Saahil Chadha recalls being replaced from Darr after Yash Chopra took over the film, says Aditya Chopra offered him Shah Rukh Khan’s part

As soon as Saahil got the offer, he rushed to the video store and watched Cape Fear. “Late at night, I called Adi and I said that I’m doing the film. He sent Naresh the next day and he narrated the film, and I immediately said yes,” he recalled. Since Lamhe was on the verge of release, they decided that the paperwork will only be done after the film releases. But, Lamhe flopped at the box office and that affected Saahil’s fate as well.

Saahil recalled that he was travelling at the time and once he came back, he met Yash Chopra for Darr. “I asked, ‘Uncle, meri picture? He said ‘Kaunsi picture?’. I said ‘Darr’. Unhone kaha ‘main khud dara hua hun, main kya daar banaunga? (I asked ‘Uncle, my film? He said ‘Which film?’. I said ‘Darr’. He said ‘I am scared, how will I make Darr?’).”

When Saahil met Aditya, he learnt that Yash Chopra had taken over the film and he was now going to direct it. They had already made plans to cast Shah Rukh Khan in the film as he was becoming a star. “Deewana had already released by then, and they were hearing good things about Baazigar as well,” he recalled.

Darr turned out to be a game changer for Shah Rukh Khan and along with Baazigar, the film made him the next big star of Bollywood.