Shekhar Kapur recalls shooting Sridevi’s scene with cockroach in Mr India, got the insect ‘drunk’ by pouring rum: ‘How to get it to act?’

Shekhar also recalled another anecdote from the film’s making where he recalled telling Amrish Puri, who played Mogambo, to act like he was doing Shakespeare for kids who had never been exposed to the works of the playwright. “When Amrish asked ‘how do you want me to play it?’ I said ‘play it like you are doing Shakespeare’. He was shocked. I said ‘you are doing Shakespeare for kids who have never even heard of Shakespeare, and village kids who have never come to the city.’ He did it that way,” he said.

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Boney Kapoor, the producer of Mr India, recently shared that the sequel of the film is in the works. He shared with Bollywood Hungama in a recent interview that he is in conversation with a foreign studio as they are interested in making a sequel. In 2020, Ali Abbas Zafar had announced that he was directing the sequel of Mr India but there were no follow up announcements about the project.