India, June 20 -- Can you imagine Rang De Basanti (2006) without Aamir Khan?

Well that was the original vision, before Aamir heard of this film in the making and got himself involved in the project. The same was revealed by Kamlesh Pandey, one of the screenwriters on the film during a chat with Ravya Sarda for her YouTube show. Rang De Basanti was initially supposed to be a "small film", and Manoj Bajpayee had already been signed on for the role of DJ/Chandrashekhar Azad.

Kamlesh recalled, "We had been roaming around with the script of the film for 6 years, and no one was ready to make that film. We had signed Manoj for the role that Aamir played finally. We thought we would make a small film; we didn't have a big budget. The moment Aam...