Vivek Oberoi who will be seen next in PM Narendra Modi biopic as the titular role has had his fair share of hits and flops. The latter more so than the other, but recently he gathered fame with the Amazon Web series ‘Inside Edge’ and seems to have taken his place in the list of well-known celebrities.
The actor time and again has talked about the films he chose to do and the ones he dropped out of. He has confirmed that he was the first choice for lead roles in popular films like Munna Bhai MBBS, Hum Tum and many more. The actor unfortunately could not adjust his dates or else his career could have had a completely different fate.
However Vivek has never regretted his decisions, according to Huffington Post, when talking about leaving the project titled ‘Munna Bhai MBBS’ he said, “I wanted to do Munna Bhai, I said yes to it, but destiny had it that it was supposed to be a Sanjay Dutt film. I couldn’t adjust my dates.”
The reports also mentioned Vivek had Farah Khan approach him for a villain’s role in her hit 2006 film Om Shanti Om which went on to star Arjun Rampal. He refused the role since he didn’t want to play a negative character again after Company,
Farhan Akhtar had later also approached the actor for films like Rock On (2008), Shaad Ali’s Bunty aur Babli (2005), Kunal Kohli’s Hum Tum (2004) which went on to gather critical acclaim.
Talking about his decisions, Vivek there is more to the story. “For the 10-odd films I let go which succeeded, there were 70 or 80 films that I let go off which failed and bombed at the box office,” Oberoi said, adding, “How do you make sense of it? Well, you take an informed call or life takes it for you.”
Vivek’s next PM Narendra Modi has been surrounded by controversies and now has been put on hold by the Election Commission until the Lok Sabha elections are over.