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Actor Aamir Khan will be celebrating his 60th birthday on 14th March. The actor was recently seen at an event in the city where he was in conversation with Javed Akhtar, where they spoke about cinema and everything around it. Being stalwarts who come with diverse experience, Javed Akhtar recalled how he had predicted many years ago that Aamir would be a superstar. Aamir also shared an interesting anecdote about Rajkumar Hirani. He said that the Lage Raho Munna Bhai script was originally written for him.
He said, “Originally, Raju had written a script where he wanted me to play that part. The day he came to narrate the script to me, he said that the script he was going to tell me about had changed and was called Munna Bhai 2 (Lage Raho Munna Bhai) and that he had nothing to narrate to me.”
Aamir Khan further shared, “So I asked him what the original story was about, and he said it was about a young guy who is a freedom fighter in India before independence. He has been fighting during the Gandhian era, and during a lathi charge, he gets hit on the head and slips into a coma. He wakes up 40-45 years later. By then, India has gotten independence, but he still feels stuck in that era, which is why he talks to Gandhi and all. He doesn’t know that Gandhi has been killed; that was Raju’s original concept.”
Lage Raho Munna Bhai went on to star Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, and Vidya Balan in the lead roles. The film went on to become a hit. As for Aamir, the actor later worked with Rajkumar Hirani in PK. On the work front, Aamir has Sitaare Zameen Par coming up next. He will also be producing Lahore 1947 along with Rajkumar Santoshi.
At the same event, Aamir also spoke about bowing out from Yash Chopra’s Darr, that finally starred Shah Rukh Khan. “That was for other reasons, not for creative reasons. And even now I feel woh sahi hi hua because jo sur Yash ji pakad rahe the, Shah Rukh was suiting better. In retrospect, agar woh main karta toh kuch aur hi ho jata because I was looking at it differently. I don’t really regret that because woh film achi bani aur kamyab bhi hui…… Main uss sur mein nahi kelne wala tha. (Even now, I feel that what happened was for the best because I think what Yash ji was aiming for, Shah Rukh suited it better. In retrospect, if I had done it, things would have turned out differently because I was looking at it from a different perspective. I don’t really regret it because I think the film turned out well and was successful)”.
Aamir accepted K Vijayendra Prasad, who wrote Bajrangi Bhaijaan script, first approached him. Prasad, father of filmmaker SS Rajamouli, felt he would suit the character. “I heard the script and told the writer that it would suit Salman Khan better. That was my reaction. I liked the script of the film, but asked them to take it to Salman. The writer, however, didn’t go to Salman, he went to Kabir Khan. And then Kabir went to Salman. But that was my reaction. Even for Munna Bhai, Raju wanted me to play a part. The day he came to me with the script, he said that things have changed and the film is more of a sequel to the first part”.
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