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Karti, whose father P Chidambaram was a Union Minister during the UPA era, spoke about the scene in a lighter vein during an ANI podcast and said that he was told he has a cameo there.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram addressed the speculation about a scene in Aditya Dhar’s movie Dhurandhar, where a scene involving an unnamed politician and his son, who facilitate a counterfeit currency scam, had left many wondering who it could be about.
Karti, whose father P Chidambaram was a Union Minister during the UPA era, spoke about the scene in a lighter vein during an ANI podcast and said that he was told he has a cameo there.
During an ANI podcast, Karti was asked if he had seen Dhurandhar, to which he replied, “No. I have been told that I have a cameo there. But it is in Hindi. I have also been told it is a three-hour-long movie. So maybe on my multiple flights, I will watch it. I hope the producer had called me and asked me who they should cast in my cameo. I would’ve given some suggestions.”
When asked by the podcast host who should play him and his father, he jokingly replied that Pierce Brosnan and Michal Caine should play them.
Karti also talks about the scene further and says during the podcast, “If people can mix up fact, fiction and WhatsApp forwards, what can I do? If you really think it happened, shouldn’t the government of India have some records? Does anybody even understand it? Unfortunately, thanks to WhatsApp and Mark Zuckerberg, people can’t sift through fact and fiction.”
When contacted by The Indian Express, Karti said: “I have said what I had to say, and I stand by it.”
Asad Rehman is with the national bureau of The Indian Express and covers politics and policy focusing on religious minorities in India. A journalist for over eight years, Rehman moved to this role after covering Uttar Pradesh for five years for The Indian Express. During his time in Uttar Pradesh, he covered politics, crime, health, and human rights among other issues. He did extensive ground reports and covered the protests against the new citizenship law during which many were killed in the state. During the Covid pandemic, he did extensive ground reporting on the migration of workers from the metropolitan cities to villages in Uttar Pradesh. He has also covered some landmark litigations, including the Babri Masjid-Ram temple case and the ongoing Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute. Prior to that, he worked on The Indian Express national desk for three years where he was a copy editor. Rehman studied at La Martiniere, Lucknow and then went on to do a bachelor's degree in History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He also has a Masters degree from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. ... Read More
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