Pakistan’s former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was approached for a Bollywood film which he later refused to do. The cricketer has a vast fan following in India and Bollywood, praised by actors like Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. In an interview with a foreign news agency, Akhtar said, “I was offered to play a lead role in the movie Gangster which was later on done by Emraan Hashmi.” Feeling remorse, he added, “Now I think I should have done that film.” The film Gangster was a pure love story with Kangana Ranaut, Shiny Ahuja and Emraan Hashmi as the main characters.