Gadar Trivia: Take the big heroine or Amrish Puri… Ameesha Patel was entered in Gadar because she had defeated 500 girls.

Anil Sharma Share Gadar Trivia: Sunny Deol’s film Gadar was released in the year 2001. This is one of the biggest films of his career. This film was directed by Anil Sharma. Anil Sharma has now told in an interview how Amrish Puri and Ameesha Patel were entered into it? He said that the makers had put a condition before him that either they should cast a big heroine opposite Sunny Deol or take a veteran artist like Amrishrish Puri? After hearing this from the makers, Anil immediately decided to cast Amrish Puri.

Anil Sharma recently gave an interview to a YouTuber, in which mutiny Told tales of. He said, “We also had the issue of budget. Zee (Zee Studios – Production House) told me that see Sunny sir, it is done, now I have only Amrish Puri Is. I will take a young girl, new heroine. The role is so good that the girl who comes will become a star.”

Aishwarya-Kajol were approached

Anil Sharma told that before the budget problem, he had approached many big heroines for Gadar, including the names of Kajol and Aishwarya Rai. However, things did not work out. He told that many heroines did not understand the story and many felt that there was no glamor in it. Then when the budget condition was set, they started taking auditions of new girls.

Ameesha was selected among 400-500 girls

Anil Sharma said, “We auditioned 400-500 girls. Out of that, we selected 40-50 girls and then we selected 12 girls, among those 12 girls we selected Ameesha Patel.” Anil Sharma told that when he cast Ameesha for Gadar, the film ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’ had not yet come out, although the shooting had started. During this time, she also told that Ameesha Patel worked very hard for the role of Sakina in Gadar and she remained Sakina completely for 6 months.