Harbhajan Singh's movie Friendship
Harbhajan Singh’s movie Friendship poster: Youtube

Team India’s off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is going to work in the film industry. Harbhajan Singh’s first movie is ready to be released. Harbhajan Singh is to star in a Tamil movie named “Friendship”.

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He has also started promoting his film. He has released the film’s poster on social media. In this film of Harbhajan Singh, actor Arjun will be in the lead role. Also, the film is being directed by John Paul Raj and Sham Surya. If everything goes well then in August this film of Harbhajan Singh will be released.

Talking about the numbers in cricket, Harbhajan has taken 417 wickets in his international test career, he is ranked number 13 in the list of most wicket-takers in the world. At the same time, he is the third Indian to take the most wickets in Test cricket.

Harbhajan Singh has also taken 260 wickets in One Day International cricket. He is at number five in the list of players taking the most wickets from India. In the year 2007 when India won the T-20 World Cup, Harbhajan was also in that team.

He has played only 28 T-20I matches. Harbhajan Singh has also performed brilliantly in IPL also and he has taken 150 wickets in the IPL. He has been a part of the Chennai Super Kings, captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, from the year 2018, before which he has also played for Mumbai Indians for a long time. Harbhajan Singh made his international debut against Australia in the 1998 match played in Bengaluru, although he has been out of Team India for a long time now.

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Indian cricketers who have appeared in movies

Although Harbhajan Singh is not the only player who is going to appear in a movie after cricket. Many cricketers have done so, although no one could earn a big name there. If we talk about some of these, then Sunil Gavaskar, the former captain of the Indian team, was seen as a lead actor in the Marathi film ‘Savli Premachi’

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during his cricket career. This film did not do much. Apart from this, he was seen as a guest appearance in the comedy Hindi film Maalamaal released in 1988.

Apart from this, former cricketer Sandeep Patil worked in the film “Kabhi Ajnabi The”. Former wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani was also in the role of Villain in the same film. Salim Durani was the first Indian cricketer to move from cricket to Bollywood. Vinod Kambli and Ajay Jadeja have also appeared in the movies.

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Harbhajan Singh’s movie “Friendship” first look