{"id":126813,"date":"2025-11-07T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126813\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T12:48:09","slug":"salman-khan-was-offered-role-as-aishwarya-rais-brother-in-josh-shah-rukh-khan-walked-out-over-aamir-khans-casting-ratan-jain-on-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126813\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Khan was offered role as Aishwarya Rai\u2019s brother in \u2018Josh\u2019; Shah Rukh Khan walked out over Aamir Khan\u2019s casting: Ratan Jain on casting |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SalmanShah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan started acting in the early 1990s but never starred together. Producer Ratan Jain revealed Shah Rukh left the film ‘Josh’ after a dispute over a role meant for Aamir. Salman Khan was later offered the part. Aishwarya Rai featured alongside Shah Rukh in the film. Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> and Aamir Khan<\/a> both started acting around the same time in the early 1990s. Even though they became big stars, they never acted in the same movie together. Producer Ratan Jain<\/a> recently said that the movie \u2018Josh\u2019 was meant to have both of them. But in the end, Shah Rukh and Chandrachur Singh played the roles that were first meant for SRK and Aamir. The film also had Aishwarya Rai, and Salman Khan was once offered a role as her brother Max.Producer\u2019s preference and family connectionsIn a conversation with TV9 Bharatvarsh, Ratan revealed that he was keen on casting Shah Rukh as Max, but Mansoor preferred Aamir for the role. Jain explained, \u201cWe had decided that Aamir would do the role that was done by Chandrachur and Shah Rukh would do Max. Mansoor had shared with me that Aamir wants to play Max. I said, \u2018Absolutely not, only Shah Rukh will do that, or I won\u2019t do the film.\u201d It\u2019s notable that Aamir and Mansoor are cousins, and Aamir made his film debut in Mansoor\u2019s \u2018Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Joint narration and Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s exitRatan shared that Shah Rukh, having heard rumors that Aamir Khan was interested in the same role, arranged a joint narration. On the day when the director, producer, Shah Rukh, and Aamir all arrived at the venue, Mansoor disclosed Aamir\u2019s wish just before the narration started. \u201cBefore the narration, Mansoor said Aamir wants to play Max. Shah Rukh put on his shoes and left. He said, \u2018I am not doing the film then\u2019,\u201d he recalled.Role offerings and film\u2019s delayAfter Shah Rukh stepped away from the project, Mansoor was keen on casting Aamir, but Ratan insisted that the character should be played by Shah Rukh. With both stars unavailable, the film was put on hold. Later, the role was offered to Salman Khan, who was interested in it. \u201cSalman agreed. We approached Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Chandrachur Singh but the director wanted Chandrachur,\u201d Ratan said.Salman Khan\u2019s other film commitment and Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s decisionRatan remembered that during this period, Salman was approached for Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s \u2018Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam\u2019. While Salman had agreed to do \u2018Josh\u2019, Ratan believed he was more interested in Bhansali\u2019s project. \u201cI went back to Shah Rukh. I told him this has happened and Salman doesn\u2019t sound like he wants to do it,\u201d he said. Shah Rukh asked for some time to think, and Ratan told him, \u201cAb karni padegi, meri izzat ka swal hai (Now you will have to do it, it\u2019s about my honour now).\u201d The next day, Shah Rukh called and confirmed, \u201cI am doing it,\u201d he added.Aishwarya Rai\u2019s casting and onscreen pairingsWhen questioned about Aishwarya\u2019s selection, Ratan mentioned that she was already signed on for the film during the finalization of the Max character. After playing siblings opposite Shah Rukh in \u2018Josh\u2019, the two later portrayed lovers in \u2018Mohabbatein\u2019. Aishwarya also appeared in \u2018Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam\u2019, where her rumored romance with Salman began but ended a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan started acting in the early 1990s but never starred together. Producer Ratan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4194,22404,45148,321,93,61,60,74641,10164,1266],"class_list":["post-126813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aamir-khan","tag-aishwarya-rai","tag-akshaye-khanna","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ratan-jain","tag-saif-ali-khan","tag-shah-rukh-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}