Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, at an interview recently, revealed quite an interesting truth—that he was once offered a role in a Salman Khan film.
Speaking on the online show Social Media Star, Tharoor made a random mention about film offers while he was clearing the air about his often talked about ''appearance'' in a scene in cult classic Andaz Apna Apna. Tharoor said it was not him in that scene, and added that by the time the movie released, he was already working several years in the United Nations. “The irony is that after I came into Indian politics, I started getting movie offers. Why didn’t these come when I was young and handsome?”
Tharoor said: “One amusing offer (came to me) for a bit part in a Salman Khan starrer from a rather famous director. I can always cherish these moments. It was to play the role of an Indian foreign minister in a sequence and the advice I was given by a good friend was, ‘If you want to be the foreign minister, don’t play the foreign minister.’ I thought that made sense and I backed off.”
