be hard… from Dalip to Khali is said to be a religious story? “It’s being made out to be as if I worship only Kali, and Americans pronounce it as Khali. I worship all Gods. During my early days in the U.S., people taunted me. So I asked my guruji what to do. He suggested, just say Kali mata ki jai. ”
ANUJ KUMAR
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