/> Yesterday after the National awards were announced Arshad Warsi now shooting for Gol Maal Returns in Pattaya was flooded with congratulatory calls for winning the best supporting actor award for Lage Raho Munnabhai.

Turned out, Arshad was not the winner. The winner was Dilip Prabhavalkar who played Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai.

Says Arshad, "First my family and close friends saw my name being flashed on television non-stop. They rang me up to tell me I had won the National award for Munnabhai. I was like, 'Yesss. I've finally done it.'

Throughout the day I got congratulatory sms. But then in the evening the bubble burst. I was told that the guy who played Gandhi had got it. Tough luck."

The question is, how did such a blunder happen? When the National awards were announced why wasn't it clearly stated that it was Prabhavalkar who had won it?

Says Arshad, "People naturally presumed it was me. But I guess the jury knows best. All I can say is, I was deeply disappointed after having been taken right up to the doorstep of a National award.

But now I can see the funnier side of it. I now know how it feels to win a National award, so I'm fully prepared for it when it really happens, " says Arshad who after his small stint in Pattaya will head back to Mumbai later this week to shoot for Anil Kapoor's Short Cut ...

Arshad plays a hammy actor in Short Cut. "Maybe they'll give me the National award for that, " quips Arshad.

In August, he leaves for London to shoot for his first home production. "For the first time I'll be playing a character the way I'm fully convinced I should do."