Can you believe it? India’s current nomination for Oscars 2010, the Marathi film, Harishchandrachi Factory would have been produced by Shah Rukh Khan’s production house, Red Chillies Entertainment. But then fate had other plans!

Reveals an insider source, “Paresh Mokashi, Harishchandrachi Factory’s director, had approached Juhi Chawla hoping a backing for his debut project. Doing the needful, Juhi forwarded this project to her ex-partner, Shah Rukh Khan’s company, Red Chillies Entertainment. But a fact that Shah Rukh Khan may not be aware of back then was that his creative team didn’t even consider the film because it was to be made in Marathi, and Marathi films were not exactly on their agenda at that point of time. So naturally, Paresh had to face rejection yet again like he was facing everywhere else. This then lead him to finally sell his house to make his dream come true.

A friend of Juhi reveals to us, Juhi still can’t forget the passion Paresh had back then in his eyes. “He was so charged that it should be no surprise for anyone that he has made the film the way he wanted it to be.” the source concludes.

-Sampurn Media