Before Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Rajinikanth, Shankar Wanted To Make Robot With Shah Rukh Khan And Priyanka Chopra(Photo Credit–Still/Facebook)

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Robot featuring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead received a lot of attention, and even international audiences too praised the movie and its concept. From music, visual effects and acting everything was praised. However, before the two actors came on board, director Shankar had roped in Shah Rukh Khan to play the lead, along with Priyanka Chopra as the female lead. Scroll below to read the whole scoop.

Originally titled Enthiran in Tamil, the film also stars Danny Denzongpa in the negative role, along with Santhanam and Karunas in supporting roles. In the 2015 sequel, the South superstar reprised his character, while Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson were new cast members.

Coming back to the topic, Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wasn’t the first choice of Shankar for Robot but it was Kamal Haasan and Preity Zinta. The filmmaker had even started working on the film in 1999. During the same time, the director got busy with Nayak and decided to postpone the shoot of his sci-fi film. Soon when Shankar wanted to resume, the actors got busy.

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