Mumbai: Indian chess grandmaster and former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand will play a ‘Checkmate Covid’ match towards the nation’s celebrities and businessmen to lift funds for the Akshaya Patra Foundation’s COVID-19 reduction efforts.
The ‘Checkmate Covid’ collection will function 5-time world champion, Viswanathan Anand, enjoying ten Indian celebrities and enterprise leaders – 5 in one-hour simulation video games directly. These embrace Aamir Khan, Kiccha Sudeep, Riteish Deshmukh, singer Arijit Singh, singer-songwriter Ananya Birla, cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, Xiaomi India MD Manu Kumar Jain, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, producers Sajid Nadiadwala and Parchura Padakannaya.
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All proceeds from this charity occasion will go to serving helpless people and their households who’re combating starvation throughout this devastating second wave of the pandemic.
The charity occasion is part of the Checkmate COVID-Celebrity Edition by Chess.com India and in affiliation with Akshaya Patra, Prachura Padakannaya, CEO – Extra Talent Management, can also be part of the occasion. It will probably be held on June 13, 2021, at 5.00 PM and will probably be live-streamed on India’s official YouTube channel Chess.com.
Akshaya Patra Foundation is serving reduction meals in 19 states and one union territory by means of its community. Since March 2020, the inspiration has served meals to over 128 million helpless people who find themselves going through problem in arranging meals for themselves because of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to include the outbreak.
Meanwhile, talking on the work entrance, Aamir Khan will probably be subsequent seen that includes in a lead function within the upcoming film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ reverse Kareena Kapoor Khan. This film is the Hindi remake of the 1994 American movie ‘Forrest Gump’ which starred Tom Hanks within the lead function.
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