Who can forget Bollywood’s Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan’s film Rang De Basanti. One of Aamir’s best films, Aamir’s performance in this film and people always admire the look. Now the producer of the film Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has revealed a secret. He told that this film was first offered to Farhan Akhtar. So what happened that Farhan refused for the film.
Rakesh said, “Farhan was really happy at that time as he had finished directing the film ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ and was working on ‘Lakshya’. I told him that I want him to act in my film. At that time he could not believe it because he was busy directing.
I offered him the role of Karan in ‘Rang De Basanti’. Which was based on the character of the sole writer in the entire film. Farhan was happy to hear this, I could see the sparkle in his eyes. He thought why does this man want to see me act in the film.’
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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra further said that Farhan liked the script but at that time he did not see himself acting. Farhan garnered a lot of accolades for his directorial films ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ and ‘Lakshya’. He made his acting debut in 2008 with Rock On. After this he finally worked with Rakesh in Olympian Milkha Singh’s biopic Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
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