Top 10 Bollywood Actors who Turned down Famous Roles

There are many superstars in film industry. Bollywood is a big industry. In film industry, there are many reason that one actor refused some movie and another grabbed. Here, some movie earn good and some movie has lose. But there were some moments when some unlucky actors refused a movie which later became superhit. We are providing a list of top 10 bollywood actors who turned down famous roles.

Best 10 Bollywood Actors Who Turned Down Famous Roles

1. Kajol Turned down the role of Piya in 3 Idiots

Kajol is at the first position in the list of best 10 bollywood actors who turned down famous roles. Raju Hirani approached Kajol to play a role of Pia in 3 Idiots movie but she denied the role for some reason and after that Raju Hirani approached Kareena Kapoor and she became part of the film. Because of some reason Kajol could not do this role of the film.

2. Aishwarya Rai turned down the role of lead actress in Raja Hindustani

At the second position of the best 10 bollywood actors who turned down famous roles. Karishma Kapoor was lucky to get the career changing role in Raja Hindustani because she replaced by Aishwarya Rai as Aarti in Raja Hindustani. 

3. Kareena Kapoor – Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam

Kareena Kapoor is 3rd position at the 10 bollywood actors who turned down famous roles. We can say that she was lucky to accept the role of Piya in 3 Idiots but otherside we will say that she was unlucky when she turned down the role of Nandini in HDDS. Aishwarya played this role and rest a history.

4. Akshay Kumar – Bhag Milkha Bhag

For the role of Milkha Singh, Akshay Kumar was the first choise the Rakesh Mehra. But because of some problems he could not do this role and this was a very big mistake for Akshay Kumar. Because this movie was super hit on box office.

5. Dev Anand – Zanjeere

In Zanjeere movie, De Anand was approached for the role of Vijay. But he denied the role. After Amitabh Bachchan was casted for this role and we can say that by this movie his career became.

6. Raj Kapoor in Anand

For Anand movie, Raj Kapoor have a offer but he denied the role for some reason. After Rajesh Khanna was approached this role and became a superstar at that time. Rajesh Khanna was a superstar of the film Industry.

7. Shahrukh Khan – Munna bhai MBBS

Raju Hirani and Vidhu Vinod wanted that Shahrukh khan played a role of Munna Bhai in Munna Bhai MBBS but he decided to decline this offer for some problems. Later Sanjay Dutt approached the role of Munna Bhai in this movie.

8. Satrughan Sinha – Sholay

Satrughan Sinha is at 8th position in the list of top 10 bollywood actors who turned down famous roles. He approached for role of Jay but because some problems he declined this role saying that his role is not good enough and rest is history. Later Amitabh Bachchan casted for this role in Sholay movie and we can say that it is another success stroy of Amitabh Bachchan.

9. Hrithik Roshan – Dil Chahta Hai

For Dil Chahta Hai movie,  Farhan Akhtar's first choice Hrithik Roshan for the role of Aaksh but he denied this role and later Aamir did the role and made it his year with Lagaan being super hit.

10 Saif Ali Khan – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaynge

Saif Ali Khan was the first choice for the role of Raj in  bollywood movie DDLJ and the bigger surprise is that he denied it. But SRK played this role in DDLJ.