Did You Know Shah Rukh Khan’s Initial Role in Fauji Required Him To Just Count Crows?

Indian
television
has
given
several
patriotic
shows
and
the
iconic
shows
that
one
will
remember
is
Shah
Rukh
Khan’s

Fauji.
As
India
completes
75
years
of
Independence
today,
we
bring
you
trivia
of
the
show,
that
was
revealed
by
the
actor
himself.

As
the
viewers
are
aware,
SRK
played
the
role
of
Lieutenant
Abhimanyu
Rai
in
the
show
and
received
accolades
for
his
performance.
But
did
you
know
that
the
actor
was
not
the
original
choice
for
the
show?

Yes,
you
read
it
right!
The
role
of
Lt.
Abhimanyu
Rai
was
originally
to
be
played
by
producer-writer-director
Colonel
RK
Kapoor’s
son.
In
an
interview
with
Deccan
Chronicle
way
back
in
2016,
SRK
shared
an
interesting
hitherto
unknown
anecdote
on
how
he
got
to
bag
the
lead
role
in
the
cult
television
series
Fauji.
SRK
revealed
that
his
initial
role
in
the
show
required
him
to
just
count
crows!

The
Bollywood
superstar
revealed
how
he
bagged
the
show
and
said
that
he
landed
up
on
the
sets
of
Fauji,
because
the
house-owner
that
they
were
speaking
to
after
they
needed
a
smaller
house
post
his
father’s
demise,
got
to
know
that
he
had
been
in
Mumbai
to
act,
and
he
revealed
that
his
own
father-in-law
was
producing
a
TV
serial.

SRK
said,
“When
I
went
there,
Colonel
Kapoor
(Producer-director)
offered
me
this
sweet
role,
where
I
make
a
mistake
and
the
Major
would
ask
me
to
go
a
tree
and
count
the
number
of
crows
in
it.
Once
I
reveal
there
are
four,
he
asks
me
to
be
‘Saavdhaan’.
I
was
embarrassed
to
go
back
and
tell
my
mother
that
my
role
was
all
about
counting
crows.”

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He
concluded
by
saying,
“A
lot
of
what
I
am
today
is
courtesy
luck.
The
colonel’s
son,
who
was
the
cinematographer,
was
also
to
play
the
lead.
But
he
realised
he
can’t
do
both
simultaneously
and
decided
to
stick
to
cinematography.
The
colonel
couldn’t
find
a
replacement
in
time,
so
he
said,
‘Hey,
you.
You
are
the
one.
You
are
good,
jolly
good.
Come
on.
Go
there.’.
And
I
became
Abhimanyu
Rai,
overnight.
And
he
was
the
nicest
to
me.
All
of
them
treated
me
like
family.”