Hrithik and Katrina were my first choice: Siddharth Anand

 

I thought of this title four years ago and I liked it. I registered it with my friend Sujoy Ghosh’s production company, as I didn’t have my own production company then. Also, at that time I didn’t have an action film in my radar. Coincidently, Sujoy wrote the script for the film, so I asked him for my title back.

 

Knight and Day chose me. Fox Studios asked me to make a film for them. They had a library of five thousand films. They asked me to pick one to remake. I picked a film called 500 Days of Summer. We started working on it and I also had a look at Knight and Day. After watching the film, I found it really bad. And I said let’s not make this it’s pretty bad, but they told me it really worked in India. The statistics told me that the film was a success all over the world except the US. It was a quintessential Hindi film. 

 

No, Hrithik and Katrina were my first and last choice. Those days Shahid and me were good friends and Mausam had just released. He wasn’t doing any film then which may have spurred the rumours. 

Did you have to make major changes in the film after Hrithik’s surgery?

The whole climax changed, because I had a lot of free time then. I went into editing my film, made numerous changes in the script and even changed the climax. The story changed a little. The climax completely changed. I think it was destiny. 

 

How can there be a replacement for Hrithik? My backup would be to go back to my village.