Here we come up with a list of Bollywood movies which underwent through replacements in cast because of some weird reasons.
1. Supriya Pathak replaces Smriti Irani in All Is Well
All Is Well, a 2015 romantic-comedy drama was directed by Umesh Shukla. Though the film failed to hook up the audience and didn’t receive a critical acclaim as well, but had a strong cast constituting Rishi Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Supriya Pathak and Asin in lead roles.
Supriya Pathak played on-screen mother of Junior Bachchan in the film but earlier the role was supposed to be played by Smriti Irani. Infact some sequences of the movie was shot with Smriti Irani, that why the film has continuity issues as well. During the filming, Smriti Irani became the HRD Minister and got too busy and hence Supriya Pathak replaced her in the movie.
2. Govinda cameo was removed from Jagga Jasoos
Jagga Jasoos, a musiacal adventure directed by Anurag Basu and released in 2017 had the potential of becoming a critically acclaimed film globally but the long delay in its editing ruined its prospects of becoming an internationally celebrated film. Very few people must be aware that Govinda was supposed to play a cameo role in the movie but somehow the plans didn’t materialize.
A couple of years later after the release of the movie, director Anurag Basu made a clarification that Govinda wasn’t included into the movie because of changes in the storyline.
3. John Abraham replaced Sushant Singh Rajput in Romeo Akbar Walter
Romeo Akbar Walter was a 2019 action-drama revolving around the life of a spy, starring John Abraham in the lead role and was directed by Robby Grewal.
The makers of the movie had already released the official posters as well as the motion posters starring Sushant Singh Rajput in the lead role but Sushant being pre-occupied with other projects like Drive and Raabta walked off the movie. Later the makers found their replacement in John Abraham in the lead role.
4. Harshvardhan Rane replaced Abhishek Bachchan in Paltan
Paltan was a 2018 war-action movie directed by J.P Dutta and having a huge star cast including Jackie Shroff, Sonu Sood, Harshvardhan Rane, Ronit Roy, Esha Gupta to name a few.
Abhishek Bachchan was cast in the movie to play a significant role but Junior Bacchan left the project just before the movie went on to the shooting floor. Later the makers finalized the newbie Harshvardhan Rane for the role to be earlier played by Abhishek Bachchan. The storyline of the movie revolved around Indo-China war but failed to have an impact on the audience.