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Bollywood’s top actor, Amitabh Bachchan, has been hoping for friendly relations between India and Pakistan as he reminiscence the ‘once’ warm relations and cultural exchange between both countries.

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He penned down an excellent piece in The Indian Express about how once cricket and Bollywood films have kept the people of two countries connected.

Amitabh Bachchan in his article especially talked about the much-loved hug between Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Pakistani skipper Babar Azam and wicket-keeper batter Muhammad Rizwan after Pakistan defeated India by 10 wickets in the first match of the T20 World Cup.

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Sometimes they nestle in the warmth of the hug that went viral, that India’s captain Virat Kohli gave to Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam, after the men in green defeated the men in blue in the first game of the T20 World Cup that concluded in Dubai recently,” he added in his article.

“For, the stories we tell can often become larger than us, and they can skip lightly across borders, sometimes riding on cricket, sometimes through film” he wrote.

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