Mumbai: Producer Ratan Jain gives us the back story about the casting of Josh . He said, “This is a big story. If I were to dive into it, people would derive different meanings from it. When we first started, it was Aamir and Shah Rukh. I had recommended Shah Rukh, and Mansoor Khan had recommended Aamir. I knew Aamir — we had done Akele Hum Akele Tum together.”

Ratan Jain said, “We had decided that Aamir would play Chandrachur’s character and Shah Rukh would play Max’s character. Mansoor told me in passing that Aamir wants to play Max’s role, to which I said Shah Rukh won’t do it. We had a meeting in this very room. There were no table chairs but a baithak setup at that time. Shahrukh arrived for the meeting since he was the one who suggested that we should do a joint narration. Before

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