New Delhi, Mar 16 (): Bollywood stars are playing cricket with the real cricket stars on 30th of March 2013 to raise funds for one of largest non-profit organizations of India -Magic Bus.
Filmmaker Bunty Walia was planning an All Stars Football Club (ASFC) – a property of charitable trust, playing for Humanity – that would be professionally managed by his company, GS Worldwide Entertainment. Now, the latest news is ASFC has finally been developed and Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan is being roped in to lead the star-studded Bollywood team.
Along with Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and several others will play their first game on 30th of March 2013 against the Indian Cricket Team lead by Captain Virat Kohli.
The aim of the India’s largest non-profit organization -Magic Bus is to work towards building a better future for over a million children living in poverty from childhood. The process of giving them good employment and making them earning members can be achieved using the ever growing game of football in India as a platform.
“Playing for Humanity” looks to bring Sports and Entertainment together to demonstrate each other’s strengths by adding immense value to the business of brands. All Stars Football Club has revealed that the money collected would be donated for those poor children in India.
Abhishek Bachchan said that ASFC is a lot of fun. They had planned to do great work. They aim at raising the awareness for a great game, to popularizing it and raising funds and that it is a very noble gesture and he is looking forward to play.
Ranbir Kapoor said he was fortunate to be one of the founders of the club. Bunty Walia (GS Entertainment) came up with this brilliant idea and all the profits go to the charity organizations and he thought it was a great cause.
The ASFC Team
1. Abhishek Bachchan
2. Ranbir Kapoor
3. Varun Dhawan
4. Dino Morea
5. Arjun Kapoor
6. Leander Paes
7. Ritwik Bhattacharya
8. Shabir Ahluwalia
9. Marc Robinson
10.Karan Wahi
11.Sachiin Joshi
12. Adtiya Roy Kapoor
13. Raj Kundra
14. Caesar Gonsalves
15. Amit Sadh
16. Ameet Gaur
17. Romeo Gates
18. Mazar Dalvi
19. Jas Binag
20. Rohan Shrestha
21. Jignesh Antala
22. Nishant Mehra