Cricketer-turned-PM Imran Khan was offered a Bollywood movie by this legendary Indian actor

An old video of Prime Minister Imran Khan has been circulating on Twitter since yesterday. The video shows the PM in an interview on an Indian show in which he was asked about having ever been offered to act in a Bollywood movie, to which Khan revealed that an Indian actor requested him, and even chased him, to act in a movie.

Dev Anand once asked Imran Khan to act in one of his films. Here #ImranKhan talks about his acting skills 🙂 pic.twitter.com/aqKwU7qg1Z

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Initially he didn’t want to name the actor, but gave away soon later. Dev Anand was the one who approached Khan, who, at that point, was no interested in acting.

“You won’t believe it but I was once I asked by a brilliant Indian actor who we all look up to, to act in one of his upcoming film. In fact, he even turned up in England to request me, but I was puzzled.”

He was then asked details about who asked him and why he rejected. To which Khan said, “I won’t name him because it’ll be embarrassing.” But on being pushed for an answer he said, “No it’ll be a credit to him.”

“Okay, it was Dev Anand, who in my time was very well known.” Khan revealed, adding that “For me it’s strange, to think that just because I’m a cricketer, doesn’t mean I can be an actor as well. It doesn’t make sense to me. Ismail Merchant also once asked me to act in a film, but again I was puzzled because I can’t act. I couldn’t even act in a school play, let alone a film.”

Interestingly, Anand has mentioned about this incident in his autobiography ‘Romancing with life.’ Anand wrote that the former Pakistan captain was speechless when he first told him about the film. “You have bowled me over, Mr Dev Anand. But I don’t think I am a good actor,” said Khan.

Anand is considered as one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian Cinema. He passed away in 2011 at the age of 88.