Shashi Tharoor, the Actor?

Did he ever act in a film?

Our Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shashi Tharoor, wears many hats. He is an author, a columnist, a Twitter personality and a former UN official who almost became the UN Secretary General at one point. But did he ever act in a film? There’s a brief scene in the Bollywood cult favourite Andaaz Apna Apna where a man who looks remarkably like a young Tharoor looks on as Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have a go inside a bus. Someone pointed this out on Twitter recently and Tharoor replied. Not quite amused, perhaps a little agitated even, the minister tweeted: ‘How many times must I repeat that I didn’t appear in Andaz ApnaApna or any other movie!? I was working at the UN from 1978!’ Within minutes, the conversation went viral on the social networking site. Turns out, this is not the first time Tharoor has had to field such an inquiry. Sometime last year, he sent out a plea on Twitter, ‘Will the guy in the middle of this still from Andaaz Apna Apna please identify himself so people stop claiming it’s me?’

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Lhendup G Bhutia

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