When Aishwarya Rai rejected THIS film, and said, ‘had I done it, I would have been lynched’

New Delhi: Former Miss World and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made her beautiful appearing debut in Mani Ratnam’s 1997 Tamil movie Iruvar and obtained her first break in Hindi movies with Pyaar Ho Gaya in the identical yr. The buzz round Ash’s magnificence was excessive and filmmakers would queue as much as signal her. But do you know, she rejected Karan Johar’s maiden directorial ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’?

Recalling one among her outdated interviews with Filmfare, Aishwarya Rai then stated, “I’m in a catch-22 situation, really. Though I’m a newcomer, I’m compared with all the senior actresses.” She added, “If I’d done the film, it would have been tittered that, ‘Look, Aishwarya Rai is back to doing what she did in her modelling days—leaving her hair straight, wearing minis, and pouting glamorously into the camera.’ Ultimately, the hero goes back to the more real person. I know if I’d done Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I would have been lynched.”

When writing Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Karan Johar had Twinkle Khanna in thoughts for Tina’s position. He has on a number of events confessed how solely Ash was the one one to name him again. Other actresses who had been provided the position included Urmila Matondkar and Tabu. 

The position ultimately went to Rani Mukerji after filmmaker Aditya Chopra advisable her title to KJo. 

Kuch Kuch Hota Hia went on to turn out to be an enormous success starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji. Meanwhile, Karan Johar and Aishwarya labored within the 2016 launch Ae Dil Hai Mushkil that includes Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma.