Do you know 7 Iconic Movie Roles That Almost Went To Another Actor? Here are those successful movies that were made before the makers expected another actor to play the lead, but during the casting process, they unfortunately didn’t get the opportunity to assemble the dreamed stars.
7 Iconic Movie Roles That Almost Went To Another Actor; including Drishyam
#1.Bajirao Mastani
Sanjay Leela Bhansali planned Bajirao Mastani around the pairing of Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. But later, the popular and Bollywood’s favorite couple, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, were cast. This film became a blockbuster, Interestingly, Sanjay had been trying to make this film since 2003, and it was released in 2015 with a new cast.
#2.Dil Dhadakne Do
Zoya Akhtar had always envisioned a real-life couple, Despite the film being completely fictional, she tries to make it pleasing to the eye and bring out familiarity. He thought of casting Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor as siblings since they have some familiar shapes. But then Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh were cast. Regardless, both did a fantastic job with very methodical acting that made it look very realistic.
#3.Baazigar
Playing an anti-hero or a villain could have been career-ending for SRK. Since this was the time when SRK was introduced to Bollywood. Regardless of the role, SRK took the risk and went for it. Many other stars were approached for the same role, but none of them were ready for it. SRK was cast, and well, the rest is history.
#4.Ghajini
Suriya played the lead role in Ghajini‘s original Tamil film. But it was planned that Ajith Kumar would play the lead role. Later, due to conflict and fallout between Ajith and the film’s producers, Ajith was dropped, and Suriya was roped in for the lead role. It was such a hit that Bollywood bought the remake rights to Aamir Khan and Asin‘s film.
#5.Shershaah
When Shershaah was released, the film created a huge buzz in the media and became very popular. While one of them, Aayush Sharma, was dropped as Siddharth Malhotra was already selected for the film, although Salman Khan personally requested the director cast his son-in-law, Aayush Sharma, he did not do so, as it would have been unprofessional for him to drop an actor who had already been selected for the role, had started the work for which they were assigned. Moreover, before directing the film, Siddharth Batra went to talk to the family. And after discussions, the whole family gave their approval to cast Siddharth in the film; thus, it was practically impossible for the director to make a drastic change due to Salman’s request.
#6.Dil Chahta Hai
However, Farhan Akhtar had a different casting lineup in mind for this film. These were mainly Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, and Hrithik Roshan. Aamir Khan‘s role was to be played by Akshaye Khanna, and Hrithik was to play Akshaye‘s role. But when Hrithik turned down the role, Farhan approached Abhishek Bachchan. But finally, it went to Aamir Khan, Neither the makers nor the actors thought of such a cast. And of course, the movie turned out exceptionally well.
#7.Drishyam
Although some of us were introduced to this film through Bollywood and Ajay Devgn’s brilliant acting, it was originally a Malayalam movie’s remake. Although Mammootty was the initial choice for the role, he turned down the offer and recommended Mohanlal instead. Although it became commercially successful and got positive reviews from the critics,
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