NEW DELHI: The top Bollywood actress, Dia Mirza has unlocked her lips on the matters associated to cricket as soon as Shoaib Akhtar got his place in the Pakistan squad.
Showing her cricket intellect at the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum, Dia Mirza was of the view that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has changed the face of the game by inter-mingling with it fun and glamour (Bollywood).
Glamour was always there in cricket from dates back in the 1980s, when Indian and Pakistani showbiz people used to visit Sharjah on consistent basis to watch the arch-rivals play the game. However, the indulgence of stars in cricket has emerged a new cricket industry in the world, termed as Cricketainment.
“Before the IPL, not everyone would have preferred to watch cricket, but now the IPL or cricket has become the buzz in the town all across the world”, she added.
“IPL has added the masala of glamour to lift it to a new level called Cricketainment and now it’s a product that can lure any audience in the world”, she said.
A bunch of Bollywood stars including Salman Khan, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu and Anupam Kher were in Sri Lanka to first attend the IIFA Awards and then to play a charity match against Sri Lanka, but controversies never stopped chasing them as back in India a group of people started propagation against the event.
Praising IIFA for the feat, Dia Mirza commented, “IIFA has done a great job by holding such an event which is important in a way that it brings the two nations closer and would help in future to bridge the gulf among India and Sri Lanka”.
