India, Aug. 12 -- Filmmaker Farah Khan recently visited Shruti Haasan's Mumbai home for her cooking vlog, where the conversation turned into an amusing trip down memory lane. Farah revealed how she once approached Shruti's father, and actor Kamal Haasan, to play a pivotal role in one of her films opposite Shah Rukh Khan, only to have him turn it down in his own inimitable style.

Farah made her grand directorial debut with Shah Rukh Khan's Main Hoon Na, which also featured Zayed Khan, Sushmita Sen, Amrita Rao and Suniel Shetty in key roles. In her recent vlog, the filmmaker revealed that she had first offered the role of the antagonist, Raghavan Dutta, to Kamal Haasan.

Farah told Shruti, "Kamal sir was my first choice for Main Hoon Na, b...