Isha Koppikar calls turning down Dil Chahta Hai her ‘biggest regret’, says she ‘should have done some jugaad’

She added, “I thought how can I betray them after signing their film? I feel that I should have done some jugaad. I could have done both or chosen Dil Chahta Hai over it because unfortunately, Pyar Ishq Mohabbat did not become such a massive hit and Dil Chahta Hai was like a cult film.”

For the unversed, Isha was approached for the role of Pooja, the character paired opposite Saif Ali Khan in Dil Chahta Hai. The role ultimately went to Sonali Kulkarni.

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Though Isha missed the chance to work with Farhan in Dil Chahta Hai, she later played a pivotal role in his film Don, starring Shah Rukh Khan. In an old interaction with Galatta India, Isha shared that she bagged the role in Don thanks to Farhan’s father Javed Akhtar and stepmother Shabana Azmi, who liked her performance in D. “Shabana ji and Javed saab called me after my performance in D, where I played Chunky Panday’s wife, where I am held by the gangsters and he is murdered in front of me and I am crying and howling to save my husband. And I get a call from them and my trophy for that was Don,” she said.