Starring Aushim Khetrapal!

Sita Menon

Famed sports promoter Aushim Khetrapal has a new facet to his personality: Acting.

Khetrapal's Delhi-based company, Radiant Sports Management, we believe, has done business with people and sports organisations in the UK. The Observer, UK, earlier quoted a Scotland Yard officer, adding Khetrapal and Jagdish Sodha, a Hindi film industry personality, met Chris Lewis and Fleming together. Sodha and Khetrapal have been interviewed in Bombay and Delhi.

Now, the man who, it has been alleged, is involved in the worldwide cricket match fixing scandal, has signed on for not one, but three, Hindi films.

The acting bug sees Khetrapal essaying character roles in Aap Jaisa Koi Nahin, being directed and produced by Salim Ali Khan, and starring Puru Raaj Kumar, Sharbani Mukherji and Raj Babbar. The film is in its seventh reel of filming.

Khatron Ke Khiladi is another of Khetrapal's film. It is in its 13th reel of filming, and is being directed by Imran Khalid. It stars Mithun Chakraborty, Puru Raaj Kumar, Raj Babbar and Ronit Roy, and is being produced by ABC Pictures.

Khetrapal will also appear in the devotional film, Sai Baba, starring Sudhir Dalvi, Divya Dutta, Shammi Kapoor, Rohini Hattangadi, Bali Brahmbhatt and Sayaji Shinde among others.

The film is being directed by Deepak Balraj, produced by Denim Enterprise, and is in its 12th reel of filming.

CBI reports also state that there is a distinct possibility that the match fixing and the presence of the underworld in Bollywood could prove to be interlinked.

With inputs by Film Information