Imtiaz Ali directed Love Aaj Kal is still one of the most loved movies of Bollywood and the pairing of Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone was loved by the audiences but there was one person who was not happy with this casting.
Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan wanted to do this movie because at that time, she was dating Saif Ali Khan but Imtiaz Ali had his reasons to choose Deepika over Kareena. However, Kareena was so upset that she talked about it during an award function which made Imtiaz Ali a little uncomfortable.
During an interview, Imtiaz Ali expressed his disappointment as he said, “The thing with flattery is that you don’t recognise it when it happens. It was not a happy feeling when Kareena publicly said what she did. I felt bad because we had cleared the issue and I didn’t realise that she still felt so bad about it.”
When Deepika was asked about it, she said, “I don’t know about that. I never had this conversation with Saif, I never brought it up. But I do know for a fact that Imtiaz was always keen on working with me on this particular film. And it happened.”
Deepika also said that an actress just can’t expect to do every film with her boyfriend. In her words, “I don’t expect that every film I do has to be with my boyfriend. I think that’s a bit ridiculous. And I know as an actor I will have to work with different kinds of people. A director knows the kind of characters he wants in his film and the kind of actors who can play those characters. So it would be a bit ridiculous to expect that my real-life boyfriend will be my co-star in every film of mine.”
Saif supported Kareena’s casting in Love Aaj Kal but in the end, he respected Imtiaz’s decision. During an interview he said, “When your personal and professional lives are mixed together, it is hard to clearly feel about things. Of course, I missed her a lot and I wish she was in the film, but you have to stay true to your director and this is the casting that he wanted and we followed that.”
Well, we think that the casting for Love Aaj Kal was just perfect, what do you say?
