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Role Call ' Business of Enmity ' The Triangular Truce
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Tagged Under | Shah Rukh Khan | Salman Khan | Kajol
It is only in Bollywood that movie stars display such lack of professional grace that they talk about films they turned down, insisting they weren't happy with their roles, thereby dissing the actors who replaced them in those films. In the past week alone, at least two actresses are guilty of having committed that crime. In an interview to a morning daily, Kajol revealed that she had turned down the mega-successful 3 Idiots because she didn't think there was much to the role. The actress has said she wanted a parallel role to leading man Aamir Khan's, or at least one as important as that of the other two male leads (played by R Madhavan and Sharman Joshi), but saw no merit in playing the heroine's part that Kareena Kapoor eventually performed.
In the second instance, just days after it was learnt that Vidya Balan had signed on to star in filmmaker Rajiv Menon's biopic of Carnatic music legend MS Subbulakshmi, news was floated that Aishwarya Rai had been approached for the part before her. Unnamed sources close to Aishwarya revealed that the actress wasn't excited about the role and hence turned it down, making way for Vidya to step in.
However, Menon, who directed Aishwarya in Kandukondain Kandukondain, has reportedly said Vidya was his only choice for this film. The director famously shares a warm friendship with Aishwarya, and was in talks to direct her in an Abhimaan remake with her husband Abhishek Bachchan, but has since moved on to the Subbulakshmi project after that film fell through.
Kareena and Katrina fanboy is missing out the names of these two me-firsters too.
Kareena's latest score is Ram Leela while Katty's is Bombay Velvet.
Business of Enmity
Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan may be sworn enemies, but both are fully aware that neither can attract much attention unless he's knocking down the other. So if Shah Rukh cheerfully allowed his co-host Saif Ali Khan to make a joke about his rivalry with Salman at the recent Filmfare Awards ceremony, then the Dabangg star brazenly imitated SRK in front of the delighted mediapersons on the red carpet at the Star Guild Awards last weekend.
When controversy-hungry reporters begged Salman to react to the Filmfare Awards gag that Shah Rukh and Saif had pulled, Salman played along merrily, proceeding to imitate both actors and their style of dialogue delivery. "Kuch karna padega isske bare mein!" (Something will have to be done about this!), he said in jest on being told of the joke they had cracked. He then aped Saif's nasal voice and SRK's famous stutter before quickly proceeding to the venue to host the awards show.
Their enemity gives them so much free publicity that who would want to be friends?
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