Preity Zinta congratulates shooter Manu Bhaker for winning bronze medal
Preity Zinta: India won its first medal at Paris Olympics 2024. Everyone including Bollywood celebrities are celebrating this historic win. Preity Zinta and Taapsee Pannu also joined everyone and congratulated shooter Manu Bhaker for winning bronze medal at Paris Olympics 2024. On her Instagram stories, Preity Zinta shared Manu’s photo and wrote, “Congratulations @bhakermanu on winning India’s first medal at #olympics2024 #bronzemedal #shooting #parisolympics2024 #JaiHind #ting.” Taapsee also shared the photo and wrote, “Opening our Olympic medal tally with a bronze medal!!! Congratulations to this brilliant shooter.” This success is even more special as she has become the first woman to win a medal in shooting for India. An incredible achievement!,”
Manu Bhaker became the fifth shooter to win an Olympic medal in shooting after Abhinav Bindra, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Vijay Kumar and Gagan Narang. Manu Bhaker and Kim Yeji were shooting for second place in the final elimination round. Manu showed incredible grit by shooting 10.1 and 10.3 in her last two shots. Despite Kim only shooting 9.7 and 9.8, she managed to overtake Manu. In April, she announced that shooting begins. On her official Instagram account, Preity posted pictures and wrote: “On set for Lahore 1947,” with the hashtags ‘new film’ and ‘shooting’. ‘Lahore 1947’ is produced by Aamir Khan. Preity Zinta and Sunny Deol have previously worked together in several films such as Hero: Love Story of a Spy, Farz and Bhaiyaji Superhit. Sunny Deol last worked with Aamir Khan in the film ‘Lahore 1947’. She made a grand comeback with Gadar 2. The film turned out to be a huge blockbuster at the box office. Meanwhile, Taapsee Pannu is all set to return with Vikrant Massey and Sunny Kaushal in Hassan Dilruba. It is releasing on 9 August.
