

The sportsperson’s personal life has been equally significant for the tabloids in the West. I bring the masalas, you do the cooking because the cooking here is good. I like the black dal and the chicken gravy.” Mention the craze for Pakistani spice mixes in India and he adds in jest, “Don’t worry, I will bring for you next time. “The people and the food is so amazing here. It’s not just films, there’s more he likes about India.
AMIR KHAN BOXER WEBSITE MOVIE
it’s a good movie man,” says the Olympic silver medallist, who is presenting the Super Boxing League in India. I like watching movies of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan -the Khans have taken over Bollywood. Bollywood is so big now, especially in the UK. I picked it up from Bollywood films that I watch on flights. Amir Khan says it would be amazing if Aamir Khan makes a movie about him.īorn to a Pakistani family in England, Amir is quite clued into Bollywood.

It’ll be amazing if Aamir Khan makes a movie about Amir Khan, the boxer,” says the 30-year-old who began competitive boxing at the age of 11, and has won 31 out of 35 fights till date. But in Bollywood, Aamir Khan would be ideal. “In Hollywood, someone who is young and really athletic should play my part.

Boxer Amir Khan was in the Capital over the weekend.(Raajesh Kashyap/HT Photo)Īmir thinks that it would, in fact, be interesting if Aamir stars in his biopic. I think that my fans would be sending messages to his account too,” he says, laughing about the “great confusion” due to the similarity in their names. And on Twitter, Facebook, people send me messages thinking this is Aamir Khan ‘the actor’s’ account. In UK, even on the phone people mistake me for him. At the end of the day, the talk he’s been giving, he needs to back them words up.The additional ‘A’ in actor Aamir Khan’s name doesn’t help British boxer Amir Khan, who gets mistaken for the Bollywood superstar “all the time.” The former unified light-welterweight world champion, who was in Delhi over the weekend, told us, “So many people confuse me with Aamir Khan. Khan added: “I’ve never ran from him, never needed to, what I’ve achieved in sport speaks for itself, but we’re here now. It’s been frustrating for me, I’ve wanted this for many years.” He’s always ran away and it’s come to this part of our career when there’s nowhere else for him to run. He’s never given me respect, acknowledged me. February is when he hits the deck for the final time. It’s the biggest fight in British boxing right now outside of Anthony Joshua versus Tyson Fury and we’re delighted to be able to deliver this legacy-defining clash live and exclusively on Sky Sports Box Office.”īrook said: “I’m sick of people coming up to me asking me when I’m going to fight him. “This is a fight every boxing fan has wanted to see for years. “Their rivalry has simmered for years, they are still by far the best welterweights in the country and the eyes of the world will be on them when they square off in February to finally settle the question about which of them is the better man. “Khan and Brook are icons of the sport in Britain and this will be an iconic encounter,” said Ben Shalom from promoter, BOXXER.
