Shoaib the next Bollywood hero?

LAHORE: A leading Bollywood producer has offered Shoaib Akhtar a lead role in his next film, Gangster, the BBC said in a report from Mumbai on Saturday.

The producer, Mahesh Bhatt, who has worked with Pakistani actors before, is meeting Akhtar in Karachi next week to persuade him to accept the role. According to him, Akhtar is amused and surprised by the offer, but is willing to read the script. Former Pakistani cricketer Mohsin Khan acted in a Bhatt film in 1987. Bhatt is confident Shoaib Akhtar, arguably the world’s fastest bowler, will accept the offer. “Once he hears the story he cannot refuse it,” Bhatt said. The proposed film is about an underworld mafia boss who is betrayed by the girl he loves.

Bhatt and his director, Anurag Bose, believe the flamboyant cricketer has a lot of raw emotion, animal magnetism and “the vulnerability of a child” – qualities they believe are needed to essay the gangster’s role. Akhtar, who was not included in the national team that is touring the West Indies at present, has appeared in a commercial that is currently being shown on Indian television. daily times monitor



I Wish They Had Offered Role To Ali Azmat, The Lead Singer of Pakistani Band Junoon, Because To Me, He Has The Look And Ability To Act. If U Have Seen Him In Some Videoclips U Woud Have Noticed It That He Can Act Well..