 Don't like that. I'm old enough now to where there's shows called that 90 show because it was so long ago I'm gonna die soon Hey, welcome back to our stupid directions, of course. I'm Rick. You can follow the Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content Thanks to Patreon, post, subscribe, like, button. I'm like 30 years old Never once paid my taxes Like Donald Trump, exactly Anyways today, we got a video. This is a ten Bollywood actors who refused famous movie roles. Ah Refused them. I guess Yeah, and that happens all the time. Yes, you know the what you know the big one about Avatar, right? It was Brad Pitt, right? No, it was Matt Damon Matt Damon, which Matt Damon turned it down and and What about her he he he Cameron told him he was gonna give him 2% of the box off Was a 10 I think it was 10 whatever it was it was a lot of a lot of money On top of all the other movies that yeah But yeah, there's a lot of famous people who had been offered parts and they didn't take them and then someone got it and they Turned it into part of the business role. Yeah, because whether it's they didn't want it or a lot of time They couldn't do it. Yeah, they just couldn't do it They probably want to do it really bad and they just they were doing a different film at the time or What's going on or you have a really beautiful story like the original person to play Lincoln who was signed at the time was Liam Neeson and It just kept getting pushed back schedule conflicts things of different nature and the person Spielberg Originally approached for it was Daniel Day-Lewis and at the time Daniel Day-Lewis felt he was too young to play Lincoln time goes on Daniel Day-Lewis becomes available and it's Liam Neeson who says to Steven Spielberg You might want to revisit that because if you can get Daniel Day-Lewis you should yeah And he just gave the roll up because he felt that it should go to Daniel Day-Lewis. That's that's an incredible person Most roles should yeah, here we go See in any kind of industry you have to be at the right place at the right time Yeah, a lot of people account the initial success to that be the young Alia Bhatt auditioning for student of the year Also, Shaan Singh Rajput and the many years he spent on Indian television But there are some cases when actors are fortunate to get roles because of some refusal and those roles that they eventually take up Become their most iconic and memorable ones So here is tried and refused productions with top 10 Bollywood actors who turned down famous roles Kangana Ranawath After her success in movies such as fashion and once upon a time in Mumbai Kangana was offered the iconic lead role in the dirty picture Considered to be half-breaking cinema and a movie that changed the way She probably would have done really well trade on screen the movie later was offered to Vidya Baland And went on to come her really job performance in her career Kangana recalling the time she was offered the role in an interview with Rajiv Masan Told everyone why she turned down the role in many similarities about a small town girl wanting to make it big and Then falls a prey to that whole glamour and that façade I just felt I'll be trapped in this whole thing doing the same that makes sense Yeah, and I was bored of seeing myself. I like her eye makeup I'm a very attractive person and then crying and sobbing my way to my deathbed Akshay Kumar The actor who at the time was primarily doing action comedies which required little to no effort Movies including Desi boys houseful to and Joker was offered to portray the iconic role of milk I sing in Bagh milka. Oh, wow The actor turned down the role for unknown reasons and it's surprising to know that even milk I sing picture Akshay Kumar to play him in the movie for an actor went on to play the actor who went to old And definitely put forth an award winning what year came out one indeed Rittik Roshan Rittik Roshan before doing coin milga and Laksh in the early 2000s was doing a huge set of embarrassing romantic movies like yadee na tum jano na hum and Aap mujhe achhe lagne lage the actor in this period was offered for this and turned down the role Shahrukh went on to take the role of Mohan Bargav, which to date is one of his most underrated Performed you probably would have done well. He would have done well on that as well Sharma Khan did really well in the box office Salman Khan the 2007 sports film which focused on Fresh change in Indian cinema proving that scripts and stories focusing on relevant topics can also become a box office success Shahrukh Khan who played the memorable role of anymore unless your KGF fourth an amazing performance But little known trivia is that Salman Khan was actually offered the role first Which he of course turned down in a DNA interview Salman jokingly said Chuck they was offered to me But I left it because even Shahrukh Khan should be a part of a few great films That's funny that's funny Great Are the in fact told me that you know that I will make this into like the biggest hit and you don't know what you've been missing out on but I didn't think You know because I was I was fortunate that partner did well as well and People have loved the film Rittik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan The 2001 super hit Dil Chhata is in my opinion Farhan Akhtar's finest directorial work And it's extremely interesting to know the initial casting process for the movie Farhan Akhtar has been a film family kid and grew up with Rittik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan And he wanted to cast his childhood friends in his first movie The entire fiasco of setting a final cast is vividly recalled by Farhan Akhtar in a TV interview with and picture So my first choices actually Akshay Khanna Rittik or Abhishek, they were my first three choices Only person who I got to do the film was was Akshay Shahrukh Khan Shahrukh Khan in the late 90s and early 2000s was doing movies such as K3G, Dev Das and Saathya And had definitely reached the A list celebrity status during this time Shahrukh Khan was offered Rajkumar Hirani's director Wow The actor refused the iconic role Rumored to be due to his back problems and had multiple meetings with Rajkumar Hirani The movie is working with him now Donkey Rajkumar Hirani even before approaching producers in SRK had Anil Kapoor in mindful role But Sanjay Dutt took the role as Munna Which ultimately gave him an image makeover and helped change the public perception of the controversial superstar This entire ordeal is discussed in an interview with Anupama Chopra by the director From Vivek to Shahrukh, when it came to Shahrukh, I just couldn't