Actress Shabana Azmi and her lyricist husband Javed Akhtar have been invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for dinner with US President Barack Obama on November 7.
"Javed and I invited by Prime Minister for dinner with Obama on 7th Nov," Shabana wrote on Twitter.
" USA full of doubts whether he will get a second term. I am pretty sure he will," the actress, who is currently out of the country, wrote, referring to reports that opinion polls have predicted defeat for Obama in the mid-term Congressional elections.
She is currently touring the US with her play ‘Broken Images’.
Azmi is a former Rajya Sabha member while her husband was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament earlier this year.(PTI)