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Aishwarya Rai won the Miss World title in 1994, and in 1997 the actress made her debut in both Tamil and Hindi cinema. In Tamil, Aishwarya starred in Mani Ratnam’s film Iruvar, while in Bollywood she starred in the film Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya. But recently, in a conversation with Mukesh Chhabra, director Rahul Dholakia revealed that Aishwarya Rai was supposed to feature in another film with Sunil Shetty that would have marked her Bollywood debut.
In a podcast, Rahul revealed how he worked on that film’s production and it was the film’s director’s arrogance back then that came in the way of the film’s release. “I had handled the production for a film called Hum Bacche Hai Ek Daal Ke. It was Aishwarya Rai’s first film which was never released, with Suniel Shetty. Suniel had asked me to handle the production. It was directed by Shashilal Nair and Rahul Gupta was the producer. I was handling the production for that and one thing I learned was what a director shouldn’t do. The incidents from there are so stupid… They wanted the best unit and crew, so I got them the action director of the film Independence Day,” Rahul shared.
He further added, “The director’s arrogance was of another level only, but that kind of attitude doesn’t work in America. He wanted to shoot an action sequence at the Grand Canyon where boulders fall and wanted the boulders to be the size of a room. He asked for 1000 boulders of that size, and when he was asked how many takes he would take for that scene he got offended. Half of the time would go into these things, so I learned from that production that one should not be unreasonable, and think ahead.”
On the work front, Rahul who is known as a documentary filmmaker, directed Shah Rukh Khan in Raees. Another national award-winning film to his credit was Parzania. In 2025, Rahul is working on the Vijay Salaskar biopic, he has written, directed, as well as produced the film.
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