Sara Ali Khan’s starrer Ae Watan Mere Watan was loved by the audience. The film was released on the OTT platform and Emraan Hashmi was also seen part. Recently, Bakhtiyaar Irani made a shocking claim that he was replaced at the last minute in the film. Yes, you are reading right. The news came as a shock to the actor, who described the experience as a “big jhatka”.
In conversation with Inside The Mind With Rushabh, he said, The director calls me, it’s (a Karan Johar production). I didn’t know, I thought I was meeting Kanan (Iyer) the director. I met him, he told me that I am very well built, but in the 1940s, people were puny. So I lost 8 kgs in one and a half months and went back to him. He said, ‘Very good, agle (next) week contract signing’. Everything was done. I told my wife and family and my close circle of friends about it, I told about 30 people as I was signing it the next day. I wondered what could go wrong, so I told them. But then it didn’t happen. This is the character that Sara Ali Khan came to (for help).” Bakhtiyaar mentioned he was very excited for the film.
The former Bigg Boss contestant further mentioned, “The Parsi guy…” He blames his luck for missing out on the role, but rues that he didn’t get any feedback on the reason behind replacing him. Bigger name, (not) a good actor… and I have gone through auditions, proper auditions. Kanan, the director, he loved me. Everything was proper. But I decided not to talk about it… But it was a very big jhatka (shock) for me because (it would have been a big opportunity) for me.”
The film also stars Sachin Khedekar, Abhay Verma, Sparsh Shrivastav, Alexx O’ Nell and Anand Tiwari in pivotal roles. The patriotic thriller-drama is a Dharmatic Entertainment production, produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra. Directed by Kannan Iyer, the film has been written by Kannan and Darab Farooqui.
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