Abhishek Bachchan is a true 'sportsman' at heart

Abhishek Bachchan’s Bollywood career took off with his lead role in film Refugee which marked his debut as an actor in year 2002. Though born into an illustrious Bollywood family, he proved his acting capabilities and has to his credit a string of hit films like Main Prem Ki Deewani Hun, Yuva, Bunty Aur Babli, Sarkar, Dostana, Guru, Bluffmaster, Dhoom amongst many more. Apart from just being an actor, producer, playback singer and television host a little known fact about him is that he is a great basketball player too.

Speaking at an event recently, Abhishek expressed his love for sports and when asked about his favourite sport he replied, "I like watching all the different sports. I play football too but basketball is my sport."

He was an active sportsman and an avid basketball player during his school and graduation days. He showed keen interest in this Olympic sport and NBA was his first sports league which he supported earlier and does so till date.

Abhishek recently bought the Jaipur franchise of the Kabbadi league. Sharing his reasons for this move on his part he explained, "I feel sports is an integral part which is important and shouldn't be overlooked. We have to support sports like Kabbadi, Football, Basketball and others in India as there is a career in sports. India has great talent and we need more leagues to support them. I am very positive about the Kabbadi league which will start soon."

Abhishek Bachchan’s inclination towards sports is apparent even today as he devotes at least 2-3 hours a day for basketball and football too with his friends including actor Dino Morea. Los Angeles Lakers is his favourite basketball team.

Post Dhoom 3, presently he is working in several Bollywood films out of which Happy New Year is due for release this October 2014 followed by Dostana 2, Mere Apne among others.

Keen to make a film on sports sometime in the near future he concluded to say "In India, people still feel that sport is not a viable career like being a doctor or an engineer. I want to change that mindset.”

 

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