Singer-actor Gippy Grewal has uncovered that the team of Laal Singh Chaddha wanted his son Gurfateh to portray the role of young Aamir Khan. In a recent interaction, Gippy shared that director Mukesh Chhabra asked him to send a few ‘reference videos’ of Gurfateh, likewise called Shinda. Be that as it may, circumstances didn’t work out as ‘an angle in the film’ required Gurfateh to cut his hair.
In a recent interaction with News18, Gippy said, “Shinda played a small part in one of my films Ardaas (2016). The makers of Laal Singh Chaddha saw that and they approached me as they wanted him to play the young version of Aamir Khan in the film. Mukesh (Chhabra, casting director) also got in touch with me and told me to send across a few reference videos of Shinda saying ‘hello’ in Punjabi, which would also be a look test for him. I wasn’t even aware of the story of the film at that point in time.”
He also said, “There was an angle in the film where he had to get his hair cut. But we weren’t okay with it. In fact, it was not possible for us. That’s why he couldn’t do the film.”
