Salman Khan was offered role as Aishwarya Rai’s brother in ‘Josh’; Shah Rukh Khan walked out over Aamir Khan’s casting: Ratan Jain on casting
Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan both started acting around the same time in the early 1990s. Even though they became big stars, they never acted in the same movie together. Producer Ratan Jain recently said that the movie ‘Josh’ was meant to have both of them. But in the end, Shah Rukh and Chandrachur Singh played the roles that were first meant for SRK and Aamir. The film also had Aishwarya Rai, and Salman Khan was once offered a role as her brother Max.
Producer’s preference and family connectionsIn a conversation with TV9 Bharatvarsh, Ratan revealed that he was keen on casting Shah Rukh as Max, but Mansoor preferred Aamir for the role. Jain explained, “We had decided that Aamir would do the role that was done by Chandrachur and Shah Rukh would do Max. Mansoor had shared with me that Aamir wants to play Max. I said, ‘Absolutely not, only Shah Rukh will do that, or I won’t do the film.” It’s notable that Aamir and Mansoor are cousins, and Aamir made his film debut in Mansoor’s ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’.