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Personality

Hitting a six on

the silver screen

Suguna Sundaram writes about the eternal romance between cricket personalities and
film stars

There are two things that the vast Indian populace SHARMILA TAGORE & MANSOOR ALI
indulges in unashamedly and lives vicariously KHAN PATAUDI
through -- Cinema and Cricket. The hits and the
misses, the love and the kisses, all thrill us like
nothing else does. And the icing on the cake is
the age-old connection between the two. With
both the professions, acting and being a cricketer,

racking up glamour and adulation in spades, it is
inevitable that there is a magnetic pull between
the practitioners of the two professions. Long have
we the heard the hushed stories of affairs between
cricketers and the glamorous heroines of the
Bollywood industry.
Over time, the attraction still seems to draw, and
scores high with the public too- not just the matches
on the cricket pitch, but the ones that make it to the 1965: Royalty by birth, and cricketing prince too,

gossip pages and sometimes, all the way to the altar Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan (Tiger) of Pataudi,
too. The most recent one being the highly public then the youngest captain of the Indian cricket
relationship and marriage of skipper Virat Kohli team, met the stunning fresh-faced Bollywood sex
and Bollywood A-lister, actor Anushka Sharma. symbol, the talented Sharmila Tagore, descendant
Let’s take a walk down the old stadiums where of none other than India’s most noted literary
Cupid, cricket and cinema played the pitch together. figure, Rabindranath Tagore, at an after-match

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