'Fact, fiction and WhatsApp forwards': Karti Chidambaram on his 'cameo' in Dhurandhar

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Karti Chidambaram dismissed social media claims linking him and his father, former Union minister P Chidambaram, to a scene in the recently released film Dhurandhar, calling the allegations a blend of "fact, fiction and WhatsApp forwards".In an interview to ANI, the Sivaganga MP talked about his "cameo" in Aditya Dhar's movie said he had not yet watched the film but was told that a character resembling him appears in it. "No, I haven't seen it, but I've been told I have a cameo there. It's a three-hour-long movie, so maybe I'll watch it during my flights," he said. Taking a swipe, Chidambaram joked that the filmmakers should have consulted him to finalise the actor to play him on screen. Asked who he would want to portray him on screen, he replied, "Pierce Brosnan, maybe," and suggested Michael Caine or Sean Connery as possible choices to play his father.Karti Chidambaram was responding to a scene in the film in which an Indian minister and his son hand over currency-printing templates to a Pakistani intelligence operative after a deal in London. Several social media posts claimed the scene reflected real events during P Chidambaram's tenure as a Union minister, allegations that remain unverified.Rejecting the claims outright, Karti Chidambaram said that if such an incident had actually occurred, it would have left an official trail. "If people really think this happened, shouldn't the government of India have some records?" he asked.He criticised the growing inability to distinguish between fact and fiction in the age of viral messaging. "Thanks to WhatsApp, everything merges. With artificial intelligence, it's only going to get worse," he said.