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The first film to earn Rs 100 crore net in India was Aamir Khan-starrer Ghajini in 2008. The action thriller was directed by AR Murugadoss and was the remake of his own 2005 Tamil film of the same name.
Shankar had first offered the 1999 political action film Mudhalvan to Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan before casting Arjun. In 2001, when he made its Bollywood remake Nayak, his first choices were Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan but eventually, he made his Hindi directorial debut with Anil Kapoor.