Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish
I never knew Gauri asked SRK to take a break from Aish. My guess is that she felt it would cause a rift in SRK and Salman's friendship. Have you noticed that the two major fights between SRK and Salman were always over his girlfriends, Aish and then Katrina? I think Gauri must have sensed that Salman did not approve of how successful the SRK/Aishwarya pairing was, both in the public, and in terms of them as friends and co-workers in private life.
We've already seen from his comments on Devdas that he was mighty angry at being passed over for the film. His comments about how Bhansali only hires troubled people and SRK, Aish, and Madhuri are all troubled, only he isn't.
Interestingly, another poster on here with connections to Aish said that she doesn't have good feelings towards SRK anymore either. That when the Jawan cameo was sent to her, she didn't give it a second thought before rejecting because she feels he has monopolized the film business. We also know that Aish is a Scorpio and they do not forgive. She's the only one of Salman's ex-gfs to never forgive him and I've always felt she never truly forgave SRK either. Only agreed to be on cordial terms with him because of how small the industry is and because of his close relationship to the Bachchans and Abhishek. Abhishek does not like playing second to anyone but he doesn't mind taking supporting roles behind SRK, having done it twice. And even now their kids are at school together. Very noticeable that she never does cameos for him like in Om Shanti Om, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, or Zero. She has a much better relationship with the "lesser" Kapoors like doing Fanney Khan for Anil Kapoor, being first choice for English Vinglish which was produced by Boney Kapoor, and even as far back as her item song in Shakti: The Power.
Based on this footage of how badly she was injured by Salman before her Filmfare win (for their shared film no less), I'm convinced she told Salman that he was lesser than SRK.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2PDEuwsoeJ
SRK must have been very desperate though with all his leading ladies unable to do the film. Kajol pregnant and unwilling to betray Aish especially when Aish was working so closely with Ajay. Juhi unfortunately out of the race now after Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani flopped. I can't imagine the conversations between SRK and Juhi when they have to come to the decision that she can't be his lead heroine anymore. And the next time she'll play alongside him in their joint production, she'll play his sister-in-law. Then Amisha was approached but her manager says no without even consulting her. It doesn't shock me that SRK was interested in working with her. She was being pursued by Bhansali and Farah Khan and based on SRK's issues with Hrithik and wanting to prove his dominance, it makes sense that he would want to take Hrithik's leading lady and prove she was an even better match for him. Meanwhile, all the other 90s actresses like Madhuri, Karishma, etc. have all retired at this point. I wonder why SRK never consulted Preity though but considering this was the year 2003, she was likely booked since all three of the most successful films that year starred her. I wonder if SRK also held annoyance that Preity was working with two stars he's not on good terms with: Hrithik who SRK didn't like and Sunny who didn't like SRK.
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