Mumbai, April 15 -- Randeep Hooda recently shared something surprising. He said he was once offered a big role in the movie Rang De Basanti but turned it down. Looking back, he now feels it was a big mistake that could have changed his career.

He was offered the role of Bhagat Singh in the film, which later went to actor Siddharth. Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra really wanted Randeep in the film and even visited him many times, sometimes while drunk, asking him to do the movie.

But Randeep said no. At that time, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma offered him a lead role in another movie called D. Ram Gopal Varma told him, "Do you want to stand behind Aamir Khan on a poster?" That hit Randeep's ego. He said, "My Jaat pride came out," and he rej...