Indian athletics legend Milkha Singh on Tuesday hit back at Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan by say ing that the movie industry hasn’t done any favour by making a film on him.Salim has tried to defend his son’s appointment as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for the Rio Olympic Games. The move to appoint Salman was questioned by several members of the Indian sports fraternity, including Milkha and 2012 London Olympics wrestling bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt. “Let him (Salim) have his views. I don’t have anything to say regarding this. I have already expressed my views. All the members of the Olympic contingent are our ambassadors,“ the multiple Asian champion was quoted as saying by Times Now. “The IOA should have thought of what’s the need of the ambassador. I’m saying that the teams which are going be it shooting, wrestling, boxing or athletics, they all are our ambassadors. Out of 120 crore people in India, they have been our ambassadors then what is the need of any other ambassador?
Milkha, who finished fourth in the 400 metres sprint at the 1960 Olympics, continued: “It’s okay they have made a film on me. I don’t think that the movie industry has done me a favour by making a film on my life.“