India, Sept. 17 -- Breaking into Bollywood has never been easy, and many actors have often spoken about losing roles to star kids with powerful connections. But one of the star kids had the opposite experience. Soha Ali Khan, despite coming from a film family, once left her corporate job to pursue her debut film, only to be replaced before she could even begin shooting, after Shah Rukh Khan came on board as the lead.

Soha recalled how she was replaced by Rani Mukerji in her first film and told Mashable India, "It was my first film. I quit Citibank. I had to pay Rs.17,000 as my rent. I was earning a good salary. And my plan was to leave for London. I was thinking that I would get a work permit there, and I would eventually settle there. T...