Anupam Kher has revealed that he almost played iconic villain Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur’s 1987 directorial ‘Mr India’, a role that went to late actor Amrish Puri.
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Google on Saturday celebrated Puri’s life and legacy on his 87th birthday.
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“Amrish Puriji was a really good friend of mine. It feels really sad to talk about your friends who are no more in this world. He was a remarkable actor,” Kher said.
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“In ‘Mr India’, Mogambo’s role was offered to me before him but after one or two months, makers of that film replaced me with Amrish Puriji,” said Kher.
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“When you are dropped from a film then generally an actor feels bad, but when I watched ‘Mr India’ and saw Amrishji’s work as Mogambo then, I thought that makers of the film took the right decision by casting Amrishji in their film,” he added.
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Kher is currently busy with his autobiography and says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who directed him in the 1984 film ‘Saaransh’, features prominently in it.
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“An extraordinary story of an ordinary man who proves that if you can dream it you can do it! Anupam Kher,” Bhatt had tweeted.
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Replying to it, Kher wrote, “Thank you mere pyare [dear] @MaheshNBhatt Saab [sir]. You have played a very important role in my autobiography. #LessonsLifeTaughtMeUnknowingly.”
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Talking about his autobiography, Kher tweeted on June 22, “It won’t be an exaggeration if I say I started writing my autobiography at the age of 10. Since then I have lived my ups and downs and also captured them. Time to share my life with you all in a book form. It is ready for you to pre-order it.”