Ranveer Singh rejected the film, Shahid gets the fruit of patience, silver after waiting for 12 years

It has been more than 2 decades of Shahid Kapoor to step into the film world. He made his Bollywood debut with ‘Ishq Vishk’ in 2003. Before the films, Shahid also worked as a background dancer and danced behind heroines like Aishwarya-Karishma. Shahid, who has entered the film world by becoming a chocolate hero, has now made his mark as Angry Youngman. However, he had to struggle a lot to reach this point. He has worked in films like ‘Vivah’ to ‘Jab We Met’ in his career, but there was a time in his career when his films were not able to grow beyond flops and average. The ‘Jab We Met’ was a super-duper hit released in 2007, but after this, after waiting for about 12 years, he got a film that gave a new pace to his career and brought him to the list of Bollywood’s top stars again.

This film gave new flight to Shahid Kapoor’s career

We are talking about Shahid Kapoor’s film, which created a panic at the box office as soon as it was released and there were many discussions of his Angry Youngman Avatar everywhere. Yes, we are talking about ‘Kabir Singh’ released in 2019, which was earlier offered to Ranveer Singh. ‘Kabir Singh’ was a romantic drama with which Sandeep Reddy Wanga with ‘Animal’ made his Hindi cinema debut. He was the director of the film and was produced under T-Series Films under Bhushan Kumar and Krishna Kumar and Cine 1 Studios.

Kabir Singh was a remake of Arjun Reddy

The film was a remake of Sandeep Reddy Wanga’s Telugu film ‘Arjun Reddy’, which was released in 2017. Shahid Kapoor was in the lead role in Kabir Singh and Kiara Advani was seen with him. Nikita Dutta was in a supporting role in the film. Released in 2019, the film proved to be a blockbuster. The praise that this film received, as much as the criticism was also victims. The film grossed a lot and Shahid Kapoor made a tremendous comeback with it. Overnight Shahid became a superstar from Star. However, not Shahid but Ranveer Singh was the first choice for the film.

Sandeep Reddy Wanga wanted to take Ranveer Singh in Kabir Singh

Sandeep Reddy Wanga himself made this disclosure during an interview. He had told that earlier the bride had taken the offer of this film to Ranveer, but he rejected the film, not describing himself as a suitable for this role. Sandeep said that he was constantly getting calls from Mumbai to remake Arjun Reddy and he wanted to do this film with Ranveer Singh, but he refused to do the film.

Why did Ranveer reject the film?

According to Sandeep, the character was quite dark and that is why Ranveer refused to do the film. After Ranveer’s neither, he contacted Shahid Kapoor and as if he became silver. The film was released and made a tremendous collection. The budget of the film was 60 crores and it earned 379.02 crores at the box office, with 331.24 crores in India and 47.78 crore foreign collections.

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