A cricket tournament ‘Celebrity Cricket League’ involving five important film industries in India – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industry has been scheduled to happen in January 2011.

Kannada cine artiste team is lead by Kichcha Sudeep as captain and super power star Puneeth Rajakumar is Icon Player. It is ‘called Bengaluru Royals’ (Like Royal challengers Bangalore). The bid amount for the extravaganza has been announced. An amount of Rs.17 crore minimum bid for 10 years has been announced by one of the organizers Vishnu Vardhan Induri on Tuesday.

Vishnu Vardhana is in the team of Radhika Sarath Kumar, Sreenivasulu Moorthy and Triumal Reddy. In Chennai the color of dresses for the playing five team will be announced soon said Vishnu Vardhana. The bid amount of Mumbai Heroes is a secret he answered to a question from the media.

The superstars of five language film industries will be in action on January 22 and 23 in Bangalore. The semi final and final matches will be held at Hyderabad on 29th and 30th January 2011.

This is a fine opportunity to know each other informed Kannada cinema Artists Association President Ambarish who declared the names of Sueep and Puneeth Rajakumar as captain and icon player respectively.

Kichcha Sudeep as captain said Cricket and Cinema are widely watched and people express sentiments for it. As a captain I will work with commitment and I expect the same from colleagues he informed.

Power star Puneeth Rajakumar, Upendra, Thara, Raghavendra Rajakumar, Rockline Venkatesh and Doddanna were present at the media address. Nidhi Subbaiah, Kriti Kharbanda and other stars joined the event when the party was thrown open.

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