{"id":830469,"date":"2026-04-04T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.123telugu.com\/?p=830469"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:59:50","slug":"hot-topic-who-is-the-south-star-that-rejected-akshayes-role-in-dhurandhar-avd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/hot-topic-who-is-the-south-star-that-rejected-akshayes-role-in-dhurandhar-avd\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"highlighted-red\">Hot topic:<\/span> Who is the south star that rejected Akshaye&#8217;s role in Dhurandhar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6.webp\" alt=\"Dhurandhar\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-816724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6-1170x658.webp 1170w, https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dhurandhar-6-585x329.webp 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mystery around Dhurandhar continues to deepen as casting director Mukesh Chhabra revealed that three actors rejected the powerful role of Rehman Dakait, eventually played by Akshaye Khanna. <\/p>\n<p>What has caught everyone\u2019s attention is that one of those actors was a South star. While Mukesh chose not to disclose names, the revelation has sparked intense speculation in film circles. <\/p>\n<p>Many believe the actor could be from the Telugu industry, though no confirmation has surfaced yet. The role is now being widely appreciated, leading many to call it a missed golden opportunity for those who turned it down. <\/p>\n<p>As curiosity grows, the identity of the South star remains the biggest talking point. It will be even more interesting if the makers reveal who the star that rejected such a big role was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery around Dhurandhar continues to deepen as casting director Mukesh Chhabra revealed that three actors rejected the powerful role of Rehman&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narendhar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}