"When I read the script, I wanted to be a part of it as an actor... it was so exciting," Shah Rukh Khan said at a promotional event of Ittefaq. "I think a better actor than me has essayed the role now, Akshaye Khanna, more befitting for the part. Unfortunately at that time I had begun two films and that's why I couldn't be part of it," he added. Ittefaq releases this Friday.