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.