Aishwarya Rai Bachchan faced a lot of unfavourable treatment after her alleged breakup with Salman Khan, and one of the popular speculations is that Salman Khan asked Shah Rukh Khan and the entire team of Chalte Chalte to remove Aishwarya Rai from the film and she overnight replaced by Rani Mukerji and wasn’t even informed about it.
Aishwarya in one of her interviews had admitted to being shocked by getting removed from multiple films one of them being Chalte Chalte. . There was a time when Shah Rukh Khan too regretted his decision not to take a stand for Aishwarya at that time, despite her being his good friend. This old video of the Jawanstar shows him expressing his disappointment over replacing Aishwarya with Rani because he was also a producer. Shah Rukh Khan had openly apologised to Aishwarya for the same. “Yes obviously, Aishwarya was a very close friend and I have done marvelous films with her. I personally was very saddened to reach something at this level and I feel very sorry about it and I genuinely do. As a producer my hand was very tight because I am not the only producer, we felt the whole affair was very sad, it was not meant to be. It was not a superstitious but a professional decision and even professionally we feel very bad, there are no two ways about it.”
