Shah Rukh Was Not Meant To Die In Mani Ratnam’s ‘Dil Se’, Reveals Manisha Koirala

Mumbai: Decades after the release of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Dil Se’, lead actress Manisha Koirala has revealed that Shah Rukh Khan’s character in the original script was supposed to live and not die.

The 1998 Mani Ratnam movie had a tragic ending, with both the male and female leads Shah Rukh and Manisha dying.

However, Manisha has now disclosed that the original script of the movie had a different ending with the actress, who played the role of a terrorist, exploding herself while Shah Rukh had survived.

“But also in the original script, we had agreed that for both the guys, terrorists and the hero, the cause is larger in the sense that she is going to anyway mutilate herself and actually in the present version he goes and he also dies. But in the original version he lets her die,” Manisha told ANI.

“He says, ‘if you’re good for this cause, even my cause is larger’, so that was somehow agreeable to all of us. But they changed at the last minute,” the actress added.

Manisha also shared that she liked the original script in which SRK survived.

“That time I had liked the original one. I said because there is no way they would have become one. So it’s like sometimes unrequited love is far more interesting than the one that gets fulfilled in life or after death. It is not interesting than the love story which is left unfulfilled,” said the actress.

However, Manisha refrained from revealing why the original script was changed and by whom.

In ‘Dil Se’, Shah Rukh Khan played the role of All India Radio employee Amarkanth Verma and Manisha essayed the character of a terrorist sleeper cell named Meghna or Moina.

Amar and Moina died in each other’s arms in a tear-jerking climax.

The film had gained moderate success at the domestic box-office, but performed well overseas.