Shilpa Shirodkar recalled erstwhile she was rejected for Chhaiya Chhaiya.
Shilpa Shirodkar, who was recently seen connected Bigg Boss 18, was a fashionable movie histrion backmost successful the 1990s. Shilpa appeared successful films similar Hum, Gopi Kishan, Aankhein among others and successful a caller interview, she revealed that she was offered the Dil Se opus “Chhaiya Chhaiya” but the accidental was taken distant arsenic they said that she was “fat.” Shilpa recalled Farah Khan telling her that she was ineligible for the part.
Shilpa was asked by Siddharth Kannan connected his YouTube transmission if she was offered the opus and she instantly said yes. “I didn’t get it due to the fact that I was fat. They conscionable said that I americium fat,” she recalled. When asked if she felt astir missing the opportunity, she said, “I volition ever consciousness atrocious that I didn’t get ‘Chhaiya Chhaiya’ but God gave maine overmuch much and helium is inactive giving me.”
When asked what she was told astatine the clip by the choreographer of the song, Farah Khan, Shilpa said, “She conscionable said that we volition enactment immoderate different clip due to the fact that they are looking for idiosyncratic else. ‘You are a small fatter’. Something similar this… I don’t adjacent retrieve anymore. I cognize I missed it due to the fact that I was fat.”
Farah corroborated Shilpa’s mentation of events connected her YouTube transmission successful a chat with Karanveer Mehra. She shared that she really went to Shilpa for the opus but the histrion did not look similar what she had expected. “I came to Shilpa to inquire her for ‘Chhaiya Chhaiya’. But thing indispensable person happened to her due to the fact that astatine that time, she was astatine slightest 100 kgs. So I thought ‘how volition she get connected the train?’ And if she gets on, wherever volition Shah Rukh stand?”
The opus was besides offered to Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty who rejected it for assorted reasons. Malaika Arora yet performed the creation fig with Shah Rukh Khan successful Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se.