Akshay Kumar may replace SRK in Shirish Kunder’s "Joker"

Shahrukh Khan is known to go all out for his friends, he has recently completed good friend Farah Khan directed film Om Shanti Om which is also being produced under his home production banner. SRK and Farah have also worked together in her first debut direction Main Hoon Na which was a hit and they both go back a long way.

Naturally now when Farah’s husband Shirish has entered films as a director, he has received the strong support of SRK.
Shirish recently approached Shahrukh for his second film Joker, a sci-fi futuristic film. Shahrukh had earlier agreed to do the film as Shirish was Farah’s husband, but now after he recently read the final script of the film, SRK was unsure.

Shirish had made his grand directorial debut in style last year with the Salman-Akshay-Preity starrer Jaanemann. Unfortunately the film didn’t do too well at the box-office; nonetheless the filmmaker is still being given a chance by many production houses with his next film. When Shirish approached SRK with the idea of doing a sci-fi futuristic film, the actor was extremely excited with the concept.

However recently when SRK saw the final draft of the film, he was not too happy with it. However as he no doubt did not want to let his friend Farah down, he requested Shirish to re-work the script. But Shirish already has a reputation for being extremely headstrong, and was upset with the request made by SRK. Shirish did not want to change the script and he supposedly had a showdown with Shahrukh over the issue.

Shirish has now approached other actors for the role; Akshay may replace SRK in the film Joker as he has agreed to work on the film. He has also earlier starred in Shirish’s debut film. During the making of Shirish’s first film too, there were talks of disagreements between the producer of the film Sajid Nadiadwala and him.

So is Shirish making foes in the film industry already? However SRK and Farah’s film Om Shanti Om will be soon releasing and to avoid any bad publicity, SRK recently claimed that he had not declined to do Shirish’s film, but as he took pretty long to revert back to Shirish, things were being misconstrued by the media. However he did not confirm that he was doing the film either.

Incidentally SRK has made a special appearance in Akshay Kumar’s film Heyy Babyy. So whether this will this affect SRK and Farah’s friendship remains to be seen.