Mumbai: After Nana Patekar and Akshay Kumar extended their support to several drought-affected villages of Maharashtra, Aamir Khan too has joined the bandwagon and has adopted two villages that have been adversely affected by drought.
According to reports, Aamir recently visited drought affected regions of the state and came across two of the most adversely affected villages, Tal and Koregaon and decided to adopt them.
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This is not the first time that Aamir has done this. He had earlier adopted villages in Kutch in Gujarat after the worst earthquake ever in 2001.
Recently, as part of the water conservation awareness campaign, Aamir had also recently visited Beed from Aurangabad, one of the three worst affected districts in Maharashtra and applauded Maharashtra government's Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyaan.
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Apart from Aamir, Nana along with a few actors from the Marathi film industry, took up a fund-raising initiative to help the agrarian families. Akshay too come forward to wholeheartedly support the initiative and donated Rs 50 lakh towards the state-led initiative.
On work front, Aamir is gearing up for the release of Nitesh Tiwari's 'Dangal'.The film revolves around Mahavir Phogat who teaches wrestling to his two daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat.
