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Bollywood stars gear up to watch IPL

Last updated on: April 5, 2012 18:06 IST

Image: Preity Zinta
Photographs: Atul Yadav/PTI
Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.

With close to two dozen films scheduled to release during the Indian Premiere League season, Bollywood is clearly not feeling threatened by cricket and in fact are excited about its beginning.

Bipasha Basu tweeted: 'Ipl begins! I love CSK bcoz of Mahi N I love MI bcoz am frm Mumbai!Torn apart today!Who do I cheer for? Well MI KKR and CSK my fav teams:)'

Abhishek Bachchan has his Mumbai Indians jersey ready. 'Finally got my new Mumbai Indians jersey. Made a small change to the number though :-) #MI #MIpaltan4ever #sachin,' he tweeted with the picture.  

Preity Zinta is excited for her team. 'IPL Starts n I'm in the middle of Ishkq In Paris! Hands r full & heart is beating Fast ! GO KXIP :-)' she tweeted with the picture. 

She is also performing during one of the matches. 'On 8th #KXIP play Pune & I'll be performing at the stadium! Doing it 4 Ganesh Hegde who I started my career with n OMG Im NERVOUS !
Its been 3 and a half years since I last performed on stage . Suddenly the butterflies have doubled ..... !!!!' she added.

Meanwhile, Amitabh Bachchan updated: 'Back home from Chennai and IPL and cricketers we admire, to the admiration of family, big and small.'

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Music composer A R Rahman shared a glimpse of his next Hollywood movie People Like Us and tweeted: 'For those eager to get a glimpse of my next Hollywood movie, here is the first trailer of "People Like Us". You...' 

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Ajay Devgn shared the exclusive teaser of his upcoming film Tezz and tweeted: 'Hi guys, just wrapped a hectic day. Thought i'd give u'll a glimpse of one of my favourite dialogues from #tezz, enjoy!' 

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Tweet Pix

Image: Riteish Deshmukh, Shazahn Padamsee and Genelia D'Souza

Shazahn Padamsee shared a picture of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza with her and tweeted: 'The cutest twosome ever!! @Riteishd and @geneliad' 

She shared another picture with Akshay Kumar and added: 'Hanging out with mister prankster himself @akshaykumar ;-)'