Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor’s movie Padmaavat that did superbly well in the box office has another story that reveals the original cast of Padmaavat. A lot of people might be unaware that this wasn’t necessarily the original cast of the film and could have been entirely different. In fact, director of the film, Sanjay Leela Bhansali had first approached Shah Rukh Khan to play Maharawal Ratan Singh – Shahid Kapoor’s character, according to the reports.
However, ‘King Khan’ refused to play as he thought that the main focus of the film is on Rani Padmini and Khilji. On learning that, Bhansali offered SRK the role of Khilji – played by Ranveer. It would have been a great fit too since some of SRK’s best work on-screen have been playing negative roles as he did films like Baazigar, Darr, Anjaam and others.
But SRK refused to play Khilji as well and sources had revealed at the time that it was because Shah Rukh Khan was still facing backlash over his film Raees and thought that playing Khilji would just make things worse for him as it was a purely negative character and the grey character in Raees had already got fans booing him.
