

The Stranger in the Mirror is co-written by marketer-author Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and is out now. “The music of RDB was the soul of the film the songs AR created became de facto national anthems,” Mehra adds in his book. a blockbuster was written and directed by Aamir Khan Staring Soha Ali Khan. Must Read: Sara Ali Khan Accepts Samosa Pav From A Fan Netizen Writes, Ghar. Mehra also unveiled that he had almost locked Peter Gabriel, one of the founding members of the British rock band Genesis, for Rang De Basanti too, but ended up choosing AR Rahman instead. The Official Page of Rang De Basanti the most iconic Hindi Film of our. Apart from him, Rang De Basanti featured Aamir Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni. Craig’s last appearance as 007 will feature later this year with No Time To Die. Aamir khan Did you know Aamir Khan had demanded Rs 8 crore for Rang De Basanti Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra reveals why.

He wasn’t sure about the role in the beginning but decided to take it on with Casino Royale, which released in November 14, 2006. Starring: Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Atul Kulkarni. But in 2005, Craig was contacted by Eon Productions to play Hollywood’s super spy James Bond. An idealistic English filmmaker casts a group of student actors in her docudrama about Indias revolution against British rule in the 1920s. The rest, as they say, is history,” the filmmaker adds.ĭuring this time, Craig was little known in Hollywood, with 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider being his biggest commercial success. “Daniel Craig was my first choice but he requested if we could allow some time as he was also being considered to be the next James Bond. “I remember vividly that one of the people who auditioned for the part of James McKinley, the young jailer who walks Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev to be hanged, was none other than current James Bond, Daniel Craig,” Mehra discloses at one point in his book. In a newly released excerpt from Rakeyshs autobiography, The Stranger. It shows the same actors portraying freedom fighters in flashbacks. Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has revealed that how superstar Aamir Khan helped him complete the movie, Rang De Basanti. The Bollywood film, which stars Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and Soha Ali Khan as college-going students who take on the system, also features scenes revolving around their struggles with India’s battle for independence. Mehra relayed that Craig auditioned for the role of James McKinley in Rang De Basanti, reported the Gulf News. In this book, he has also revealed how Hollywood star Daniel Craig ended up auditioning for one of his most critically acclaimed films – Rang De Basanti. Ace Bollywood director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who is known for spelling magic on screen, has now spilled the beans about much of his work in his biography The Stranger in the Mirror, which has stirred quite the buzz among readers.
