Aishwarya Rai is a big actress. He has given big hits in his career like Hum Dil De Chuke Saman, Devdas. Her beauty and killer expressions used to fascinate the audience and along with this, her precise artistry added life to her work. But it is said that for every star that is shining, one has also seen a lot of darkness. Aishwarya Rai is also one of them. There was a film that allegedly tarnished Aishwarya Rai’s career, which was the biggest flop of her career till date. Her husband Abhishek Bachchan has also been associated with this film. Let us know this whole matter in detail-
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Abhishek Bachchan was in Aishwarya Rai’s biggest flop film?
The era of remakes in Bollywood has been going on not from today but for years. Apart from other languages, remakes of Hindi films have also been made in Bollywood. The name of ‘Devdas’ comes first among such films. In its first version, Dilip Kumar was in the lead role, while in the remake, it was Shahrukh Khan. Both the films received immense love from the audience and critics. Apart from this, there is another film which was brilliantly remade, but compared to the first version, the second film did not perform well at all. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was in the lead role in this film. Despite great expectations, the film was not successful. Apart from this, her husband Abhishek Bachchan was also seen romancing with Aishwarya Rai, while another Bollywood actor tried to ruin their love story.
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Umrao Jaan Ada, written in 1899 by poet and writer Mirza Hadi Ruswa, is considered one of the finest novels of Urdu literature. The story revolves around a girl who is sold into a brothel in her childhood and becomes one of the most famous prostitutes of Lucknow. The novel has inspired several film and television adaptations in both India and Pakistan. There were two most talked about adaptations in India, one with Rekha and the other with Aishwarya Rai as the lead heroine. In 2006, JP Dutta made ‘Umrao Jaan’ with Aishwarya Rai in the lead role. It also featured powerful actors like Abhishek Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Divya Dutta and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in important roles. The film was offered to Priyanka before Aishwarya. The audience did not like the acting of the former Miss World and the direction of JP Dutta and the film flopped at the box office.
Made at a cost of Rs 15 crore, ‘Umrao Jaan’ became Aishwarya Rai’s biggest flop. According to Box Office India portal, it earned only Rs 7.42 crore in India. Before the release of ‘Umrao Jaan’, JP Dutta had revealed that not Aishwarya but Priyanka Chopra was his first choice for this film. Speaking to PTI in 2005, the director had said, ‘I had reached a point where I had to take a decision. I wanted to work with Priyanka. I saw him as Umrao Jaan. But we were at a dead end.
JP Dutta did not work for 12 years
JP Dutta made India’s best war drama film ‘Border’ in the year 1997. He was so disappointed with the failure of ‘Umrao Jaan’ that he postponed his next film ‘Paltan’ for 12 years. After staying away from films for 12 years, he made a comeback with this film in the year 2018. This war drama starring actors like Jackie Shroff, Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Harshvardhan Rane, Sonal Chauhan and Esha Gupta was also rejected by the audience. JP Dutta is now working on ‘Border 2’. For this film he has cast stars like Sunny Deol, Diljit Dosanjh and Varun Dhawan.