Aishwarya Rai talks working with Salman Khan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Aishwarya Rai is getting candid about Salman Khan's role in director Mansoor Khan's Josh.

The 49-year-old actress, who has received multiple accolades over the years, spilt details about the film that was released more than two decades ago.

According to the director's initial plans, Salman and Aamir Khan were being cast in the lead roles.

The actress, who played Sherly in the 2000 directorial, confirmed in an old interview, “I think the cast was meant to be Aamir (Khan) and Salman at one point and eventually it became Shah Rukh and I think Aamir (Khan) was to play Chandrachur (Singh)’s role. So the cast kept changing at different points in time, but Sherly remained Sherly. So I had said yes to Mansoor (Khan)."

The Jodhaa Akbar star previously shared that Sanjay Leela Bhansali had initially considered casting Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Salman Khan in the lead roles of his film Bajirao Mastani.

Reacting to his preference for the film, she said, “He (Sanjay) did see us working as the cast that he saw was ideal for the film. But circumstantially, I could not work with the kind of team he was looking at.”

She opened up to Karan Johar on his show Koffee with Karan, adding “Well, I was game to play Mastani but not with the Bajirao he had in mind. So, this was evident probably nationally. The media made it out to be that Aishwarya walks out of Bajirao Mastani. We hadn’t communicated then because I was in hospital with my leg laid up.”

The Dabangg actor and Aishwarya were last seen sharing screen space on Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.