Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her business partner Raj Kundra on Tuesday bought 12 per cent stake (investing $15.4 million) in the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals. The news has been confirmed by Rajasthan Royals owner Manoj Badale said
Shilpa will be promoting the team and will also make a misic video to promote the RR team.
Rajasthan Royals is an Indian Premier League (IPL) 20/20 team which is led by Australian spin legend Shane Warne. The team also has international stars like South African skipper Graeme Smith and Aussie all-rounder Shane Watson. Rajasthan Royals were the winners of the inaugural year of the Twenty20 event in 2008. The website of Rajasthan Royals is:
http://www.rajasthanroyals.com/
Shilpa is the third Bollywood star after Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta to buy a stake in IPL teams. While Shah Rukh owns Kolkata Knight Riders, Preity has a stake in Kings XI Punjab, the semi-finalists last year.
More about Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty is a leading Bollywood film star / actress and winner of Big Brother in UK. Shilpa Shetty made her debut in the film Baazigar (1993) and since then she has appeared in nearly 50 Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada language films.
After taking part in the British Celebrity Big Brother TV show in 2007, Shetty was crowned the winner with 63% of the final vote, after an international racism controversy involving her and fellow contestants Jade Goody, Jo O’Meara and Danielle Lloyd. This was followed by her comeback to films in 2007 when she acted in two successive movies, Life in a… Metro and Apne, with her performance in the former drawing positive reviews.
She was the host of Indian version of Big Boss concluded last year. She is also a fitness personality with her signature yoga CDs being sold around the world. iN 2007 Shetty was kissed several times in jest on the cheek by Richard Gere during an AIDS-awareness event which has become controversial in India.
Who is Raj Kundra
Raj Kundra is a UK-based entrepreneur who came into limelight after his closeness to Shilpa Shetty. Raj Kundra, 30, is a self-made millionaire who was the youngest person to appear on last year’s list of the Richest British Asians, in 198th position. Raj is Managing Director with his company in UK Tradecorp Limited (turnover Sterling 40 million), an international trading company deals in precious metals, stones, electronics. Raj won the young entrepreneur of the year at Natural History Museum in 2003 and was nominated at the Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Awards.