{"id":69457,"date":"2024-03-10T02:09:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/from-hrithik-roshan-to-nana-patekar-farah-khan-reveals-her-first-choices-for-main-hoon-na\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T02:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T02:09:04","slug":"from-hrithik-roshan-to-nana-patekar-farah-khan-reveals-her-first-choices-for-main-hoon-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/from-hrithik-roshan-to-nana-patekar-farah-khan-reveals-her-first-choices-for-main-hoon-na\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hrithik Roshan to Nana Patekar: Farah Khan reveals her first choices for ‘Main Hoon Na’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan to Ayesha Takia and Nana Patekar, Bollywood filmmaker Farah Khan opened up on the casting challenges, before finalising the star-studded cast for her directorial debut \u2018Main Hoon Na\u2019<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a new tell-all with an Indian media outlet, Farah Khan spoke about the unwavering support from her close friend and a constant in her films, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan. She shared, \u201cI always face casting challenge in my films except for Shahrukh Khan. He always agrees to do my films.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further recalling the same about her debut film as a director, Khan spilt, \u201cDuring Main Hoon Na<\/em>, we didn\u2019t have casting directors and me and my assistants used to cast people. Except for Shahrukh and Sushmita Sen, whom I had told long ago that I will cast her in my film, we had no confirmed actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The season choreographer revealed that she considered Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and also Sohail Khan for the second lead role of Lucky [Lakshman Prasad Sharma], before Zayed Khan finally came on board, at the very last minute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first choice for Zayed\u2019s role was Hrithik Roshan. This was before Hrithik\u2019s debut film Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai<\/em> had released. After the film released, Hrithik became Hrithik and he left. I also approached Abhishek Bachchan for Zayed\u2019s role but that didn\u2019t work out. Then I approached Sohail Khan and that too didn\u2019t work out,\u201d she recalled. \u201cJust one or two months before the shooting of Main Hoon Na<\/em>, I went to see Zayed\u2019s film in theatre. He had a good smile and I thought he was charming. He came on board at the last minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khan continued, \u201cI initially wanted to cast Ayesha Takia for Amrita\u2019s role, but then Imtiaz Ali took her for Socha Na Tha<\/em>. She told me that she is going for five days, but she didn\u2019t come back for five weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I started looking for another female lead. Amrita Rao came on board just 15 days before the film\u2019s shooting,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker also divulged that she approached veterans like Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar and Kamal Haasan, all of whom turned down the negative role of the terrorist, and it eventually happened with Suniel Shetty.<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s debut directorial \u2018Main Hoon Na\u2019<\/em> received positive reviews from critics and was also a huge Box Office success upon its release in 2004. The masala entertainer fetched several prestigious awards of the season as well.<\/p>\n

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