Amitabh Bachchan turns commentator for Indo-Pak cricket match

February 02, 2015 13:42 IST

The Bachchan Baritone just got bigger.

On February 15, when India plays a cricket match against Pakistan at Adelaide, Amitabh Bachchan will be doing the commentary alongside Harsha Bhogle and Kapil Dev.

Confirming this, his Shamitabh director R Balki says, “Mr Bachchan’s voice is the star of my film Shamitabh. The plot revolves around the baritone. I personally feel -- and there are millions who will agree with me -- that there is nothing Mr Bachchan’s voice

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cannot do. He has done voice-overs in many feature films and has also lent his throat to documentaries and social causes. The one thing that he hadn’t done was cricket commentary.”

Apparently, the idea of getting the Big B to do something so universally appealing as cricket commentary is a double strategy. It not only serves as a great promotion of Shamitabh, it also binds the two nations together.

"I think the two voices of Lata Mangeshkar and Amitabh Bachchan unite India and Pakistan better than anything else," Balki adds.

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Subhash K Jha