Salman Khan Was to Play Aishwarya’s Family in Josh, Aamir Khan Considered for Chandrachur Singh’s part.
As write for us entertainment say’s, that, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s career has been marked by iconic places and blockbuster hits like Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, and Khakee, amongst others. Still, there’s an intriguing twist to her trip that involved two of the biggest Khans in Bollywood. Before being called the face of love with Shah Rukh Khan( in Mohabbatein, Devdas and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil), Aishwarya came perilously close to playing Salman Khan’s family. The two actors, who were formerly rumoured to partake a stormy but high- profile relationship, could have made it to the screen together, but as stock in Josh.
In the 2000 Mansoor Khan film, she starred contrary Chandrachur Singh, with Shah Rukh Khan playing her family. still, as actress herself revealed, the original plan was to cast Salman and Aamir Khan in supereminent places.” I suppose the cast was meant to be Aamir and Salman at one point and ultimately it came Shah Rukh and I suppose Aamir was to play Chandrachur’s part. So at different points the cast kept changing but Sherly remained Sherly.” So I had said yes to Mansoor( Khan),” Aishwarya told Bollywood Hungama in an old interview.
Cut to a multitudinous times latterly, and the Salman Khan- Aishwarya Rai reunion on screen sounded possible again with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ambitious design, Bajirao Mastani. The director had conceptualized a reunion for a literal drama, Salman Khan as the nominal Bajirao, and Aishwarya as Mastani. still, fate had other plans.
Aishwarya explained the situation on Koffee With Karan,” He did see us working as the cast that he saw was ideal for the film. But circumstantially, I could n’t work with the kind of platoon he was looking at.” Although the actress was looking to take the part of Mastani, she could n’t picture herself on set negative Salman as Bajirao.
Unfortunately, the rumour shop took another direction where reports suggested Aishwarya walked out from the design. In the same interview, she cleared the air,” Well, I was game to play Mastani but not with the Bajirao he’d in mind. So, this was apparent presumably nationally. The media made it out to be that Aishwarya walks out of Bajirao Mastani.”.” We had n’t communicated also because I was in sanitarium with my leg laid up.” For the uninitiated, Aishwarya met with an accident during the shoot of the 2004 film Khakee leaving her injured and with a broken leg.
What Could Have Been ? write for us entertainment:
The casting shake-ups in Josh and Bajirao Mastani give a sense of the wildness that is Bollywood. If fate had played out differently, Aishwarya Rai would have shared the screen with two of Bollywood’s biggest Khans in roles that no doubt would have changed the trajectory of her career. Instead, Shah Rukh Khan stepped into the role of Max in Josh, and years later Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone became the face of Bhansali’s epic love story in Bajirao Mastani.
For Aishwarya, these near-misses reflect the often complicated world of film casting, where roles are fluid and dynamics on- and off-screen can influence a final choice. Her career, nonetheless, filled with iconic performances, is one shining example of versatility and strength in times when things just don’t work out according to plan.
It also shows the way in which Bollywood works, as it is affected by personal relationships and professional decisions combined with timing, and all these have a lot of impact on films finally released onto the theatre screens.
Conclusion:
The casting twists of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan in Josh, and the possible reunion of Aishwarya and Salman in Bajirao Mastani, are rather interesting for the “what could have been” Bollywood trivia. KreativanSays that despite all these changing dynamics and unforeseen circumstances which caused these combinations to fall through, Aishwarya’s career was rising with iconic roles opposite Shah Rukh Khan, amongst others. She is candid to share that; though timing has not been too kind on her part and some choices for roles were perhaps not ideal, yet it is assured craftsmanship and professional choices that were instrumental in her still being one of the most celebrated stars in Indian cinema.