Filmmaker Mansoor Khan, who labored together with his cousin Aamir Khan on the hit movies Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, mirrored on placing collectively the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Josh. He mentioned that he was about to commit ‘sacrilege’ by casting Kajol as his character’s sister within the movie, after they’d been established as their technology’s largest romantic pair already. He additionally spoke about finally casting Aishwarya Rai within the movie, and described her as an intensive skilled.
Showing on the India Now and How YouTube channel, he spoke about why he determined to pair Shah Rukh and Aishwarya as siblings on display, versus a romantic couple. He mentioned that he doesn’t ‘give a rattling’ what individuals take into consideration his decisions. He mentioned, “My thought was, each characters are equally necessary… I all the time had Shah Rukh in my thoughts for Max’s position. And I used to be aspiring to solid Aamir in Chandrachur Singh’s position. After I informed Aamir the story, he assumed that he was enjoying Max. Then, once I informed Shah Rukh, he was very excited. After I requested him, ‘Shah Rukh, are you doing the movie or not?’ He mentioned he’s not doing it. ‘As a result of I do know you’re taking Aamir in it’.”
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The confusion didn’t finish there, as a result of Mansoor had the concept of casting Kajol within the movie as nicely. “The punchline is that I narrated the movie to Kajol as a result of I needed her to play the sister. That is the last word sacrilege, after Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After she heard the story concept, she obtained up and was prepared to depart my home. I mentioned, ‘Kajol, are you doing the movie?’ She mentioned, ‘No, I need to play Max’. Then she walked out.”
Mansoor determined to solid Aishwarya after she established herself as a magnificence queen. “I used to be frightened that no person needed to play Max’s sister, however fortunately, Aishwarya agreed to do the movie. “She was an intensive skilled. She by no means complained, by no means mentioned the place the digicam must be… I feel, personally, Josh was her finest movie.”
Josh emerged as a modest field workplace hit, however in 2003, Mansoor stop the movie trade and left to settle as a farmer in Coonoor. He returned briefly to work on Imran Khan’s debut movie Jaane Tu Yaa Jaana Na, and extra not too long ago, to work on Junaid Khan’s second movie.
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