100 Filmfare Days: 66- Mr India
Mr India
Year: 1987
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Producer: Boney Kapoor
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri
Music: Laxmikant-Pyarelal
If you thought Shekhar Kapur's Mr India was inspired by HG Wells, The Invisible Man think again. It is inspired more by a 1957 film called Mr X where Ashok Kumar plays an invisible man. Rajesh Khanna refused the script and Amitabh Bachchan, who was also a prospect, was concentrating only on politics at the time. So Kapur did some last minute changes and cast Anil Kapoor. Amrish Puri's phenomenal popularity after doing Steven Spielberg's Indian Jones and The Temple Of Doom made him replace Anupam Kher as Mogambo. In the process of that serendipity Indian cinema got its most iconic sci-fi film yet. Not just that, Mr India managed more than flattering box-office numbers beating all those big-ticket potboilers with Dharmendra and Mithun Chakraborty. Sridevi's va va voom in Kaate Nahi Katte and over all joie de vivre, gave Mr. India its sunshine charm. Critics even dubbed the film as Miss India.
DID YOU KNOW?
1. When Prof. Sinha is first talking to his students in the class, Boney's Law of Time-Space Continuum is visible in the blackboard behind him. Boney Kapoor is the producer of the movie.
2. The film had originally been written for Rajesh Khanna in the lead role. Kishore Kumar sang the songs thinking it would be picturised on Rajesh Khanna and even Laxmikant Pyarelal were under the same impression.
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