Salman Khan Offers Role To Vegetarian Bodybuilder Varinder Ghuman

Bollywood hunk – Salman Khan’s love for bodybuilding is well know. Well this is again in new for his next upcoming movie. According to reports the  superstar has offered a role on his upcoming  film Gama Pehelwan to body builder Varinder  Singh  Ghuman. A Mr India in 2009 Ghuman is is said to be world’s first  vegetarian bodybuilder. With many sports biopics from Bhaag Milkha Bhaag to Mary Kom tasting success commercially Salman Khan has decided to encourage wrestling and bodybuilding through his film.

Varinder Singh Ghuman is  a very popular bodybuilder because of claims of being only world’s first vegetarian wrestler and bodybuilder. He will be making a foray into Bollywood with Kamal Sadanand’s upcoming film Roar – Tigers of the Sunderbans. When asked about how he landed the role from Salman Khan, Varinder Singh Ghuman revealed that Salman Khan spotted him while he was rehearsing for an action sequence with Allan Amin for his upcoming film  Roar – Tiger of sunderban’s  and decided to talk to him about his upcoming film.

He is also making inroads into world of movies. Kabbadi Once Again in Punjabi has hit the screens in August. Recently, he signed up with a Bollywood producer to do a Rambo kind of role and it is called Fateh. Varinder Ghuman is highly inspired by bodybuilding god – Arnold, and like him, he hopes to smoothly transition to the big screen, with a little bit of help from some acting coaches. He knows there is a tradition in Punjabi films, set off by wrestler Dara Singh (though not on his idol list), and that he is ideally suited to fill the muscle gap in Bollywood. At 6’2″ he could become a genuine Action Hero for the Indian audiences. For the moment though, JP Dutta, Ramgopal Verma, Anees Bamzee or whoever, will have to wait till he meets his dream of winning Mr. Olympia.