‘Bhumi Pednekar Took My Audition For Jab Tak Hai Jaan’, Reveals Actor Sharib Hashmi

Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer Jab Tak Hai Jaan became a film that touched people to its core. Co-starring Anushka Sharma, the film earned over Rs 200 crores at the box office. Around everything else, it was also the debut film of actor Sharib Hashmi who is best known for his stint as J.K. Talpade in The Family Man.

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The YRF film recently completed 10 years on November 13th and Sharib on the occasion shared various anecdotes from the film including the fact that actress Bhumi Pednekar took his first audition.

Sharib revealed that he was initially rejected but later bagged the role and was called to shoot within 2 days.

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Revealing that after giving up hopes on acting he took up a job at UTV Bindaas as AVP Programming. “3-4 months after…, I got a call from Shanoo Sharma, YRF (Yash Raj Films)’s casting director... She had seen my short film and hence… asked me to audition… My first audition was conducted by Bhumi Pednekar. It was a wonderful experience… Later, I got a call that I have not been selected and somebody else has got the part” he told Bollywood Hungama

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Further, he shared how he backed both Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Filmistaan and he had no other option than to leave his job and pursue acting projects.

“I was so scared by my experiences during the struggling phase that I didn’t want to quit my job... The shoot of both films was to happen back to back… I asked for 45 days' leave. I was ready for unpaid leave. I didn’t want to quit my work but at the same time, I wanted to make good use of the opportunity at hand. But the management told me, ‘Ya tu naukri kar le ya acting kar le’. I realized that I don’t want to work in a place where my passion is not respected. So, I left the job.”

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Sharib also discussed how after these two films, he had to struggle again as things went downhill and multiple projects of his got shelved.

He told Bollywood Hungama in another interview, “So, after Filmistaan, things changed and also didn’t change! I had signed some very interesting projects. One of them was indeed Nikkhil Advani’s film. I was going to play the lead. But that film got shelved. Then, Samir Karnik… signed me and Manoj Bajpayee for a film. It had a terrific script. This film also couldn’t be made. Then there was one more movie for which we shot for 2 days and it got stalled.”

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