We admire sportsmen and actors in India, the kind of following both earns is simply priceless. None in our country receive so much affection than both of them, now if this is taken into account, let us imagine how much their favorite player’s or actor’s relationship status fascinates? Yes, that is beyond words. There is always a possible relationship between cricket and Bollywood, right from the beginning there are many occasions in which some popular cricketer has dated a Bollywood actress.
In our generation, Virat Kohli and actress Anushka Sharma could unanimously stand as the country’s best couple. But, back in those days in the early 2000s, a story that got unfolded in front of the popular media was of Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and South Indian actress Nagma.
The actress has back then confessed that indeed there was something between India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and her. She told women’s magazine Savvy: “Whatever one says, nobody has denied anything. As long as there is no denial of each other’s existence in each other’s life, any person can say anything they want.”
In the latest issue of the magazine, Nagma explains why she kept silent all this while. “There was a career at stake, besides other things, so, one had to part. One had to weigh a lot of things, rather than be on an ego trip and insist on being together,” she added.
She said was forced to end the relationship in the interest of the nation. “A smaller interest had to be sacrificed for bigger interests… When a game is being played, people should understand it is a sport. It’s very weird that people started getting carried away. Whenever India played, people said that a person was not doing well because he was emotionally attached. This is so juvenile.
“When it becomes too much, it starts affecting the interest of one another. Then slowly, though you’re supposed to bring happiness to a person’s life, you bring misery. Then it’s in the best interests to move on.” She added: “Love and respect for each other will remain.”
The news was on a high swing during the Australian cricket tour of India in 2003, Ganguly and Nagma visited the Srikalahasti temple in Tirupati together.
Moreover, this is not the first time that the stories of love and curiosity have ended up, there are many other of this kind. Many yet unspoken.