Aamir Khan chose ‘Dhoom: 3’ over Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’?

The trailer in introduced Sushant as the private detective, but the identity of the bad man is still under wraps. Rumour has it, that Aamir Khan was the first choice to play the villain.

According to a report published in mid-day.com, “Around the same time when Aditya Chopra narrated the story of ‘Dhoom: 3’ to Aamir, Dibakar had approached him with his script. Both were challenging, negative roles for two YRF films. He was in a dilemma, but then finally decided to take up the ‘Dhoom: 3’ offer.”

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Dibakar has confirmed the report, stating, “I wanted to make ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ after ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’. I was in talks with the studio and we thought the best guy to play the baddie was Aamir. We narrated the script to him. I didn’t know that ‘Dhoom 3’ was on the slate next with Aamir as the villain. He passed on my script. Two years later, we met after the Byomkesh teaser released and he said he loved it. I guess YRF’s gain was YRF’s loss.”

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The filmmaker, however, refrained from revealing the villain’s identity.