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Ice water Challenge goes viral in Bollywood

Bipasha, Akshay, Sonakshi and Sania Mirza post their pics taking bath with ice water

With the #ALSIceBucketChallenge going viral in Hollywood, Bollywood actors,international athletes and even the former US president George Bush have taken the chilling challenge. Actor Riteish Deshmukh too took up the challenge posed to him by Sania Mirza, and in turn dared friends Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Siddharth Malhotra, Pulkit Samrat and Ashish Chowdhry for it within 24 hours.The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is actually a charitable movement on social media which involves either dumping a bucket of cold ice water over one's head or making a donation worth $100 to the ALS Foundation for the study of finding a cure for the ALS disease. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the term used to describe motor neurone diseases. The ice bucket challenge started after a baseball player with ALS, Pete Frates, volunteered to have it done to him.After taking a challenge one nominates 3 or more people to take on the task within 24 hours.