1. - Ajay Devgan, Hum Kisi Sed Kum Nahin, India, 2002.      Hindi comedy director David Dhawan first asked Khan, Bollywood’s Official Badshah (Bad Boy), to play the bowling alley bouncer.

2. - Shahrukh Khan, Devdas, India, 2002.      Three of the four mighty Khans of the Bollywood 90s were offered top roles. In the event, only the mightiest - Shahrukh - starred after Salman passed on the famous titular role of the much filmed 1917 novel by Bengali author Sarat Chandra Chattopadhye.

3. - Ajay Devgan, Hum Kisi Kum Nahin, India, 2002.      Salman changed his mind about being Mumbai´s crime Baadshah in the Bollywood Analyze This, 1999. Ajay was no De Niro.

4. - Jimmy Shergill, Dil Ha Turnhaara (My Heart Is Yours), India, 2002. A decade earlier, director Rajkumar Santoshi announced the film for Khan, Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadfri. Shekhar Kapur, Dimple Kapadia. New helmer Kundan Shah dumbed - and younged - the whole mess down for Shergill, Arjun Rampal, Rekha, a beastly Govind Namdeo and shining Mahima Chaudhry.