SCOOP: Shah Rukh Khan replaces Aamir Khan in the Rakesh Sharma bio-pic

It's confirmed. Not Aamir Khan, but Shah
Rukh Khan will play astronaut Rakesh
Sharma in the bio-pic Salute produced by
Siddharth Roy Kapur and directed by
Mahesh Mathai. And the changeover is,
according to very reliable sources, "very
smooth stress-free and amicable.
Apparently, Aamir personally met Shah Rukh
Khan to tell him that the role is worth his,
Shah Rukh's, while. Says an informed
source, "So the first question Shah Rukh
would've asked Aamir is, if it's such a great
role why are you not doing it yourself?
Before that poser, Aamir Khan explained to
Shah Rukh that he, Aamir, intended to
devote at least ten years of his life to a very
dear project, presumably the Mahabharat,
and has therefore stopped accepting any
other assignments. Aamir Khan strongly
recommended the Rakesh Sharma bio-pic
to Shah Rukh Khan as a script worth
walking that extra mile for.
After deep discussions and long meetings
with Siddharth Roy Kapur, Shah Rukh has
been signed to play Rakesh Sharma.
Sources totally discard the other names
thrown around for the part. "It was
mentioned that Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer
Singh were approached and that they
turned down the role. Not true at all. The
role went straight from Aamir to Shah
Rukh.
Interestingly Salute is not Shah Rukh's first
brush with the space and astronomy. He
had played a NASA engineer in Ashutosh
Gowariker's Swades. Little did he know he
would return to that milieu.
Salute to that.

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/scoop-shah-rukh-khan-replaces-aamir-khan-rakesh-sharma-bio-pic/.

Rakesh Sharma does not deserve a flop bio pic after achieving high feats. Aamir Kahn should do it so that it reaches the masses.

Aamir, intended to
devote at least ten years of his life to a very
dear project, presumably the Mahabharat,
and has therefore stopped accepting any
other assignments.

good luck at SRK side.

something to watch for.

Sounds like match fixing 😆😆

happy if its true... will priyanka be playing wife as she was the initial choice to play the part.

Super awesome! This is exactly what SRK needs. Last time SRK replaced Aamir it was in Darr and that film did wonders for SRK. This will too. I am excited to see SRK finally play a role worth his talent (it's been a while since Chak De! Dear Zindagi was cool too but he was in a supporting role). I was not excited about the film with Aamir as he already has done biopics (Mangal Pandey & Dangal)! But this will be SRK's first and it is exciting.

It's about time he signed a good movie. JHMS was a nightmare.

Again SRK trying to copy success of his contemporaries!

...Was Aamir really sure about letting this one go? Anyway, I have faith in him! He's prolly doing something better!