Meet the actress who was originally signed for Aamir Khan’s Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar however she rejected the project before 4 days of shoot because…

This actress was signed before Pooja Bedi for Mansoor Khan’s Jo Jeet Wohi Sikandar. However she rejected the project 4 days before the shoot.

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MUMBAI:Jo Jeeta Wohi SikanDar starring Aamir Khan is the one milestone of his career. On May 22, the blockbuster movie completed 32 years, and the director of the film, Mansoor Khan, shared an interesting fact about the movie.

Jo Jeeta... had a star studded cast including Ayesha Jhulka, Deepak Tijori, Mamik Singh, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Deven Bhojani, and Pooja Bedi. Apart from Aamir, the performances of Deepak, Mamik, and Pooja were highly appreciated by the viewers and critics. However, now it's been revealed that Pooja Bedi was a last-minute replacement for another actress. Yes, Pooja wasn't the first choice for the movie.

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In an interview with an entertainment portal, the director, Mansoor revealed that actress Nagma was signed to play Devika in his movie along with Aamir Khan. He also shared that the actress “rejected” the project four days before it went on floors. Speaking about the same, Mansoor said that Nagma quit the project as she's not in the starring role, “I had told her right from the beginning that she was not the heroine. I don’t want to blame her, but the least she could have done was to inform me. You can’t hang up on me when I’m planning a forty-day outdoor schedule. Later, of course, she came to me and said it was the biggest mistake of her life."

Mansoor revealed that his film was inspired by Breaking Away (1979). He said, "Everybody thinks I wrote JJWS after seeing Peter Yates. Breaking Away. That’s not true. Right from 1981 on, I wanted to make a film about a guy who is a loser who finally gets his groove. That’s what had happened to me. I had gone to college for five years in the US and wasted my father’s money. I came back angry and defensive. The whole world was my enemy at that time (laughs). JJWS was born of my anger at that time." Aamir's Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar was also later released in Telugu as Thammudu (1999).