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Kajol Reveals She Wanted To Play Rani Mukerji's 'Tina' In 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai': Fought Tooth And Nail With Karan Johar

Kajol reveals that Karan Johar had told her to shut up when she demanded to play Rani Mukerji's part in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.'

'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'
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Bollywood sensation won hearts with her brilliant portrayal of the tomboyish Anjali in Karan Johar's The film, released in 1998, also starred Shah Rukh Khan and as Rahul and Tina respectively. In a new interview with Rajeev Masand's 'Netflix Actors바카라 Roundtable,' Kajol shared that she actually requested to play the role of Tina in the film but simply denied it. 

In the Roundtable, Kajol said, 바카라I fought in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' I fought with Karan Johar, I wanted to play Tina바카라s role and he was like, 바카라No. You are playing Anjali.바카라 I was like, 바카라But I want to play Tina바카라s role. You don바카라t know what I will do with Tina.바카라 Karan told me to shut up. I fought with him tooth and nail for 45 minutes but he refused categorically.바카라

Sidharth Malhotra, who was also there at the Roundtable, humorously commented that he "was quite happy with the way the film turned out."

For her acting, Kajol even won a Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

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Kajol and Rani were also guests in a recent episode of 'Koffee with Karan,' where host Karan Johar talked about memories of the film that just completed 25 years. In the episode, Karan touched upon how the two actresses don바카라t share a close bond as such. Kajol said, 바카라It was an organic distance and where work is concerned, I think it바카라s more that both of us liked where we were.바카라

Answering the same, Rani said, 바카라Because I have known her as a kid and she was Kajol didi for me and it was a bit strange. I guess when you grow apart you really don바카라t know the reason why because you don바카라t meet that often because Kajol didi used to stay in town and we were in Juhu. Me and Tanisha were much closer and we are still. But Kajol didi was always closer to the boys of the family. So, it was a bit strange.바카라

As far as their current films are concerned, Rani was last seen in 'Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway' and Kajol in web series 'The Trial.' 

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