India, Aug. 6 -- According to veteran filmmaker and producer Suneel Darshan, the role of Sonia in the 2004 thriller Aitraaz was offered to Kareena Kapoor Khan but eventually became a breakthrough moment for Priyanka Chopra Jonas. This new revelation brings attention back to one of the most talked-about off-screen dynamics in Bollywood.

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Priyanka's fearless performance as Sonia, a complex character with varying degrees of innocence and guilt, was the most memorable part of the Abbas-Mustan courtroom drama, which also featured Akshay Kumar as the male lead. Darshan revealed to Bollywood Bubble how Kareena blew the chance to p...