Aishwarya-Salman were considered for Padmavati, but...

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It's no secret that Bajirao Mastani was a passion project for Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who had been flirting with the film for years before he finally made it with Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra. Apparently Padmavati, which he's currently filming with Ranveer, Deepika and Shahid Kapoor, has also been a project he was trying to get off the ground for some years.

All dreams of making it with Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai went out of the window after the actors fell out, but insiders say that Bhansali did reach out to them again a few years ago, to check if they might consider making the movie. The big twistand the only way Aishwarya might have agreed to do the film with Salmanwas going to be that Salman would play the Alauddin Khilji character who wreaks havoc and goes to war to capture Rani Padmavati but has no scenes whatsoever with her in the movie.

Apparently Salman nixed the idea. A source close to the actor reveals that Salman was happy to make the film, but it had to be a love story. He was keen to recapture the magic of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, and wasn't going to settle for a movie where he didn't get to work with her.