Mumbai, When the National Awards were announced, Arshad Warshi was inundated with congratulatory calls for winning the best supporting actor award for `Lage Raho Munnabhai`. But the bubble burst soon.

It turned out that Arshad was not the winner, but Dilip Prabhavalkar, who played Mahatma Gandhi in the film.

`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 `Lage Raho..,` Arshad told reporters.

`I was like, `Yesss. I`ve finally done it.` Throughout the day I got congratulatory SMSs. But then in the evening the bubble burst. I was told that the guy who played Gandhi had got it.`

Tough luck. But how did such a blunder happen? When the National Awards were announced wasn`t it clearly stated that it was Prabhavalkar who had won it?

`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,` said the actor, who is in Pattaya shooting for a film.

`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 to shoot for Anil Kapoor`s `Shortkut…`

Arshad plays a hammy actor in `Shortkut…` `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.`

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