Rakul Preet Singh Reveals She Was Replaced From Prabhas' Film, MS Dhoni Biopic: 'I Wasn't Corrupted...'

Rakul Preet Singh has revealed that she was replaced in a film starring Prabhas after shooting for it for four days. She said she was innocent and didn’t take the matter to her heart, but after she was replaced from a second Telugu film, she was worried about her impression in the industry. She also opened up about being replaced by Disha Patani in MS Dhoni: The Untold Story because her dates were clashing with another shoot.

Rakul told Ranveer Allahabadia, “I was replaced from a film after shooting for four days, before I made my debut. This was a Telugu film with Prabhas. But sometimes, when you don’t know much about the industry or its way of functioning, you don’t take it to your heart. There is a beauty in innocence and naivety. I was so naive, I thought, ‘Oh, ok they have removed me? No problem, maybe this wasn’t meant for me, I will do something else.’ Because I was not corrupted. When people start surrounding you, they tell you that this happened because of that, it poisons you. But I had no one around me. When you are so naive, it helps.”

Rakul mentioned that the producer wanted an established actor for the part and she was new back then. She added, “I wasn’t even informed; I had gone to Delhi after wrapping my schedule and learnt about this later. Then that happened again, but I had just signed the film, not begun shooting when I was replaced. Now, when this happened with two big films, a perception starts to form, rumours start to surface where people wonder if you are getting replaced because you have an attitude problem or don’t know acting. I knew I wouldn’t get that first big launch, I had to work my way around. And then, my debut was a small film which became a big hit.”

Rakul also recalled getting replaced in MS Dhoni’s biopic due to date issues. “It was the role which eventually Disha Patani played. I had done the costume and script reading, but then their dates shifted by a month, and I was shooting films with Ram Charan and Jr NTR. Bruce Lee: The Fighter was about to release in a month and two songs were yet to be shot. So, I couldn’t adjust the dates at all, and I cried that I missed out on such a good film,” she concluded.