IPL 2023 opening ceremony: Arijit Singh, Rashmika Mandanna set the stage on fire - watch

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 kicked off with a grand ceremony. The opening ceremony of the cricket tournaments saw energetic performances by South Indian actresses Rashmika Mandanna and Tamannaah Bhatia.
Meanwhile, playback singer Arijit Singh captivated the audience with his melodiousyet power-packed performance on some of his superhits songs.

The biggest cricket event, hosted by Mandira Bedi, kicked off at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Arijit opened the night with his soothing voice as he sang some of his superhits, like Kesariya from Brahmastra, Channa Mereya from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, and Tujhe Kitna Chaahne Lagey Hum from Kabir Singh, among others. After Arijit, Tamanna set the stage on fire with her energetic performance onthe viral song Tum Tum from the Tamil film Enemy.

Tamanna was looking stunning in the silver-coloured body suit as she showed off her amazing dancing skills on the IPL stage.

The last performance of the night was by Rashmika, who made the stadium shout as she showed some of her killer dance moves. Mandanna gave a mind-blowing performance on the superhit track Saami Saami from the hit movie
Pushpa as she performedthe viral hook step.

Later, she also danced to the Oscar-winning song Nattu Nattufrom SS Rajamouli's film RRR.

Soon after the performance, Rashmika shared a video of her dancing and wrote, ''Doneee with the performanceeee at@IPL and what a blasttt it was.I wanted to perform on this as well today but I couldn’t so here’s a lil gift for all of you who have been asking for it…P.S. My entire IPL journey coming out sooooon.''

The videos of their performance quickly took the internet by storm.

Watch their performance here:

After the opening ceremony performances, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya, the captains of the Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans, respectively, joined Jay Shah and Arun Dhumal on stage before the start of the first match.