Hrithik Roshan recently grabbed headlines for walking out of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, where he was allegedly cast as Ravana. The Film has Ranbir Kapoor playing Ram, and now rumours about Alia Bhatt stepping into Sita’s shoes have been hitting the front pages of the rumour columns. It has also been suggested in reports that after HR walked out of the film, KGF actor Yash was approached to play Ravana.

But do you know, this is not the first Ramayana the actor has walked out of? While digging through some old reports, we found out that the Krrish actor was also part of a Ramayana in the making earlier as well. The film was being made by none other than his then father-in-law, actor Sanjay Khan. The film was titled Legend Of Ram, where Khan handed over the lead responsibility to his superstar son-in-law.

While Hrithik Roshan was to play Ram in the film, it was Sanjay Khan’s son and Hrithik Roshan’s ex-brother-in-law Zayed Khan who took the responsibility to play Lakshman. In an interview with India Glitz the Main Hoon Naa actor confirmed, “Yes, my father is indeed making the Ramayana. It’s called The Legend Of Rama. He has been planning this film for three years. But he needed the perfect Rama. And who but Hrithik would be perfect for the role? Earlier, Hrithik had no dates. But now he’s doing very selected films.” He also talked about playing Lakshman in the film and said, “Playing Laxman in one form or another is the story of my life.”

The film was being scripted by a Britain-based writer Faroukh Dhondy who wanted to portray the film as a modernised Ramayana, just what Om Raut claimed his film Adipurush to be! Sanjay Khan’s Ramayana with the Vikram Vedha star as Ram was said to be a traditional adaptation of the grammar of modern films. Some reports even suggest that it was highly inspired by RR Martin’s novel Game Of Thrones.

Talking about the cast, Amitabh Bachchan was approached to play Dashrath in this film which was planned in 2009. Jackie Shroff was finalised to play Ravana while the hunt for Sita was going on when the film was unceremoniously shelved for reasons best known to Sanjay Khan and his team. But it might have been a boon in disguise for Hrithik Roshan’s career since the film might have been rejected owing to modernisation.

In 2021, Hrithik Roshan was offered Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, but this time he was approached for the role of Ravana. It was reported that he and Ranbir Kapoor were both keen to do the project and even had some script-reading sessions. Both were offered 75 crores as their fee for this highly ambitious film. However, the actor decided to walk out of the film after much delay.

On the work front, Hrithik is currently working on Fighter with Deepika Padukone. He is supposed to do the next installment of Krrish and War once he wraps up this action thriller. While War 2 will have Hrithik locking horns with Jr NTR and helmed by Ayan Mukerji, it is rumoured that Krrish 4 will have a new director on board.

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