During an exclusive conversation with Filmfare, as a part of our conversation series In The Ring with Filmfare, Amaal opened up about his father being initially cast as the lead in Sooraj Barjatya’s first pilot project leading up to the Maine Pyar Kiya shoot. Amaal shared, “My dad was lost, when he was around 34-35. I have seen him sitting in a chair – baffled, confused, thinking what to do next. He tried acting. He shot for first two schedules of Maine Pyar Kiya, as the hero. The first time Sooraj Barjatya’s father asked him to start shooting and learn the process, because the story is nice so get into the flow of things.”
Amaal shared that the filming had already begun, as photoshoots were happening at a full swing. “And there was another girl and photoshoot, etc everything was done and they shot for the film. Somewhere in the process, a more stupendous good-looking man came through, and it was Salman Khan. So, my dad recalls this and says, ‘I was climbing down the stairs of Barjatya office and I saw this young, good looking, mullet hair boy,'” he added.
Daboo, upon inquiring the security guard about the movie, came to know that he was replaced. “He asked the security guy about who he was and he said, ‘He is a new hero, leading star in the film Maine Pyar Kiya’. My dad didn’t know, he wasn’t told, he had shot and the cassette was made, but he accepted. Years later, when he was doing music with Sohail Khan, he told everything to Salman Khan at that time. I don’t know what schedule it was, maybe a pilot, that director loved him,” he said.
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