Tillotama Shome shared this picture. (Image courtesy: tillotamashome)
Highlights
- Tillotama shared the screenshot of the proposal and wrote "no thanks"
- Tillotama has featured in films like Hindi Medium and Qissa
- She was recently seen in web-series Mentalhood
Actress Tillotama Shome found a spot on the list of trends after she shared a screenshot of a wedding proposal she got from an Instagram user. The Instagram user sent Ms Shome a direct message on the social networking site and described himself as a "virgin and vegetarian guy" who is willing to undergo "lie-detector test, narco-test and brain mapping test." Ms Shome shared the screenshot and wrote, "Ye kaisa shakahari mazak hai bhai? No thanks. Bye bye... Tata bata alvida." In the comments thread of Ms Shome's post, writer actress Eisha Chopra said, "I got the same one." Actress Shruti Seth teased her, "How can you resist?" while others added ROFL emoticons.
Here's Tillotama Shome's now viral post:
Tillotama Shome made her big screen debut with Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding and she followed it up with movies such as Shanghai, Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost, Children Of War, Budhia Singh - Born to Run, Hindi Medium and Kadvi Hawa. She was last seen in Angrezi Medium. She was praised in international film circuits for her performance Qissa, in which she played the role of a girl raised as a boy.
Before working in films, Tillotama Shome was a theatre artiste and a part of Arvind Gaur's Asmita theatre group. She moved to New York in 2004 for a two-year course in educational theatre.
Tillotama Shome also featured in Ekta Kapoor's web-series Mentalhood, co-starring Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shukla, Sandhya Mridul, Sanjay Suri and Dino Morea.