This actor would have been creating a stir as ‘Munna Bhaiya’, a ‘no’ brightened the fortunes of Divyendu Sharma

Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi starrer ‘Mirzapur’ is one of the most successful and popular series of Prime Video. Ever since the first season of this series came, its characters have had a tremendous fan following among the audience. From Kaleen Bhaiya, Guddu Pandit to Munna Bhaiya, all the characters were liked by the audience. The character of Munna Bhaiya in the series was played by Divyendu Sharma. Divyendu Sharma made a strong impact with the character of Munna Bhaiya in the first and second seasons of Mirzapur, but he was not seen in the third season, due to which the audience missed him a lot. But, do you know that Divyendu Sharma was not the first choice of the makers for the role of Munna Bhaiya.

Divyendu became famous by playing the character of Munna Bhaiya

Divyendu Sharma, who made a special place in people’s hearts with dialogues like ‘We are the heroes of Hindi films, no one can kill us. We are immortal’, could become ‘Munna Bhaiya’ only because of one actor’s ‘no’. Who was the makers’ first choice for Mirzapur’s Munna Bhaiya and why did he refuse to do this series, let us tell you.

Before Divyendu Sharma, he was offered the role of Munna Bhaiya

Actually, before Divyendu Sharma, the role of ‘Munna Bhaiya’ was offered to Amit Sial. Amit is also famous for the character of Brijesh Bhan in ‘Jamtara’. Amit Sial recently revealed in a conversation with Filmigyan that the role of Munna Bhaiya was first offered to him. He said, ‘The character of Munna Bhaiya in Mirzapur was first offered to me. But it is clear that I cannot look like Pankaj Tripathi’s son, so I refused this role. I am very happy with my decision that I did what I think is right for me. It has become a classic character. Divyendu has played this character very beautifully.’

Amit Sial plays the role of SP ‘Ram Sharan Maurya’ in Mirzapur

Will Divyendu Sharma return?

Let us tell you, so far 3 seasons of ‘Mirzapur’ have been released and all three seasons were super-duper hits. The character of Munna Bhaiya, who created havoc in the first and second seasons, dies at the end of season 2, due to which he is not seen in the third season. But, it is being claimed that Divyendu Sharma may re-enter as Munna Bhaiya in the fourth season. Now how this happens and whether it will happen or not, it will be known only in the upcoming season.

Amit was seen in this role in Mirzapur

Let us tell you, Amit Sial may not have played the character of ‘Munna Bhaiya’ in Mirzapur, but he appeared in a different character in the same series. He played the character of SP ‘Ram Sharan Maurya’ in the series, to whom the case of Mirzapur is handed over. Amit was seen in the first season of the series. Talking about the work front, Amit Sial has appeared in many films and web series including ‘Maharani’, ‘Titli’, ‘Jamtara’, ‘Swatantra Veer Savarkar’.