By Admin 
Aishwarya Rai and Shahrukh Khan were seen in the role of brother and sister in Mansoor Khan’s romantic musical film ‘Josh’. Although the film was somewhat successful, there was controversy over the unconventional decision of casting the leading romantic stars as brother and sister. Recently, producer Ratan Jain revealed that the role of Aishwarya Rai’s brother Max in ‘Josh’ was offered to some other superstar and not Shahrukh Khan. The interesting thing is that Aishwarya Rai was in a relationship with this superstar.
,Passion’ Aishwarya was going to be played by some other actor, not Shahrukh.Brother’
Ratan told in a latest interview given to TV 9 that initially, Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan were going to be in this film released in 2000. But ultimately, Shahrukh and Chandrachud Singh played these roles. Recalling the casting process, Ratan Jain said, “We had decided that Aamir would play Chandrachud’s role and Shahrukh would play Max. But Mansoor had told me that Aamir wanted to play Max. I said, ‘Absolutely not, only Shahrukh will do it, otherwise I will not do the film.’
It is noteworthy that Aamir and Mansoor are cousins and Aamir started his film career with Mansoor’s film ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’.
Shahrukh had refused to do Josh
After this, the makers arranged a joint narration and on that day the director, producer, Shahrukh and Aamir all reached the venue. He recalled, “Before the narration, Mansoor said that Aamir wanted to play Max. Shahrukh put on his shoes and walked away. He said, ‘So I’m not doing this film.'” However, both the stars were not available and the film was shelved. Later, this role was offered to Salman Khan, who was also interested in it.
Salman was ready to play Shahrukh’s role in Josh
Ratan said, “Salman agreed. We contacted Akshay Khanna, Saif Ali Khan and Chandrachud Singh, but the director wanted Chandrachud Singh.” However, Salman had signed Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’, so Ratan contacted again and Shahrukh agreed. He said, “I went back to Shahrukh, I told him it had been done, and Salman didn’t seem like he wanted to do it.” Shahrukh asked for some time to think, and Ratan told him, “Now I have to do it, it’s my respect’s decision.” The next day Shahrukh called and confirmed, “I am doing it.”
about passion
Directed by Mansoor Khan, the film is based on the rivalry between two street gangs, Max’s (Shahrukh Khan’s) Les Eagles and Prakash’s (Sharad Kapoor’s) Bichhoo gangs. The film received mixed response at the time of its release. But it was commercially successful at the box office.