Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra reveals that James Bond star Daniel Craig auditioned for Aamir Khan starrer Rang De Basanti
In the book Mehra recalled how producers David Reid and Adam Bowling were instrumental in the casting of Alice Patten and Steven Mackintosh as Sue and James McKinley. I remember vividly that one of the people who auditioned for the part of James McKinley the young jailor who walks Bhagat Singh Rajguru and Sukhdev to be hanged was none other than current James Bond Daniel Craig he wrote in the book.Daniel Craig was my first choice but he requested if we could allow some time as he was also being considered to be the next James Bond.Rang De Basanti was released in 2006 and starred Aamir Khan Siddharth Atul Kulkarni Kunal Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan Sharman Joshi and others. Daniel Craig debuted as James Bond in the same year with Casino Royale.