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Imtiaz Ali revealed about 'Highway': Imtiaz Ali is a well-known name in the Hindi film industry. The 53-year-old director, writer and producer has so far given many memorable and commercially successful films like 'Highway', 'Rockstar', 'Tamasha', 'Jab We Met', 'Love Aaj Kal'. Film lovers are surprised to know what Imtiaz Ali said about the casting of his films in a recent interview.
What did Imtiaz Ali say?
Imtiaz Ali said that two actors had given amazing performances in two of his films, and he thought of replacing them with other actors. Those two films were 'Highway' and 'Rockstar' and the two actors who were the director's second choice were 'Alia Bhatt' and 'Ranbir Kapoor'.
This actress was the original choice for 'Highway'
Imtiaz Ali's original choice for 'Highway' was Aishwarya Rai instead of Alia Bhatt. The role was originally written as a thirty-year-old woman, for which Imtiaz found Aishwarya Rai to be the perfect choice. Since he was looking for an actress who would look attractive even without makeup, he wanted to cast Aishwarya for the role of 'Veera Tripathi' in the film.
This is how Alia was selected
Imtiaz Ali and Alia Bhatt met during the screening of the film 'Love Shubh Te Chicken Khurana'. During the conversation, Imtiaz Ali was impressed by Alia's personality and her 'emotional quotient', Alia's views on topics like 'home' and 'society' also touched Imtiaz and he decided to cast Alia in the role of 'Veera', an emotionally mature character with depth.
And this actor was the original choice for 'Rockstar'
During an interview Imtiaz Ali said that his first choice for the role played by Ranbir Kapoor in his most popular and acclaimed film 'Rockstar' was 'John Abraham'. Ranbir Kapoor gave a wonderful performance in the role of the lovely musician and singer 'Jordan' and won a lot of awards.
If Aishwarya was in place of Alia and John was in place of Ranbir, it would have been like 'Highway' and 'Rockstar', right? On this issue, most of the users on social media expressed the opinion that Aishwarya could not have given a strong performance like Alia in 'Highway'. And it is not possible to imagine John Abraham in place of Ranbir in 'Rockstar'.