Anjali reveals the price Sachin pays for being national icon

New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The master went in disguise, but
it did not help!
An interesting nugget about the price that master batsman
Sachin Tendulkar has paid for being a national icon has been
revealed by his wife Anjali, who is a doctor.
Anjali recalled how Tendulkar, who completes 20 years of
international cricket Sunday, had to come in disguise to
watch a movie during their courtship but the plan went haywire
very soon and the couple had to leave the hall midway through
the film.
"... We had gone to see the movie Roja. I was studying
medicine then and a couple of my friends planned. Sachin did
try telling me that it would be difficult but I insisted that
he come along. To make sure nobody recognised him, we even got
him a beard.
"He wore specs as well and we went in late. We watched
the first half of the film, but during the interval, Sachin
dropped his specs and people immediately recognised him. It
was a bit of disaster and we were forced to leave halfway,"
she said in a published interview.
Ignorant about cricket when she first started dating
Tendulkar, Anjali said she read up everything about the game
soon after but the man himself didn't like discussing the
sport at home. MORE PTI