MUMBAI, July 25: Cricketer Irfan Pathan will be seen as the first wild-card entry on the celebrity dance show “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded” and he says whatever he earns from his stint will be used for his cricket academy.
Irfan and cricketer brother Yusuf Pathan have a joint foundation called Cricket Academy of Pathans, which is a self-funded project for the under-privileged children.
“We have a foundation- Cricket Academy of Pathans- and it is our dream project that we launched last year,” Irfan told.
“It is a self funded project where we help under-privileged children… Coach them, give them equipments and other things. So whatever funding I get from here, we will use it there.”
For Irfan, a self-confessed non-dancer, the challenge of grooving on a national platform made him sign “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded”.
“This offer came to me and I took it as a challenge. It took time for me to accept the show… I took two-three months. I am a non-dancer. And this show is about the journey of non dancers and this thing attracted me to do the show,” he said.
“This is off season of cricket so I thought of taking up this new challenge. I will be able to learn one or two moves.”
The all-rounder thinks if there is a fun element involved in a song then he enjoys it a bit more. He has started the rehearsals and he is having a tough time.
“It has just been two days since I started rehearsing and I am finding it difficult. I think hitting fours, sixes, playing cricket is easy. But that (cricket) is also difficult thing as you go out there and play the game,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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