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No time for sports: Sidharth
Actor Sidharth Shukla has been a sports freak all his life. He was a first division football player and he still remembers the match he played at the under-19 level against Real Madrid at Bombay Gymkhana.
"It was a very tight match where I'd tackled opponents and taken the ball from one side to the other side. Leonardo, the great 1985 Brazillian football player personally came up to me and congratulated me for my effort. That's something I'll cherish for the rest of my life," says Sidharth who was also the captain of his school's cricket team and ranked fourteen in the whole of Maharashtra in table tennis. So does he still get the time to play considering that he's playing the lead role in Ratna Sinha's Babul ka Aangan Chootey Na?
"My busy schedules don't allow me to pursue my interests, but I'm very passionate about bikes and recently I bought a 2008 Hayabusa from Singapore. I ride it all around town. The amusing thing is when I stop at signals, people come up to me and ask me various questions about my bike," he says proudly talking about how he's been very accident-prone and has got injured a lot of times. "I've met with accidents not because of bad driving, but due to some silly mistakes of my friends. Thankfully they were all minor accidents," says the 6'2 inches lad who was a runner-up at the Manhunt contest some years ago and had also been declared 'Best model of the world' in a compettion held at Istanbul (Turkey) where he beat models from 40 countries to achieve the title.
So while workwise things are great, what's on the pesonal front? "I am single. My love life is very boring. Jo pasand hai woh patati nahin aur jo patati hai woh pasand nahin aati," trails off Sidharth.
Actor Sidharth Shukla has been a sports freak all his life. He was a first division football player and he still remembers the match he played at the under-19 level against Real Madrid at Bombay Gymkhana.
"It was a very tight match where I'd tackled opponents and taken the ball from one side to the other side. Leonardo, the great 1985 Brazillian football player personally came up to me and congratulated me for my effort. That's something I'll cherish for the rest of my life," says Sidharth who was also the captain of his school's cricket team and ranked fourteen in the whole of Maharashtra in table tennis. So does he still get the time to play considering that he's playing the lead role in Ratna Sinha's Babul ka Aangan Chootey Na?
"My busy schedules don't allow me to pursue my interests, but I'm very passionate about bikes and recently I bought a 2008 Hayabusa from Singapore. I ride it all around town. The amusing thing is when I stop at signals, people come up to me and ask me various questions about my bike," he says proudly talking about how he's been very accident-prone and has got injured a lot of times. "I've met with accidents not because of bad driving, but due to some silly mistakes of my friends. Thankfully they were all minor accidents," says the 6'2 inches lad who was a runner-up at the Manhunt contest some years ago and had also been declared 'Best model of the world' in a compettion held at Istanbul (Turkey) where he beat models from 40 countries to achieve the title.
So while workwise things are great, what's on the pesonal front? "I am single. My love life is very boring. Jo pasand hai woh patati nahin aur jo patati hai woh pasand nahin aati," trails off Sidharth.
