Bollywood actress and savvy businesswoman, Preity Zinta, has a new business in the works; she is starting an all-girl’s international basketball team, called the Dream Girls.
Zinta already has a strong imprint in the Indian sports market as a board member and chairperson of the Kings XI Punjab team, which is part of one of cricket’s biggest and most profitable leagues - the Indian Premier League.
“Nobody knows I’ve been a gymnast for 11 years, I did karate for 9 years, I am very good at basketball and I rifle shoot too,” she says about her sporting background. “The players will be internationally-famous women like film stars, supermodels, socialites and, of course, there’ll be me - the captain - and we’ll be playing with professional basketball teams around the world,” she says, “American experts from NBA will train us.” Preity is listed at 5 feet 5 inches.
We admire the initiative, and wish them good luck in 2010 and beyond. The questions are: Who are the girls? Who are the trainers? Is this just a dream or will these girls actually assemble and hit the courts in competitive games?
About Preity Zinta (taken from the Kings XI Punjab website)
Preity Zinta, a well renowned film actor is a co-promoter of the IPL’s King XI Punjab and is responsible for actively promoting her team along with her partners.
Preity is an ardent sports lover and has been keenly following various sports like football and hockey since her college days. Cricket is a newly found love for Preity and has recently started taking lot of interest in the game. Preity, a part of the dynamic team of co promoters for Kings XI Punjab team, has been traveling all across the country and promoting the team will all zeal.
Preity’s first movie was Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se, since then there has been no looking back. In the span of a decade, Preity has given a huge number of box office hits. Preity’s screen presence, charm and down to earth personality has made her have one of the largest fan following in the country.
With banners and films like Rakesh Roshan’s ‘Koi Mil Gaya’, Nikhil Advani’s ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ ,Siddhart Anand’s ‘Salaam Namaste’, and Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ , Preity has carved out a niche for herself in the film fraternity. The road ahead looks even better, with good projects with Yash Chopra, Karan Johar and Farhan Akhtar. However, Preity, a relentless self-improver, doesn’t take her success lightly.
Besides acting, Preity also writes columns for BBC.
