Many are unaware that Baazigar, which made Shah Rukh Khan a star overnight, was first offered to not one but many superstars.

Akshay Kumar was ... or Anil Kapoor taken up the role, the landscape of Bollywood might have looked very different today. But as fate would have it, Baazigar belonged to Shah Rukh Khan—and ...

This film was rejected by Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar before Shah Rukh Khan took the role and became an overnight star.