Blast from the past: How Salman Khan and not Chandrachur Singh starred in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'

Sajid Khan and Riteish Deshmukh'smuch awaited talk show Yaaron Ki Baarat has begun and it's a riot. After Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha, it was time for Karan Johar and Farah Khan to spice up the show. And they made some really candid revelations.

We all know about how Karan went helter skelter to find a heroine who would play Tina's character in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai before Rani Mukerji accepted the offer. From Twinkle Khanna to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, everyone had rejected it. A similar musical chair happened with Salman Khan's role in the film too.

On the show, KJo reveals, "I had thought of casting Chandrachur Singh in Kuch Kuch after three other actors rejected the role. I was told nobody wants to do the role and I was already stressed. So I went to give Chandrachur a narration and after the first day, he asked me to call him and meet the next day. When I called him a day later, he told me he would do the film and asked for a complete narration. I went all the way from Malabar Hill to Seven Bungalows and then, even before I could start, he refused to do my film. I just thought he could have told me that on the phone and saved my two hours of travel time."

But it was then that he met Salman and things took a different turn. "I met Salman at a party and he came up to me and told me, 'Nobody wants to do your film. But I will do it. Come tomorrow and give me a narration.' I went and I narrated the first half and he instantly agreed. I told him, 'What about the second half? Your character is not even there in the first half.' But he didn't question me and accepted the role," KJo chuckled.