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Aishwarya Rai turned down the offer to work with Aamir Khan. Wikimedia
The Khans of Bollywood Industry, Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan are the three superstars of Hindi cinema with whom every actress dreams of working with. On the contrary, various Bollywood females denied sharing screen space with them. We bring to your notice the actresses who turned down the roles opposite these Khans.
Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai turned down the offer to work with Aamir Khan. Wikimedia.
Aishwarya was supposed to play the role of rich and sensitive Aarti Saigal in the movie,’Raja Hindustani’. She had turned down the offer because of less interest to make a career in films as she was busy with her studies and modeling assignments at that point of time. Starring the Perfectionist Aamir Khan as the leading character of a taxi driver and tourist guide, ‘Raja Hindustani’ became the Bollywood blockbuster film of 1996 in India.
It came into light that Juhi Chawla also dejected the offer due to personal issues with Aamir Khan. It was also reported later that Pooja Bhatt was almost ready to work on the film, but on Aamir Khan’s request to director Dharmesh Darshan the decision was changed.
Juhi Chawla
Juhi Chawla. Wikimedia
Juhi Chawla and many other leading Bollywood actresses of the 90s also did not accept the role of Nisha opposite Shah Rukh Khan in the blockbuster film ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’ (1997). The desired role was offered to Manisha Koirala and then to Juhi Chawla, Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar and Kajol before Karisma Kapoor gave her approval.
Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle Khanna denied to bag the role of Tina in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Wikimedia.
Karan Johar wanted his best friend, Twinkle Khanna to work on his dream Bollywood directorial debut for the role of Tina. But Twinkle turned down the offer for unknown reasons.
In fact, after getting unfavorable response from his best friend, Karan reached these actresses: Raveena Tandon, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Tabu, Urmila Matondkar and Karisma Kapoor for the same role, but to no avail. Finally, Rani Mukherjee was bagged in for the role of Tina changing her fortune forever.
Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty denied the role opposite the khans
Shilpa Shetty made her acting debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in the booming crime thriller ‘Baazigar’ in 1993. She was the first choice of the director duo Abbas-Mustan to play the leading female in the movie ‘Baadshah’ (1999). She kept delaying the film and lastly dejected to work on it.
Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor turned down the offer to work with Shahrukh Khan. Wikimedia.
Karan Johar desired to produce ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ with Kareena Kapoor under his production banner Dharma Productions. He had directed her in ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ (2001). When Karan approached Kareena for the film, she quoted an incremented fee as her remuneration equivalent to Shahrukh Khan’s. Karan refused to fulfill her demand and instead signed Preity Zinta. Both Karan and Kareena had a major fight after this incident.
Priyanka Chopra
priyanka chopra made it to the hollywood even after rejecting to work with khans. Pixabay.
Psychological thriller ‘Ghajini’ (2008) is a film which no Bollywoood film enthusiast can forget. The film showcased the 6 packs as history and introduced Indian youth to 8 packs abs. The makers wanted to bag in Priyanka Chopra in the Hindi remake, but she refused to sign the film as she was not very convinced of her role in it. Aamir was impressed by Asin’s performance in the Tamil version and on his request the actress was chose to work on the the Hindi version also.
Kajol
Kajol rejected tork with the Khans. Wikimedia.
Believe it or not, it’s true that this Bollywood film ‘3 Idiots’ saw rejection by the very charming and talented Kajol. The actress was the initial choice of filmmakers to play the protaganist female in the film. But unfortunately, she turned down the offer. The role then went to Kareena Kapoor who herself approached Rajkumar Hirani for the character of Pia. She undoubtedly managed to show out her performance amidst the presence of actors like Aamir Khan, R. Madhvan and Sharman Joshi.
-Prepared By Bhavana Rathi. Twitter @tweet_bhavana
Shabana Azmi hosted grand Diwali party. Wikimedia commons
Actresses like Vidya Balan, Tisca Chopra, Sonali Bendre, Richa Chaddha were also present in the party.
Check out how these Bollywood celebrities were dressed for the Diwali party.
B-town Celebs like Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Hritikh Roshan and Aamir Khan were present In the Diwali party
This year many famous celebrities like Ramesh Turani, Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Shilpa Shetty and Shabana Azmi has thrown lavish Diwali Parties. Beautiful faces dressed in Indian attires at these Bollywood Diwali parties made the festival of lights much brighter than ever before.
Talking about recent and Grand Diwali party, hosted by Shabana Azmi and Jawed Akhtar was one of the huge Diwali celebrations of Bollywood. Popular celebrity couples like Amitabh Bachchan- Jaya Bachchan, Aamir Khan – Kiran Rao, Vidya Balan -Kunal Kapoor, Sridevi-Boney Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor- Neetu Singh and Shilpa Shetty- Raj Kundra attended the bash. Also, famous celebs like Hrithik Roshan, Karan Johar, Manish Malhotra, Tisca Chopra, Sonali Bendre, Konkana Sen Sharma, Richa Chaddha and much more were present at the Diwali party.
The list would have been longer but the same day Sanjay Dutt also hosted Diwali party due to which stars got divided into two parties. Look at some of the awesome pictures of B-Town Celebs attending Shabana Azmi’s Diwali Bash –
India has demanded the secretariat disclose information about misconduct by UN staff. Flickr
United Nations, Oct 7: In an attempt to break the wall of silence around the crimes and UN staff misconduct and those on its assignments, India has demanded the secretariat disclose information about such cases and the immunity invoked against prosecutions.
Yedla Umasankar, the legal advisor in India’s UN Mission, touched a raw nerve here by criticising the UN on Friday for not vigorously following up allegations of serious wrongdoing by its employees who enjoy the equivalent of diplomatic immunity, a prized possession of its staff.
“It appears that the UN system itself may be reluctant to waive immunity even for serious misconduct carried out by its personnel while serving on its missions, so that such cases can be prosecuted by the host governments,” he told the General Assembly’s committee on legal affairs.
“Even a few of such instances or allegations of crimes committed by UN personnel is highly damaging for the image and credibility of the United Nations system and its work around the world,” he added.
His statement also touched on the practice of some countries that protect their wrongdoers at the UN.
Umasankar demanded that secretariat disclose how many cases of serious misconduct by UN personnel were registered and the number of cases where the UN refused to waive immunity to allow their prosecution.
He also wanted to know in how many cases the host country wanted the immunity waived so it can prosecute those accused; the number of times the UN asked the host country or the country that sent them to prosecute them; how many times it consulted countries before waiver of the immunity of their personnel and how many of them refused UN’s request to waive their citizens’ immunity.
The information he wanted does not cover the diplomats sent by member countries to represent them at UN bodies and enjoy diplomatic immunity with the nations hosting the UN facilities.
After scores of serious allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers, especially exploitation of children, the UN vowed to uphold a policy of zero tolerance and began publishing data on such cases in peacekeeping operations including how they were dealt with.
Starting with the year 2015, it began identifying the nationalities of those accused.
However, it has not made public a roster detailing all the allegations and proven cases of serious misconduct across the entire UN.
While the focus has been on sexual exploitation and abuse reported on peacekeeping operations, Umasankar said that “at a broader level, the issue of accountability has remained elusive in some cases”.
He attributed it to “the complexities of legal aspects relating to sovereignty and jurisdiction”, the immunity or privileges that may be necessary for UN operations, and the capability or willingness of countries to investigate and prosecute the accused.
He noted that the UN itself cannot make criminal prosecutions.
While Indian laws has provisions for dealing with crimes committed abroad by its citizens, not all countries have them, he said.
Those countries should be encouraged and helped to implement such measures, he added. (IANS)
