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The wedding of Indian men’s cricket captain Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma in Italy earlier this week was greeted in traditional and social media with much alacrity, with their tasteful wedding photographs going viral online. It also reminded many of ‘Tiger’ Pataudi and Sharmila Tagore’s fairy tale wedding in 1969. There have been other such romantic unions as well — Mohammad Azharuddin and Sangeeta Bijlani, Harbajan Singh and Geeta Basra, and more recently Zaheer Khan and Sagarika Ghatge. Though cricket and cinema are arguably the two lodestars of Indian popular imagination, few films have been made on the sport.