New Delhi: Bollywood celebrities are quite famous for doing charity events and other philanthropist works. How can we miss out Salman Khan’s ‘Being Human’ foundation? Interestingly, this is not the only one organisation being run by a superstar, the list has many more names.
But this time, the celebs have come up with a different way to raise charity.
In this one-of-a-kind event, the dashing hunks of B-town will now be locking horns with Members of Parliament in the football ground.
Yes! You read that right. The two teams will have a face-off football match.
The Bollywood team will be headed by Abhishek Bachchan and will feature Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Dino Morea, Aditya Roy Kapur, Armaan Jain, Kartik Aryan, choreographer Marc Robinson and filmmaker Shoojit Sircar, TV actors Shabir Ahluwalia and Karan Wahi, among others.
These celebs will be playing opposite a dozen of MPs, and will have Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon as the chief guests of the event. The match will be held on June 11 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
“The idea came from Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State (Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) and Arjuna awardee and ace footballer Prasun Banerjee, who is now the MP from Howrah. They thought a match against the popular celebrity team could be turned into a ticketed event. However, they refused to take the field, arguing that younger, fitter MPs are easier on the eye. Prasun came on board as mentor and Rudy announced that 50% of the funds raised would be donated to the skills development initiative,” said Ameet Mehta told a leading daily. Ameet's organisation is spearheading the initiative along with Bunty Walia's All Stars Football Club (ASFC) for the charity match.
Talking about the event, Ameet confessed that it was pretty difficult to convince the MPs to prep for the match. However, around 14 MPs of all ages signed the acceptance letter over a period of six months.
The MP team is led by singer-turned-politician Babul Supriyo and comprises of actor-politician Manoj Tiwari, three MPs from Uttar Pradesh Anshul Verma, Kamlesh Paswan and Keshav Prasad Mourya and Saumitra Khan and Anupam Hazra from West Bengal. There's also Parvesh Verma, MP from West Delhi and son of late Delhi CM Saheb Singh Verma, along with MP from Rajmahal, Jharkhand, Vijay Kumar Hansdak, and Rajasthan politicos Rahul Kaswan and Devji Patel. Abhishek Singh, son of Chhatisgarh CM Raman Singh, and North Mumbai MP Gopal Shetty are also taking part.
Get set to witness the epic Celebs Vs MLAs match.
