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'Sarfarosh' Producers Wanted To Cast Shah Rukh Khan In The Film And Not Aamir Khan, Here바카라s Why

'Sarfarosh' director John Matthew Matthan recently revealed that the producers wanted to cast Shah Rukh Khan in the lead.

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바카라Sarfarosh바카라, which recently completed 25 years since release, starred Aamir Khan in the lead role, and offered him a good break from his romantic film hero image. Recently, the film director John Matthew Matthan, in an interview, shared how the producers of the film wanted Shah Rukh Khan, and not Aamir, to headline the film. 

John Matthew Matthan told Indian Express that he, however, wanted to have Aamir in the lead after he watched a scene of his film with Madhuri Dixit.

바카라I was staying at a small guest house in Delhi. On television there, I saw a small scene from one of Aamir바카라s films where his character was going to rape Madhuri Dixit바카라s character. And I felt that this guy looks honest, he is not going to rape this girl and that this was just an act. But I felt he suits the role. He was not a big star back then actually. So when I came back to Mumbai and started work on Sarfarosh with Aamir in my mind,바카라 he shared.

He said that the producers wanted Shah Rukh Khan. John Matthew Matthan recalled, 바카라I met my friend Manmohan Shetty, who owned Adlabs, and told him that I want to make a film. Around this time, Shetty had started Entertainment One to produce feature films. He had funded two films of my friends, both of which starred Shah Rukh Khan. One was Vikram Mehrotra바카라s 바카라Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa바카라, directed by Kundan Shah and the other was Praveen Nischol바카라s 바카라English Babu Desi Mem바카라. So at that time, all of them suggested I take Shah Rukh. I said, 바카라Listen, I don바카라t think Shah Rukh suits my role. I don바카라t have him in my mind,바카라 but they said that we would be able to save more money as the three of us could get a deal, but I didn바카라t want to.바카라

John later met Aamir, who  read the script and said 바카라yes바카라. The filmmaker said, 바카라Then I started studying Aamir, he had done only love stories. I felt that was good because he was unassuming. I needed a hero who transforms, then you are with him, rooting for him because you feel that this guy is too vulnerable. In a realistic movie like 바카라Sarfarosh바카라, I needed the audience to feel for the guy. With all three considerations, I was sure I wanted Aamir.바카라

바카라Sarfarosh바카라 hit the silver screens on April 30, 1999, and it featured Aamir in the role of ACP Ajay Singh Rathore alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Sonali Bendre.

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