Aamir Khan has earlier worked with Rajkumar Hirani in some of the finest projects to date. However, the actor was almost getting roped in for Hirani’s another, Sanju, but he turned it down. The actor was offered Sunil Dutt’s role in the film, however, as mentioned in Bollywood Life, the actor when he read the script found Sanjay Dutt’s role unbelievable.
Saying that the actor said to Hirani that he can’t do any other role but Sanjay Dutt in the film. But he couldn’t do it, for Ranbir Kapoor was already roped in for the role.
On that note, the actor also shared a memory that he had with Sunil Dutt, he said, “During the riots of 1993, the Hindi film industry took a delegation to the then Chief Minister to stop the riots. Around 40 people went to the CM’s office. After that, we decided that since no immediate action had been taken, we will sit under the statue of Mahatma Gandhi near Mantralaya. All 40 of us came and sat under the statue and we decided until the violence stops, we won’t move from there.
For the night, we decided to continue it on rotational. So on the first time, Dutt Saab, Yash Chopra, Johnny Walker, I and one of the film producers, we all sat down together at night under the Gandhi statue. We spent the whole night there… Of course, the next day people came and by the evening the CM took some action. But for me, it was a memorable night where I was listening to the stories of their journey from Dutt Saab and Johnny Walker. I remember that night very clearly. He was a very strong, dignified and gentle person.”
