105. Destiny & Bollywood and Deewar tidbits!!

There are many instances of stars refusing movies in Hindi film industry that have gone on to become super-duper hits.  These stars had refused the movie because of the director not agreeing to their changes, or they not believing that the movie will work or some date issues.  The stars who got these rejected films went on to become superstars or established their star-status on the basis of these films.  If you want to make it big in Bollywood, you need Destiny to partner you😊!!

When I started researching this, I thought there will only be a handful of such films. But the list was big!!  Most of the stars would have cursed their luck on seeing these films do wonders after their release!! 

Following is the list of Stars who refused These films: -

Kangana Ranaut refused Dirty Picture

Akshay Kumar refused Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Hrithik Roshan refused Swades

Salman Khan refused Chak De thinking it will not work

Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan refused Dil Chahta Hai

Shahrukh Khan refused Munnabhai MBBS and Lagaan

Saif Ali Khan refused Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge

Kareena Kapoor refused Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Kal Ho Na Ho and Raam Leela!!

Armaan Kohli refused Deewana.  Deewana was the movie that catapulted Shahrukh Khan into the big league!!

Dharmendra, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raaj Kumar refused Zanjeer

As they say, one person’s loss is another’s windfall😊😊

There is one more iconic Hindi song that went on to win an Oscar for the Best Original Song.  This song was given by the music director to Subhash Ghai for his movie Yuvraaj with Salman Khan. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Subhash Ghai did not use this song in his movie.  Later the music director, after taking approval from Subhash Ghai, gave this song to a Hollywood Director and as they say, rest is history😊.  The music director – A R Rahman, the Hollywood Director – Danny Boyle and the song – Jai Ho😊😊, from Slumdog Millionaire!!

Deewar has been an iconic movie in the Hindi film industry.  Supposed to be loosely based on Haaji Mastaan, a Mumbai mafia don’s life, it gave us the epic dialogue “Mere Paas Maa Hai”!!  I came across the following interesting items about this movie: -

Rajesh Khanna was interested in doing this movie.  Knowing that Rajesh Khanna is in, Vyjayanti Mala agreed to do the mother’s role.  When Rajesh Khanna was discarded, Vyjayanti Mala also said “no” to the movie.  Apparently Shatrughan Sinha was also being considered for the role before it went to Amitabh Bachchan.

Waheeda Rehman was then finalized for the mother’s role.  During the same time, Yash Chopra, who made Deewar, was also busy shooting Kabhie Kabhie with Amitabh and Waheeda as husband and wife.  He then felt that since they are being paired with each other in Kabhie Kabhie, the public might not like to see them in a mother-son role😊.  Hence Waheeda was rejected and replaced by Nirupa Roy!!

During the Filmfare awards in 1976 (Deewar was released in 1975), Deewar was nominated in 9 award categories.  It won awards in 7 of those categories.  Guess who did not get the awards😊?  Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, namely Amitabh Bachchan and Nirupa Roy😊!! Best Actor was won that year by Sanjeev Kumar for Aandhi and the Best Supporting Actress by Nadira for Julie!!

By the way, another movie was also nominated that year in 9 categories, having released in 1975.  This movie went on to become the most iconic Hindi movie of all times and was also recognized as the Movie of the Millennium.  Surprisingly, the movie won only 1 award at the Filmfares’ that year and that was for – Best Editing😊😊!! And the name of the movie was SHOLAY😊😊!!

Cheeers!!

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