Film star Aamir Khan touched Arjun Award winner Kripashankar Patel’s feet as soon as he saw him. Patel, who hails from Indore, tried to stop him but he did not listen. Then he hugged him and said that I get energy when I meet him. Kripashankar Patel reached Aamir Khan’s house in Mumbai on Monday. The actor welcomed and honoured all the railway wrestlers on their arrival at his home. In this meeting that lasted for 2 hours, many aspects of Indian wrestling were discussed. Patel also told Aamir an anecdote about his return to Indore with the Arjun Award. Hearing this, Aamir started laughing loudly. Aamir considers Kripashankar Patel as his Guru in wrestling. Kripashankar taught him wrestling for the movie Dangal. He used to practice wrestling during the shooting of Dangal. See the sequence of events from touching Aamir’s feet to hugging him in 4 pictures. The anecdote narrated by Kripashankar Patel. Patel told Aamir – I received the Arjun Award for wrestling in the year 2000. I was returning from Delhi to Indore with the award. Some people were sitting in front of me in the AC coach of Nizamuddin Express train and were reading newspapers. Seeing my photo in it, he said, look, our wrestler from Indore has got Arjun Award. But they could not recognize me. After some time, I reached Nagda railway station before Ujjain. There, 200 people came to the station with drums and flowers to welcome me. They were shouting slogans, Kripashankar Patel Zindabad. Hearing this, I came to the gate of the coach. But even those welcoming me could not recognize me. After a long time, a wrestler recognized me. And after this, he lifted me on his shoulder. Seeing this, the people coming with me in the coach were also surprised that he came with us all the way but we could not recognize him. Hearing this, Aamir started laughing loudly. Invited to the wrestling organized by the railways
Kripashankar Patel also made Aamir Khan talk to former Indore MLA Akash Vijayvargiya. Aamir also congratulated Akash for the international wrestling competition of women wrestlers. Akash also invited Aamir to come to Indore. Patel told that about 80 star wrestlers of the Indian Railway wrestling team met Aamir at his home. During this, he was honoured by Dronacharya Award winner Sujeet Maan, Arjuna Award winner Shaukendra Tomar, Surendra Kadyan along with coaches and wrestlers under the leadership of Indian Railway Wrestling Team Manager Rakesh Dubey by giving him a memento for his excellent wrestling scenes and unmatched success in the movie Dangal.
