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It was as if the entire galaxy of stars had come down to the earth when Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath came together under one roof.

Amitabh Bachchan presented golden bats to Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Vishwanath during the celebration of 60 years of life of two of India's greatest cricketers. The stage was also shared by Sachin Tendulkar who was the chief guest at the function

Thursday evening saw a special presentation to commemorate two of the India’s greatest cricketers.
Gundappa Vishwanath and Sunil Gavaskar celebrated their respective sixtieth birthday and the event was organized to commemorate the occasion and to salute two of India’s finest cricketers.

Holding the stage were one of Bollywood’s finest yesteryear actors, Amitabh Bachchan, and India’s contemporary gem, Sachin Tendulkar.
Tendulkar himself is in line for greater felicitation completing 17000 ODI runs and also, two decades in cricket history on the 15th of November.
But the occasion belonged to the stalwarts and Bachchan lent his own eminence to the occasion. Amongst the many things discussed were the soft spoken anecdotes by Vishwanath, hair raising issues of helmets by Gavaskar and the advice by Imran Khan, former Pakistan captain, and Sachin Tendulkar seeking Bachchan work’s in “Black” that also starred Rani Mukherji.

It was mutual admiration both ways as Amitabh paid rich tributes to cricketers who in turn showered praise on the King of Indian cinema at a function to felicitate Gavaskar and Viswanath on their contributions to Indian cricket.

Tendulkar applauded Bachchan for his outstanding role in the film Black, saying he had never seen any performance like that.
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