Mansoor Khan only has a few films under his belt and almost all of them featured his cousin Aamir Khan, but why was the actor not in Mansoor’s 2000 romantic-action flick Josh.
Josh tells the story of a town in Goa divided by two rival gangs – the Eagles and Scorpions. Max Dias heads the Eagles, but things take a turn when his twin sister, Shirley Dias, falls in love with Rahul, the younger brother of Prakash Sharma, leaded of the Scorpion gang.
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According to PTI, Mansoor initially wanted to offer the role of Rahul to Aamir but it seems that lack of communication led to the assumption that he would play the lead role of Max. "I had written the script, and in my mind, Shah Rukh was always going to play Max... In my mind, Aamir was the younger brother (of Sharad's character), so the romantic angle was (supposed to be) between Aamir and Aishwarya. I narrated it to Aamir, but I didn't say who is playing who, and he immediately thought he is Max.”
"Next day he (Aamir) came to my dad (Nasir Hussain)'s office, he had a glove on and he was already into the character. I thought, 'Oh s***, he is thinking he is playing Max but I won't tell him no, let's see what happens next',” he continued.
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Mansoor broke the news to his cousin, but even though he was still considered for Rahul, he turned it down as he wanted to pivot away from doing romantic roles. "I came back and told Aamir, Sorry, I'm giving Max's role to Shah Rukh'. That time Aamir was shifting gears in his career. He didn't want to play romantic roles, he wanted to do slightly more tough films or bad boy or mature characters, so he flatly told me no. Aamir and I still have differences on this."
Chandrachur Singh eventually essayed the role of Rahul in Josh.
