{"id":6350,"date":"2025-07-19T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6350\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:59:11","slug":"abbas-mustan-reveal-saif-ali-khan-said-yes-to-race-without-a-thought-after-others-rejected-he-told-us-hed-do-the-film-if-we-gave-him-great-songs-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6350\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas-Mustan reveal Saif Ali Khan said yes to ‘Race’ without a thought after others rejected: ‘He told us he\u2019d do the film if we gave him great songs’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Abbas-Mustan Filmmaker duo Abbas-Mustan are known for crafting gripping thrillers in Bollywood, and they have now opened up about the challenges they faced while making the 2008 blockbuster Race. They had to approach several stars for the lead role, but many leading actors turned it down, calling it too difficult to decipher.Abbas-Mustan says five big stars in Bollywood rejected RaceDuring a conversation with Lucky Bisht on YouTube, the director duo revealed that every character in the film had grey shades, and Bollywood’s top stars struggled to grasp the story during the narration. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t make head or tail of it. One of them said it felt like being repeatedly hit on the head with a hammer. We considered these five actors very close friends,\u201d the duo shared. The actors were reluctant to commit to a film they themselves could not fully understand.<\/p>\n

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Saif Ali Khan wanted to break his romantic image with RaceThe script\u2019s non-linear, twist-filled narrative seemed to confuse many actors of that era. It was their producer who recommended Saif Ali<\/a> Khan for the lead role. Saif, who had been typecast in romantic hero roles, was eager to break away from that image. However, he too found the story hard to follow. \u201cHe didn\u2019t understand the script either, even after reading it four or five times. But he told us he\u2019d do the film if we gave him great songs. It\u2019s another matter that he later went behind our back and tried to get out of the film,\u201d they recalled.Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s review after watching \u2018Race\u2019Saif eventually became the face of the franchise. The directors said their goal has always been to keep audiences guessing and engaged, which was evident in Race\u2019s twisting storyline. They fondly recalled veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s feedback after he happened to watch the film mid-flight. \u201cI sat stunned for three hours after watching the film. You did a great job,\u201d Bachchan reportedly told them.Saif once recounted an amusing incident on set during a conversation with East India Comedy. He remembered co-star Bipasha Basu<\/a> discovering that the plot of Race bore a strong resemblance to the Hollywood film Goodbye Lover. She asked Abbas-Mustan about it, and they more or less admitted to having been \u2018inspired\u2019 by the Hollywood movie.There is now talk of a potential fourth instalment, with Saif possibly returning to reprise his iconic role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker duo Abbas-Mustan are known for crafting gripping thrillers in Bollywood, and they have now opened up about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8223,8224,64,63,8225,134,8230,8226,344,8221,8228,8227,8222,8229],"class_list":{"0":"post-6350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-abbas-mustan","9":"tag-amitabh-bachchan-feedback","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-bipasha-basu","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-five-stars-rejected-race","15":"tag-hollywood-inspired-films","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-race-movie","18":"tag-saif","19":"tag-saif-ali","20":"tag-saif-ali-khan","21":"tag-saif-did-not-understand-race"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}