When JP Dutta deliberate to make Umrao Jaan primarily based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada, it was an enormous problem to get a lead equal to Rekha from the Muzaffar Ali traditional. Although immediately, we are able to think about Aishwarya a worthy alternative to suit into Rekha’s sneakers, again within the day, Aishwarya was not even Dutta’s first alternative for the function of the protagonist.
So if we inform you that Priyanka Chopra, not Aishwarya, was imagined to romance Abhishek Bachchan in Dutta’s 2006 musical drama, will it shock you?
Priyanka was a budding artist at the moment, who was attempting to ascertain her toes in Bollywood. Actually, he had additionally began getting ready to get into the colour of the garland. So did issues change? “Her filled dates diary,” stated JP Dutta to PTI in 2005.
Dutta revealed that regardless of Priyanka’s efforts to work out the calendar, the difficulty of dates couldn’t be resolved. “I had reached a stage the place I needed to decide. I wished to work with Priyanka. I noticed him as ‘Umrao Jaan’. But we have been at a lifeless finish. “
Director JP Dutta and actor Aishwarya Rai got here collectively for the primary time in Umrao Jaan. (Photo: Express Archives)
And when Priyanka lastly fell, Aishwarya’s arrival on the ship was by likelihood. It was round this time that Aishwarya was getting ready for a movie on Gayatri Devi’s life and Dutta met her in London. According to the director, she was eager to work in Umrao Jaan. “Which actress would not be there? She had no concept about my interactions with Priyanka on the time. When she confirmed curiosity, I noticed Aish as one other preferrred alternative for the function of Umrao Jaan. She has grace. I can see him as Umrao as Aish can be a talented dancer.
The movie Gayatri Devi was imagined to be a Walt Disney manufacturing, however Aishwarya Rai He couldn’t be part of it and Dutta used the dates he had for the previous, for his personal nice work.
Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan did Umrao Jaan a yr earlier than their marriage. (Photo: Express Archives)
Priyanka was ready for her dream function, however she refused to be upset. The world icon informed PTI on the identical time, “I had very good plans about playing the role. JP saab wanted 90 days of my dates so much that I could not give him. If it doesn’t work, I guess it wasn’t meant to be. When so much is happening, I can’t worry about what didn’t happen.”
Umrao Jaan turned out to be one of many grandest JP Dutta outings and introduced Aishwarya Rai’s grace, magnificence and dancing abilities like no different movie. The movie, which launched in 2006, additionally starred Shabana Azmi, Suniel Shetty, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
