With churning out more than 1500 movies per year, Bollywood and Hollywood have successfully managed to corner the global cinema. Making it big and carving a niche for themselves is a dream that a million eyes watch collectively. It is often seen that to take their popularity and stardom to next level many actors from the Bollywood industry try their hand in the Hollywood industry and the same does the Hollywood actors. We have seen celebs like Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan, and many others breaking the ground with their performances in Hollywood movies but there have been many Bollywood actors who have turned down the offers from the Hollywood industry. Here we bring you a list of the top 8 Bollywood actors who turned down Hollywood movies offers:
1. Shahrukh Khan (Slumdog Millionaire): The King Khan of Bollywood had a chance to take his massive stardom to another level by doing the role of Prem Kumar in Slumdog Millionaire but he turned it down. Later the role was given to Anil Kapoor and he did it pretty gracefully.
2. Hrithik Roshan (Fast and Furious 7): The Greek God of Bollywood is one of those actors who can put many Hollywood actors in shame. The looks and well-built body of Hrithik, made Fast and Furious director, Rob Cohen a big fan of him. He become such a big fan of him that he wanted to cast Hrithik in 'Fast and Furious 7' but Hrithik rejected the offer due to his packed schedule in Bollywood.
3. Deepika Padukone (Fast and Furious 7): After rocking the Hollywood stage in 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage opposite Vin Diesel, Deepika got another chance to prove her mettle with Fast and furious, but she turned down the offer as at that time she was busy filming with Farah Khan's 'Happy New Year' which also starred Shah Rukh Khan.
4. Akshay Kumar: While Khiladi Kumar was doing 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha', 'Jolly LLB 2' and 'Rustom' in Bollywood, he got an offer for a Hollywood film opposite Dwayne Johnson but he rejected that saying he wanted to focus on his career in Bollywood.’
5. Irfan Khan (interstellar): One of the most versatile and critically acclaimed actors in the Hindi-film story industry, Irrfan Khan has been a part of several Hollywood projects. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar would have been one of those projects too had he not turned down the role, that eventually went to Matt Damon.
6. Priyanka Chopra (Immortals): Today, PeeCee is a big international star but long before she did Quantico and Baywatch, she got an offer from Hollywood for movie titles Immortals which she had to turn down as its dates were clashing with 7 Khoon Maaf.
7. Aishwarya Rai Bachhan (Troy): According to a report in Cosmopolitan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned down the role of Briseis in the Oscar-nominated Troy, alongside Brad Pitt, as she wasn't comfortable with shooting steamy scenes that the script demanded.
8. Dilip Kumar (Lawrence of Arabia): The legendary Dilip Kumar was offered a role in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. The reason behind turning down the offer is still unknown.
