Unless you have been living under a rock, by now everyone knows how Priyanka Chopra was in talks to star opposite Salman Khan in Bharat but walked out a week before the shoot started. Salman recently opened up about the casting choice for the role of Kumud and revealed that he always wanted Katrina Kaif to be a part of the film
At a recent media interaction, Salman was asked whether he thinks that Priyanka may have been a wrong cast choice for the role Salman answered saying, "No, not a wrong cast. But initially, Priyanka was very keen to do this film. Ali (director Ali Abbas Zafar) and we all thought it was Katrina Kaif's film. But Katrina and I did Tiger Zinda Hai just before that and Ali said that we need a girl who is Hindustani."
Salman added, "I tried telling him, 'Why can't she (Katrina) pull off this role? She has been living in India for the last 20 years.' But then Ali said, ‘Priyanka ka phone aaya tha… (we got a call from Priyanka)' and it is also true that Priyanka and my sister Arpita Khan are good friends. After all this, the ‘Nick story' happened, the embarrassing thing happened and she chose to get married."
Bharat is produced by Alvira Agnihotri, Bhushan Kumar, Atul Agnihotri, Krishan Kumar. Besides Salman and Katrina, it also stars Disha Patani, Sunil Grover, Jackie Shroff and Tabu. It is an Indian adaptation of 2014 South Korean film Ode to My Father.
