We Bet You Didn't Know These 12 Facts About Bollywood's OG Sci-Fi And Superhero Movie Mr India
If you too, as a child, believed in the magic of red light, had at least once shouted "Calendar khaana do! Calendar khaana do" on the dinner table, and had teased anyone by saying, "Mogambo Khush Hua!", then you, my friend, are also a big fan of the OG Indian science fiction and superhero movie Mr India.?
No matter how big a fan of the film you are, and how many times you have watched the movie, we are sure you still don't know most of these below mentioned behind the scene facts about the Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri and Sridevi-starrer movie.?
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1. Can you even imagine someone else saying Mogambo Khush Hua?apart from Amrish Puri? The actor made the role iconic. But he wasn't the first choice for the role. Amitabh Bachchan was approached to play the character, but because he had entered politics for a brief time, he declined the offer.?
2. Not only Amitabh Bachchan but even Anupam Kher was also being considered for the role. However, director Shekhar Kapoor wanted to cast someone who could look intimidating and thus Amrish Puri essayed the role.?
3.?Anil Kapoor had worn the same pair of clothes and hat for the entire movie. Producer of the film, Boney Kapoor had earlier told IANS, "Anil had to be content with just one outfit which he had bought himself from Chor Bazaar."
4. Aftaab Shivdasani essays the role of one of the?orphaned kids who were taken care of by Anil Kapoor's character in the superhit film. This was Aftaab's debut film.??
5. Similarly, Indian choreographer Ahmed Khan is also one of the orphaned kids in the movie.?
6. Song Hawa Hawai was inspired by?Nag King Cole's Brazillian Love Song.?
7. Shekhar Kapur wasn't happy with the line - 'Mogambo Kush Hua'. Javed Akhtar had to convince him that it will become a hit. He even predicted that people would say this line when Kapil Dev would hit a six. Shekhar witnessed this after the release of the movie as a fan flashed a banner that read Mogambo Kush Hua during a match exactly after Kapil Dev had hit a six.?
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8. Shot on a budget of Rs 3.80 crore which was massive at that time, Mr India's shooting lasted 350 days.?
9. Rajesh Khanna was offered to play Mr India but he rejected the role for reasons best known to him. In fact, Kishore Kumar sang for the film because he thought Rajesh Khanna was in it.?
10. This was the last movie of the writing duo Salim-Javed. Although they had split in the 1980s, for this film, they came together for one last time.??
11. Ashok Kumar, who played the role of Professor Sinha, had done a movie called Mr X in 1957. He played an invisible man in it. This was also the first Hindi movie to be made with an invisible man as the theme.??
12. Sridevi had high fever when shot for the song Kaate Nahi Kat Te, but she was so dedicated that she didn't back off.?
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