Do you think PM Imran Khan could make it in Bollywood? Dev Anand did.

Anand apparently turned up at IK's flat in London trying to convince him to act in his directorial, Awwal Number.

In a rare find, an old interview of PM Imran Khan from November 2006 is making the rounds on Twitter.

Hosted by Prannoy Lal Roy, Indian journalist and media personality, NDTV's 'India Questions' invited celebrities, sports personalities, and industry leaders to be questioned by the audience and host on various topics -and the topics can range from movies, art and sports to politics, history and culture, apart from anecdotal stories from their personal lives.

But it was this one little clip that caught everyone's attention: our very own Prime Minister could've been a Bollywood movie star in another time and in another life.

Prompted by the audience, Roy asks Khan: "Why don't you join Bollywood? Have you ever been asked?"

And with a coquettish grin, Khan replied, "You won't believe it, I was asked by one great Indian actor who we all used to look up to. Who in fact, even turned up in England to ask me to act in a film. But you know I was puzzled." Curiosity took the better of the audience and in the backdrop of 'who? who?' Khan continues, "I won't name him because it would be embarrassing."

On the insistence of Roy, Khan finally gives the...

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