<span class=normal>Casting of Mogambo: <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>If you go to see, Mr. India, back then, was considered to be a superhero film in a way. My first question to Shekhar was, The soul of Mr. India was Amrish Puri. He is the guy who made the film what it is today. Sridevi has always been good. There is no doubt about that. She has been dependable and reliable. But where do we get the soul of the film from? I am not going to detail how weve replaced Amrish Puri. Today there is no one of the stature of Amrish. I dont think any media knows how Shekhar explained the role of Mogambo to Amrish Puri. Shekhar told him, Imagine youre doing King Lear on the stage. Amrish caught it immediately back then as he had done a lot of theatre in Mumbai and Delhi. The whole flamboyance you see in Mogambo was that of a typical Shakespearean actor. So our worst nightmare was not writing Mr. India 2, but to decide who would bring back the same as Amrish Puri did in the sequel. The most obvious option now was to take a big hero today and make him a villain, which is not unusual in todays time. </span>