Believe that that's a possibility. That's a possibility. I thought that either Shahrukh or I will do Finally, of course, long journey and your end credits say thank you to Shahrukh Khan We had many meetings and Yeah, a lot of fun we had but Because this time Sanjay was this time to be in the film and Saif Ali Khan Everyone remembers Saif Ali Khan for his roles in Omkara and Salam Namaste But in 1995 Saif wasn't an established star doing movies like Intiha and Meh Khiladi, Tuva Nadi Did you know that when Aditya Chopra was casting for his directorial debut in 1995 Saif Ali Khan could have been cast as a Raj in DDLJ Aditya approached Shahrukh Khan to play the role of Raj He was initially not interested because of the romantic nature of the role having had success in action movies like Bhajigarh and Dhar Aditya then asked Saif Ali Khan to play the lead role Wow That would have been different declined for unknown reasons Wow Causing Aditya to continue pursuing Shahrukh Khan Good thing he did Four meetings over several weeks Wow That's the biggest bomb show right there That is astonishing Karina Kapoor The actress can be considered to be a career maker in the film industry as she has refused several roles that have gone on to become actresses Most iconic and best performances The three-dead star after production and creative issues walked out of Kahona Pyaa Hai Later she said no to Hum Dil Decheke Sanam Which pair headed Aishwarya's career in the industry The actress also went on to say no to Kal Hona Ho because of a friendship fallout between her and Karan Johar Discussed in the first season of coffee with Karan The movie went on to become one of the biggest hits and one of Preeti Zinta's best performances Even further Karina had initially said yes to the 2013 smash hit To star opposite Ranveer Singh But after creative differences and major payment and scheduled problems walked out of the film Leading to quite the war of words It wouldn't have been It wouldn't have been Ranveer The actress could have had a plethora of smash hits if you think about it Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan makes it again on our list The Oscar nominated movie Laganh which literally got all forms of acclaim is definitely one of the best Bollywood movies in the 20s Some of these are mind boggling That would have made it very different Laganh went on to do wonders for Indian cinema on an international level Little known fact is that Ashutosh Gowaragar actually approached Shah Rukh Khan for the role first In an interview with Rediff Ashutosh talked about casting SRK See bovans definitions change as does the script. It's like a paradigm shift Every actor imparts his personality to a character the moment he does something the character undergoes a bit of change And when he does it everything around him changes So obviously Shah Rukh would have played a different absolutely discuss the number one position here are some honorable mentions Interesting Wow actually started shooting Oh, wow Sanjeev The movie that changed the trend from romantic films to action films and pioneered Amitabh's new image of the angry young man Sanjeev was an iconic movie that started a new wave in Hindi cinema This film also ended the struggling period of Amitabh and turned him into a rising star A movie that did so much for the actor was surprisingly offered to several actors before him The role of the lead inspector Vijay Khanna was first offered to Dharmendra Who agreed but his brother Ajith who was co-producing the film fell out with Prakash Mehra and the actor backed off Dilip Kumar was offered the movie after that, but he thought the role was too one-dimensional Dev Anand was next in line But the creators after discussions concluded he was a misfit for the role Raj Kumar came on later who had already reprised the role of a cop in Unche Logue Rejected the film and finally the struggling actor Amitabh Bachran After a lot of debate and creative meetings got the film and everything changed post the movie for people A lot of people say that's one of the big B ones we need to get to Yeah, I think we have it Amitabh Bachran in an interview with Rajeev Masand recalls the reason why he got the role in Zanjeer Prakash Ji had Come to me after this film had been recommended to several other Senior artists for some reason Jagat Saab had noticed an action sequence of mine in a film called Bombay to Coa Where I was chewing up and in the middle of an action sequence. I got hit in the face I rolled over stood up again and apparently I was still chewing up And he felt that after I saw that moment I decided that you would be able to do this role and that was the list guys Wow, that was good. There's some big bomb shows in there that blew my mind And obviously I'm sure if you look at Hollywood Wise as well. There's massive roles. I mean Johnny Depp was almost fired from pirates multiple times because they didn't understand what he was doing Yeah, the first few days of I was telling that to Indrani the other day when we went to Disneyland for the first time and she went into pirates I told her that Johnny has shown up and surprised people And just the choices that were made up when the daily's the producers saw the dailies for the first few days Their response was what the hell is he doing? He's going to ruin this movie. We've got to find somebody else to play captain jack Yeah, and there's probably 10,000 stories like that about 10,000 different actors It's just you know who was going to be indiana jones who it was offered to first. I think I've heard it before but I can't remember who Tom Selleck Interesting. Yeah, it was going to be Tom Selleck instead of Harrison Ford. Yeah And just like all these if you put a different actor in it A lot of times and there's some that it's like, oh, yeah, I could see that they'd probably do something a little similar But it completely changes it of course because the actors always brave themselves Shahrukh Khan is in laghan. It's going to be completely different than Amir Khan in laghan It may still be good, but it's going to be completely different and it it's not necessarily going to work because it doesn't only what they said it doesn't only Uh, it embody the character with something new because that person is in it But all the other parts that are played are going to be slightly changed because they're responding to what that Person's bringing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, really good video. Very fun to learn all this, uh, old school stuff about, uh, The history of mind-blowing ones in there. So if there's other videos we can react to please let us know what those are down below