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Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol are regarded arsenic the top romanticist brace of their generation.
Filmmaker Mansoor Khan, who worked with his relative Aamir Khan connected the deed films Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, reflected connected putting unneurotic the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Josh. He said that helium was astir to perpetrate ‘sacrilege’ by casting Kajol arsenic his character’s sister successful the film, aft they’d been established arsenic their generation’s biggest romanticist brace already. He besides spoke astir yet casting Aishwarya Rai successful the film, and described her arsenic a thorough professional.
Appearing connected the India Now and How YouTube channel, helium spoke astir wherefore helium decided to brace Shah Rukh and Aishwarya arsenic siblings connected screen, arsenic opposed to a romanticist couple. He said that helium doesn’t ‘give a damn’ what radical deliberation astir his choices. He said, “My thought was, some characters are arsenic important… I ever had Shah Rukh successful my caput for Max’s role. And I was intending to formed Aamir successful Chandrachur Singh’s role. When I told Aamir the story, helium assumed that helium was playing Max. Then, erstwhile I told Shah Rukh, helium was precise excited. When I asked him, ‘Shah Rukh, are you doing the movie oregon not?’ He said he’s not doing it. ‘Because I cognize you’re taking Aamir successful it’.”
The disorder didn’t extremity there, due to the fact that Mansoor had the thought of casting Kajol successful the movie arsenic well. “The punchline is that I narrated the movie to Kajol due to the fact that I wanted her to play the sister. This is the eventual sacrilege, aft Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After she heard the communicative idea, she got up and was acceptable to permission my house. I said, ‘Kajol, are you doing the film?’ She said, ‘No, I privation to play Max’. Then she walked out.”
Mansoor decided to formed Aishwarya aft she established herself arsenic a quality queen. “I was disquieted that cipher wanted to play Max’s sister, but luckily, Aishwarya agreed to bash the film. “She was a thorough professional. She ne'er complained, ne'er said wherever the camera should be… I think, personally, Josh was her champion film.”
Josh emerged arsenic a humble container bureau hit, but successful 2003, Mansoor discontinue the movie manufacture and near to settee arsenic a husbandman successful Coonoor. He returned concisely to enactment connected Imran Khan’s debut movie Jaane Tu Yaa Jaana Na, and much recently, to enactment connected Junaid Khan’s 2nd film.
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