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Celebrated Indian actors join forces for COVID-19 awareness video

Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:51

Some of the big names of the Indian film industry have come together to highlight the importance of social distancing to fight COVID-19.

The four-minute-35-second-long star-studded video centres around the legendary Amitabh Bachchan and his missing sunglasses.

Soon, his peers, from across different parts of India, step up to help him.

Prasoon Pandey, who conceptualised and virtually directed the short, drives home the need to stay home.

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It features Diljit Dosanjh, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Rajnikanth, Mammootty, Mohanlal, Sonalee, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Shiva Rajkumar.

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