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Mona Parthsarathi New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The poster boy of Indian cue sport Pankaj Advani has turned down offers from Bollywood filmmakers, citing time contraints because of his "crazy" schedule. "Yes there have been offers but since I''m the only one in the country playing both snooker and billiards on the international arena, my schedule is nothing short of crazy. "To concentrate on other things, I need to take time off from the game. Even then I can''t take more than a month or two off," Advani, who had won a gold medal for India in recently concluded Guangzhou Asian Games, told PTI Bhasha in an interview. Talking about the Asian Games, Advani said that he always knew that he was going to fetch a gold medal for India. "The pressure was immense, especially as India had not won any gold in the two days prior to the billiards finals. I desperately wanted to win the first gold for India and visualised myself standing on the podium with the gold medal, seeing India''s flag going up and hearing the National Anthem being played. "When it all happened, it was deja vu," the player from Bangalore said. Pankaj, however admitted that getting the world title is tougher than winning the Asian Games medals, since the level of competition is higher. "Competition wise, a world title is much tougher to get as the competition is not restricted to Asian countries only. But since the Asian Games comes once in 4 years, so people tend to think this is it. "But having said that, we had some of the finest players in the continent who competed in the Asian Games," he said. MORE PTI MJ CM
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