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NEW DELHI: Pop awareness Katy Perry is to accomplish at the aperture of the Indian Premier League, organisers said Tuesday, in a acknowledgment to the country area she closed her blighted alliance to banana Russell Brand.

Perry is amid a host of celebrities who will booty the date in southern Chennai on April 3, a day afore the money-spinning candid alliance gets beneath way, the Board of Control for Candid in India (BCCI) said.

The BCCI, which owns and organises the anniversary tournament, promised an "unforgettable" alpha to the
fifth copy of the league, with Bollywood fable Amitabh Bachchan and arch extra Priyanka Chopra additionally set to appear.

"The action and boldness of her (Perry's) music matches that of the antagonism and we attending advanced to an aggressive achievement from her," IPL administrator Rajeev Shukla said in a statement.

Perry, 27, fabricated after-effects in India two years ago for her absurd Hindu bells to British banana Brand in Jaipur, a day-tripper hotspot in the western accompaniment of Rajasthan.

The brace breach in December aftermost year.

She is best accepted for hit songs, "Teenage Dream," California Gurls," and "I Kissed a Girl." Her admission anthology "One of the Boys" garnered two Grammy nominations, and her additional almanac "Teenage Dream" was accustomed six Grammy nods.