Kollywood Superstars Becoming Sports Fans
Karthick Rajkumar (Author) Published Date : Mar 20, 2018 12:46 ISTMovie News
Tamil super actors are becoming fans of Sports and this has become a recent trend now.As a part of the entertainment, apart from watching movies, the audience also show passion for Cricket matches. Nowadays, not only Cricket, Audience are also supporting other sports as well. This is because; every sport is holding separate leagues, thus gaining popularity among the vast audience. Also, social media and newspapers display a vast coverage of such new sports leagues recent times.
Already Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinda had owned separate cricket teams in Indian Premier League (IPL). Also, Actor Abhishek Bachchan and MS Dhoni had founded a football club based in Chennai and named it as Chennaiyin FC in Indian Super League (ISL) in 2014.
Following this, South Indian superstar Rajnikanth also attended the Indian Super League Opening ceremony held in 2015 showing his interest in football.
In these circumstances, Chennaiyin FC lifted the ISL 2018 trophy for the second time in the final held between Chennaiyin FC and Bengaluru FC. In response to this, Actor Surya congratulated the football team owner Abhishek Bachchan.In his reply to Surya, Abhishek tweeted that he must attend the next season.
Interestingly, Actor Surya had already played as a Football player in "Sillunu Oru Kaadhal" movie.
In addition to the above, Thala Ajith is currently involved in gun shooting practice which is a trending news of Tamil Cinema Industry and trusted sources have also speculated that similar to Car and Bike Racing, the actor would participate in state level and national level competitions for Gun Shooting soon.
It is to be noted that Ajith had already participated in international level car racing competitions.