Aamir Khan talks about sports in India in the premiere episode of ‘Satyamev Jayate 3’

The first episode, that premiered today simultaneously on Star Plus and DD National, talked about Sports and how they can change one's life.

The show with cause ‘Satyamev Jayate’ is back with its third season.

The show with a cause ‘Satyamev Jayate’ is back with its third season. The first episode, that premiered today simultaneously on Star Plus and DD National, talked about Sports and how they can change one’s life.

To begin with, as the show’s format goes, there was an inspirational story of juvenile Akhilesh Kumar who was a drug addict, but was tempted into playing football instead of doing drugs. He went ahead to coach children in a red light area and even captaining his side in Homeless World Cup in Brazil in 2010.

Next guests were wrestler sisters Babita Kumari and Gita Kumari and how their father made wrestling change their future and brought them in pace with the male population.

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Saina Nehwal made a special appearance in the episode and shared her story.

There was also a story of a nine-year-old pro golfer Shubham Jaglan. Sports lawyer Rahul Mehra also spoke of the need of a sports law to ensure the equal and fair promotion of every sport by the government, not just cricket. And thankfully, there was no mention of cricket in the whole episode.

Cricketing legend, Sachin Tendulkar, quite liked the whole concept and took to Twitter to express his appreciation.

Aamir’s @satyamevjayate episode was a déjà vu for me, sports4all will change country’s future #MumkinHai

— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) October 5, 2014

Kiran Bedi also tweeted to show her support.

Felt very good watching prog of @aamir_khan on #MumkinHai on sports! He has spread out for sports what @PMOIndia did for #SwachhBharat

— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) October 5, 2014

Cricket commentator, Harsha Bhogle, was in disagreement with certain points mentioned in the show.

objective of sport though isn’t only to produce champions. it is to enrich yourself. one of the few great forces of our time #satyamevjayate

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 5, 2014

only point i disagree on is sportspersons running sports bodies. they might but not certain they can. need other qualities. #satyamevjayate

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 5, 2014

The first episode of season 3 looked good and the season, surely, looks promising. We can’t wait for Aamir Khan to grace our TV screens next Sunday and take on some other graver problems of/in the Indian society.

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