SRK tweets for women hockey

Bollywood megaster Shahrukh Khan, who played a non-nonsense women hockey coach in the film Chak De! India, is saddened by the plight of women players of the sport in real life.

"Films reflect reality and how it will be good in the end. But real life is so tough. Happy endings are a rarity," tweeted Khan in one of his latest posts reacting to the protest by thewomen hockey players.

The Bollywood actor, who earlier came out in support of the men's hockey team that boycotted practice session ahead of World Cup owing to non-payment of dues, spoke his mind in favour of the women's team that revolted on similar ground.

"Though Chak De will be good for revival of hockey. Reading the plight of women's team, should think on ways of survival of hockey. All of us, " he wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.

SRK said there is no respect for India's sporting heroes and went on to name Sunil Gavaskar, Aslam Sher Khan, Dhanraj Pillai, Sachin Tendulkar, Viswanathan Anand, PT Usha, Abhinav Bindra and Pargat Singh.