Ameesha Patel recalled leaving a highly-paid job to pursue 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai'. Here's how the film ended up in her kitty.
All the '90s kids would have grown up listening to songs from Ameesha Patel and Hrithik Roshan's movie, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. It was the actress's debut movie which became a blockbuster hit as soon as it was released. However, did you know that Ameesha Patel left her lucrative job at, Morgan Stanley for the movie? For the unversed, the film was the second highest-grossing movie in 2000. Hrithik Roshan gained overnight fame, and the film even made a place in the Guinness World Records.
The actress was under the impression that she was called for a social lunch. There was Rakesh's uncle, his wife, Pinky Aunty, and Hrithik. The actress wanted to head back home. Rakesh Roshan then asked the actress about her plans for the future. Ameesha said:
"Honestly, I am at the crossroads, I don’t know whether I want to go back to Boston and study further or take up the job offer I had received from Morgan Stanley, who were quite impressed with my CV. They needed someone well-exposed and educated to represent them. It was a fabulous position. I was quite confused at that point in my life, which I expressed to Rakesh uncle. But, none matched what he had in store for me.”
Did you know that Ameesha Patel had rejected movies like Prem Aggan and Himalaya Putra before she signed for Kaho Na Pyaar Hai? During an interview with BeautybyBiE, the actress mentioned how she had first met Rakesh Roshan at a filmy wedding that she had attended. During that time, she was working as a top-head economic analyst. Ameesha remembered:
"Mr Rakesh Roshan was entering the venue, when I was exiting it. He looked at me, blinked for a while, looked at my father and asked him, ‘Girlfriend?’ My father said, ‘No, Rakesh. This is Ameesha. She just graduated and returned from Boston.’ And that was all the conversation that they had. If only I left a little later, or he came a little earlier, I don’t think the meeting would have happened at all.”
After meeting Rakesh Roshan, at the wedding, the actress was called over for lunch at Rakesh's home. She was reluctant to travel from Marine Drive to Juhu, and didn't wanted to attend it. Little Ameesha was unaware that she was being offered a movie on the pretext of lunch. Ameesha recalled:
"Like any teenager, I went with a white t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, no makeup, hair in a ponytail and sulking that I had to make this whole journey. I reached his home and entered the bar room. Hrithik was sitting there. We had been friends when we were kids. We had pretty much similar social circle. I looked at him and I thought to myself, ‘Wow, you have become a hell of a handsome guy’. And then I said, ‘Forget all that, where is the washroom?’ That was my first sentence to him. And he just looked at me and said, ‘This girl is cracked.’ I went to use the washroom. ”
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