Vidya Balan has rubbished reports claiming that she will be the brand ambassador for the embattled Kochi IPL team.
Vidya Balan has rubbished reports claiming that she will be the brand ambassador for the embattled Kochi IPL team. The actress who belongs to a Palakkad Brahmin family was the fan favourite to be the ambassador for the team from Kerala, but Balan said that she has not even been approached with a proposal. "I have no clue about it and no one has approached me yet," she said. So as of now, fans of the 31-year-old actress will not be seeing her cheering from the stands. While leading actors like Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty are team owners, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone are the ambassadors for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team.
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Vidya also refused to comment on the controversy surrounding the spat between IPL Chairman Lalit Modi and Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. The Kochi franchise ran into controversy when Modi publicly disclosed the names of some of the owners of a consortium that recently bought the team for a whopping USD 333 million. Out of this free equity, 19 per cent is said to have gone to Sunanda Pushkar, a Kashmiri beautician closely linked to Tharoor.
