Juhi Chawla recalls Aamir Khan was original choice for”Darr” not Shah Rukh Khan

Juhi Chawla recalls Aamir Khan was original choice for”Darr” not Shah Rukh Khan

In Yash Chopra’s directorial ‘Darr’ Shah Rukh Khan essays role as an obsessive lover and it is reminisced as one of his best characters. He made his ‘k..k..k..k..Kiran’ quite iconic and years after. the film released, it’s still a part of the popular culture. It featured Juhi Chawla and Sunny Deol alongside Shah Rukh.

But not many may know that know SRK was not the original choice for the movie? The film was first offered to Aamir Khan and that made Juhi Chawla quite happy. It’s also one of Juhi’s most loved roles and hence, recalling this film on her birthday on Tuesday.

The actress was quoted saying when she heard that Yash ji was going to cast Aamir Khan for the role that he was going too she was so happy, she has worked with Aamir in their initial films and with him she is much comfortable. Then later she heard that Aamir is not doing it, then she thought, it went to Ajay Devgn and some other young heroes but they wouldn’t do it. Eventually, it was Shah Rukh Khan. For Juhi it was special with Shah Rukh Khan.

Juhi had made her debut with Aamir in ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’.

She further added how eventually she even got comfortable with SRK as by the time ‘Darr’ started, they had already finished ‘Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman’.

For those not versed Shah Rukh and Sunny eventually had a big feud while working on the film amidst the shoot of the climax action sequence. They did not speak to each other for over 16 years. All seems well now between the two as fans were happy seeing them both together at the success bash of ‘Gadar 2’.

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