‘Shah Rukh Khan wasn’t supposed to die in Dil Se, script was changed’: Manisha Koirala says she preferred original version of Mani Ratnam film

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Manisha further added, “As an artist, for me, that was a great opportunity to explore the negative side of the character. I had always played lovable and good roles, but this was different. It was not typical and I liked it.” She also went on to share how the original script that was agreed upon had a different ending and it was changed last minute. “In the original script that we had agreed on, the cause was larger than love for both the characters. In the original version, he lets her die, and that was agreeable to all of us, but they changed it last minute,” she shared.

Manisha Koirala further explained, “In the final version, everybody was trying to achieve that his love was so intense for her, and at the same time he couldn’t allow her to go for it, nor allow to live without her. He stops her but dies in that, they were trying to show it as his big sacrifice, the original script didn’t have that. Back then only I had liked the original because there was no way they would have become one. Sometimes unrequited love is more interesting than a completed loved story.”

 

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On the work front, Manisha was last seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi. Her role as Mallikajaan was quite loved by the audience.