New Delhi. Today we are telling you about a romantic film released in the year 2004 which was rejected by Jodhaa Akbar star Hrithik Roshan. He also liked the film, but despite this he refused the film. Later, Saif Ali Khan received the National Award for Best Actor for the same film. Did you recognize the name of the film? If not, let us tell you. The name of this film is Hum Tum.
Did Aamir also reject Hum Tum?
The film was directed by Kunal Kohli. Recently Kunal Kohli himself told that this film was rejected by Hrithik Roshan. It is said about Hum Tum that before saying yes to Saif Ali Khan’s role, many stars including Aamir Khan had rejected the film. Now the director of the film told in a special conversation with Screen that Aamir Khan had not even heard the script of the film.
Aamir Khan was going through divorce earlier
Hum Tum director Kunal Kohli said, “No, actually, Aamir had not even heard the script of the film. At that time he was going through his first divorce with Reena Dutta. So he was not in his right frame of mind. Hrithik Roshan liked the script very much. But he was not ready for this role. Because he said – I don’t know how my character will look or be accepted in ‘Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon’ (2003), which That didn’t even happen.
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Why did Hrithik reject the film?
Kunal further said that his own film Mujhse Dosti Karoge (2002) did not work with him (Hrithik). But he told Kunal that this film is real gold. Hrithik had said that he doesn’t have the confidence to do Hum Tum yet. So he refused for the film.
Saif Ali Khan had won the National Award
When Saif received the National Award for this film, Shahrukh Khan was nominated with him for Swades and Amitabh Bachchan was nominated for Black. When Saif won the National Award, people said that Amitabh and Shahrukh deserve this award more than Saif. People said that Saif got this award because his mother Sharmila Tagore was the chairperson of CBFC at that time. However, in this old interview Saif had said – My mother has not brought this for me. Because if my mother could have given me such things, she would have given me much more.