Sallu is 5th Choice fr BB; Rajinikanth, Aamir Khan Rejected Bajrangi

Rockline Venkatesh, the producer of upcoming Bollywood movie "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", has revealed interesting things about the movie being offered to some of the biggest names of the Indian film industry.

Salman Khan was reportedly not the first choice for "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" and the film was initially offered to big names like Bollywood's Perfectionist Aamir Khan, Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, Kannada star Puneet Rajkumar and Telugu actor Allu Arjun. However, they all turned down the project.

Speaking to leading Kannada daily Udayavani, Rockline Venkatesh said: "The script work of "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" has been in place for the past 4-5 years. Rajinikanth sir, Allu Arjun, Puneet Rajkumar and Aamir Khan had heard the storyline. But they all turned down for various reasons

"Finally, director Kabir Khan narrated the story to Salman Khan, who happily gave green signal to the project."


"Bajrangi Bhaijaan" is the debut Bollywood production of Rockline Venkatesh. He is one of the biggest producer of Kannada films and has helmed over 30 films in his career. He has also distributed movies of all the leading languages of India.

Rockline Venkatesh has previously worked with big stars such as Puneet Rajkumar, Shivaraj Kumar, Upendra, Ravichandran, Ambareesh, late Vishnuvardhan and many more.

In other languages, he has produced the movies of Rajinikanth ("Lingaa"), Simbu ("Dum"), and Ravi Teja ("Power" in Telugu).

Meanwhile, "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" stars Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan in the lead roles. The movie has Pritam Chakraborty's music and Aseen Mishra's cinematography. The Bollywood film is set for an Eid release on 17 July.

But all those who rejected were so old for the role.

Originally posted by: fawadbae

But all those who rejected were so old for the role.

😆 allu. Arjun is not old he is in late 20s I think

I am sure Kareena and Deepika rejected Salman's role as well 😆

lol, story of the film is credited to Vijayendra Prasad, father of director SS Rajamouli. And Vijayendra Prasad made a film Rajanna starring Nagarjuna with the same story four years ago.

Bajarangi Bhaijaan is a new version of the same story. This is like how Rohit Shetty makes films taking story of old films and adding his masala to it. BB would similarly have Kabir Khan's sensitivity/treatment to it.

Originally posted by: simplyrdb

lol, story of the film is credited to Vijayendra Prasad, father of director SS Rajamouli. And Vijayendra Prasad made a film Rajanna starring Nagarjuna with the same story four years ago.

Bajarangi Bhaijaan is a new version of the same story. This is like how Rohit Shetty makes films taking story of old films and adding his masala to it. BB would similarly have Kabir Khan's sensitivity/treatment to it.

Rajanna remake ? 🤢

I thought it's original

Originally posted by: awesomegurti

😆 allu. Arjun is not old he is in late 20s I think

Allu is the son of naagurjun???
I like prithvi and Mahesh from south n the guy who was in kahani.

But why?? The story of BB looks so good😕

Originally posted by: fawadbae

Allu is the son of naagurjun???
I like prithvi and Mahesh from south n the guy who was in kahani.

Hehe nope Allu Arjun is Chiranjeevi's nephew

Did u watch Arya movie ?

He is one of best dancer 😳

Kahani me kaun tha ?

Originally posted by: blue-ice

But why?? The story of BB looks so good😕

May b they don't want to do Indo - Pak movie

Bcz South we don't get movies on that concept