Late actor Rajesh Khanna played a role of a cancer patient in Anand, alongside Amitabh Bachchan. In an interview with a leading daily, actor Dharmendra revealed that he also wanted to do the film too.
The actor said, he had heard the script on a flight and wanted to do it. However, when he learned that Rajesh Khanna was cast in the film. However, he drunk dialled Hrishikesh Mukherjee to express his disappointment.
During a TV show, the actor said, “Hrishida had told me a story on a flight, Anand. While coming from Bangalore, he said to me that ‘we were going to do this and ‘we were going to do that. And later, I found out that the movie had started rolling with Rajesh Khanna in the lead role.”
“I didn’t let Hrishida sleep the whole night. I told him, ‘You were going to give me the role, you told me the story, then why did you give him the film?’ He kept telling me, ‘Dharam, go to sleep, we will talk in the morning.’ He would cut the line and I would call him back asking, ‘Why did you give him the role?’” he added. Although Hrishikesh and Dharmendra couldn’t collaborate on Anand, they worked in Chupke Chupke and Guddi later.
Meanwhile, on the work front, the last time the actor appeared onscreen in Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se, alongside his sons Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol. The actor recently signed Karan Johar’s directorial comeback Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. The actor will play Ranveer Singh’s father in the film. Dharmendra also has Apne 2 in the pipeline.
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