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The second edition of the Indian Super League (ISL) got off to a glittering start on Saturday night (October 3) in Chennai. The event saw the coming together of the whole Bachchan family to support actor Abhishek Bachchan's football team. Abhishek is the proud owner of the team Chennaiyin FC, who were the runners-up in the previous season of the league. (Source: Express Photo/Facebook)
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan took to Facebook to share a few pictures from the high-end glitzy opening ceremony.
Seen here are Big B's son and actor Abhishek Bachchan with his wife and former beauty queen Aishwarya Rai and daughter Aaradhya. (Source: Facebook)
Big B captioned the pictures, "Back from the opening event of the ISL football championship .. Chennain FC our team played AT Kolkata and lost 2-3 ..good game , great company .. and pray that we improve in the days to come .."
Aishwarya is often seen playing the role of a mother to perfection as her daughter accompanies her to most of the events. The mother-daughter duo were also seen visiting the various mandals during the Ganesh Festival in Mumbai. (Source: Facebook)
"The company was great - Rajnikant, Sachin and Alia and Arjun and Aishwarya and Abhishek and Shewta my daughter and Jaya .. and Mr Mukesh Ambani
Family is always best together .. and with Aaradhya especially," Big B has continued in his post.
Seen here is Big B, flanked by his wife and veteran actress Jaya Bachchan, Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, megastar Rajinikanth and Chairman, Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani. (Source: Facebook)
Aishwarya Rai, who is all set to make a comeback to the silver screen with Sanjay Gupta's directorial 'Jazbaa' co-starring Irrfan Khan, performed to a medley of her hit songs at the ceremony. The numbers included ‘Irumbile Irudhayam’ from Rajinikanth's ‘Enthiran’ and 'Dhoom Machaale' from 'Dhoom: 2'. (Source: PTI)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has shared screen space with Rajinikanth in 'Enthiran', touched his feet after her performance. (Source: PTI)
Pretty cool: After the ceremony, the host of the evening, Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor took to Twitter to share a selfie with his fans and followers, which had Aishwarya Rai, Alia Bhatt, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajinikanth and Founding Chairperson, ISL, Nita Ambani. He captioned the picture, "Not a big deal really just hanging with the COOLEST people in India !!! #ISL2015 opening ceremony #LetsFootball" (Source: Twitter)
Rajinikanth presents the match ball to Nita Ambani, while Aishwarya, Alia and Arjun look on. (Source: PTI)
Amitabh Bachchan was also snapped at the Mumbai Domestic airport as he returned from the opening ceremony. In one of the rare sightings, the megastar was spotted driving his car himself. (Source: Varinder Chawla)
Accompanying Big B was his elder daughter Shweta Nanda. (Source: Varinder Chawla)
