Dharmesh Darshan's Wish to Cast Aishwarya Rai in 'Raja Hindustani'
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00:00 I had Aishwarya Rai.
00:01 Wow, but she hadn't come into films at that time.
00:04 But I had seen an ad with her of Aamir.
00:07 I loved her.
00:09 She was living at Khar.
00:10 There was a friend of mine who was living in the building opposite, saamne wali khedki
00:14 used to tell me there's this very beautiful girl.
00:17 And one day she was sitting in the rickshaw and going and she just looked and I said yeh
00:19 toh nazar heroine ki hai.
00:22 And she was my choice.
00:24 She was also game.
00:25 But then she had to go for Miss World.
00:28 Oh, she was not doing Miss World by then.
00:32 What do I do?
00:33 And then, can you imagine live Bharti?
00:37 The day I went to meet Juhi Chawla, that day Karishma was dubbing in Anand theatre, Dev
00:41 Anandji's theatre in Palil near our house.
00:45 And she was leaving and Juhi was coming in and I was coming in and Juhi and Karishma
00:49 kept looking.
00:50 And that day I went to Juhi and I felt that she's not getting this right.
00:54 And the next day I finalised Karishma Kapoor for her.