Hyderabad, July 20 -- As fans across Hyderabad settled in for the World Cup final, bar and cafe owners had one more instruction to follow: play a video of Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy playing football with the Argentina star Lionel Messi before kickoff and at halftime.

Owners of two cafes in Hyderabad, Monastery located in Knowledge City and Fat Pigeon located in Jubilee Hills, confirmed to Siasat.com that they had been directed by officials to show the video as a gesture of gratitude for permitting them to be open until late hours of the night to broadcast the FIFA World Cup final.

"Yes, we played the video during the broadcast as per directions received," said an official at Monastery. However, another bar in Knowledge City ...