5 interesting kabaddi facts that you may not be aware of

#2 Kabaddi in reel life

A host of Indian movies have the sport as the crux of their story signifying the immense popularity of the sport. Tamil movies like “Ghilli”, and “Vanilla Kabbadi Kuzhu”, revolving around the sport, were crackers among the audience. The Telugu and Kannada film industry, too, had their share of kabaddi inspired films like “Okkadu” and “Ajay” respectively. Bollywood movie, “Badlapur Boys”, set the cash registers ringing.

Punjabi movie, “Kabaddi Once Again”, by Sukhminder Dhanjal cast a real-life athlete, Varinder Singh. Also Mukta Barve, the Indian actress won an award in 2007 for donning the role of a kabaddi admirer in a commercial play.