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Amrish Puri was not the first choice for Mogambo! Details below

Find out who was the original choice to feature for the character of Mogambo...

Amrish Puri

Bollywood has often offered the world many notable actors in the past, and the films are well-renowned for their actors across the world. Similarly, Amrish Puri has a place in everyone’s heart. Be it India or the rest of the world, even today the actor is known for his quintessential characters like Mola Ram from Indiana Jones’ Temple of Doom, Babuji from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge or Mogambo from Shekhar Kapur's Mr. India.

However, have you ever imagined if Amrish Puri would have never landed the role of Mogambo?

On the contrary, Amrish Puri was never the first choice for the notorious character. The late actor's friend Anupam Kher recently revealed that Shekhar Kapur had offered the role of Mogambo to him (Anupam Kher) before it landed in Amrish Puri's lap.

Talking about the same on Amrish Puri's 75th birth anniversary, Saturday, June 22, Anupam Kher said, "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."

Furthermore, he also revealed, "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."

He added,

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 the makers of the film took the right decision by casting Amrishji in their film.

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Do you think Anupam Kher could have pulled-off character’s elegance and turn it into a classic icon of negative roles?

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