An old picture of actor Fatima Sana Shaikh where she has an uncanny resemblance with cricketer Shubman Gill from her breakthrough role as wrestler Geeta Phogat from Dangal (2016) is doing the rounds on the internet. “Gill is a good-looking guy”, says Shaikh, who is happy to join in on the fun and doesn’t mind the comparison.

The 31-year-old confesses that when her friends saw the posts online, they tagged her and made a lot of fun of her. “Yes, I saw the post. There is a resemblance and I can’t even deny it. All my friends tagged me on it. I was not spared. It was so funny,” she jokes, adding, “Mereko bura nahi laga. There was nothing wrong in it,” she says.

The actor, who was recently seen alongside actor Vicky Kaushal in Sam Bahadur, says she has been compared to many famous people in her life. “People have come up to me and said that I look like (politician) Priyanka Gandhi and (actor) Katrina Kaif. I think, everybody has around 10 doppelgangers in the whole world, so, I’m not surprised I look like different people. Sometimes I joke, ‘Main toh bachi hi nahin’,” she tells us.

For Shaikh, this picture going viral seven years after the film came out, is special as it proves the audience still remembers her performance and her role from the movie. “Imagine, people have such vivid memories about my character from Dangal. It is so strong that they were able to instantly point out the similarity, I was happy about it,” she ends.