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Mr. India (1987)

Name: Mr. India (1987)
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Released: 1987
Duration: 2 h 51 min 46 s

मिस्टर इंडिया

Hindi film

by Shekhar Kapur 1987G General

action Science Fiction

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Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Produced by: Boney Kapoor
Screenplay by: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
Story by: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
Dialogue by: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
Music by: Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma
Lyrics by: Javed Akhtar
Singers: Alisha Chinoy, Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kishore Kumar, Shabbir Kumar
Cinematography: Baba Azmi
Edited by: Gurudutt Shirali, Waman Bhonsle
Production design: Bijon Das Gupta
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sharat Saxena, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Bob Christo, Yunus Parvez, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Deo
Written by: Salim–Javed

Description

Arun Verma is a big-hearted violinist who shelters a crowd of orphans in his rented house, struggling to feed them while a feisty journalist, Seema, moves in as his tenant. When he inherits a gadget invented by his late father that makes the wearer invisible, Arun finds a way to fight back against Mogambo, a cartoonish warlord who hoards weapons and food and dreams of ruling the country. Mr. India is one of the most beloved Hindi films of the 1980s, a family adventure mixing science fiction, comedy and song. It was the last screenplay written by Salim–Javed as a team. Amrish Puri's Mogambo and his catchphrase Mogambo Khush Hua became legendary, and Sridevi's Hawa Hawai and her Charlie Chaplin comedy sequence are among her most famous scenes.

The songs

Zindagi Ki Yahi Reet Hai — Kavita Krishnamurthy, Chorus · words Javed Akhtar
Karte Hain Hum Pyaar Mr India Se — Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kishore Kumar · music Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma · words Javed Akhtar
Na Mange Sona Chandi — Anuradha Paudwal, Shabbir Kumar, Chorus · music Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma · words Javed Akhtar
Hawa Hawaii — Kavita Krishnamurthy, Chorus · music Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma · words Javed Akhtar
Kate Nahin Kat Te, I Love You I Love You — Alisha Chinoy, Kishore Kumar · music Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma · words Javed Akhtar

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Taken from

Jasoosi Dunya (Ibn-e-Safi) — not in this catalogue yet
Mogambo was built out of Ibn-e-Safi's Urdu pulp detective novels, which supplied a great deal of the Hindi thriller's furniture.

Rebuilt from

Brahmachari (1968)
Brahmachari's premise - a penniless man keeping a houseful of orphans he cannot afford and will not give up - is recorded as the inspiration for Mr. India nineteen years later. Not a remake; the same situation, rebuilt with an invisibility watch and Mogambo in it.

The same people, elsewhere

Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri as Mogambo, built out of Ibn-e-Safi's Urdu pulp novels and played at a pitch nobody else would have risked. Filmfare ranked him the second-most iconic villain in Indian cinema, and 'Mogambo khush hua' is still used in conversation to mean 'I approve'.
Same photographer and actor: Anokha Bandhan (1982)
Baba Azmi photographed both.
Same script writer and singer: Betaab (1983)
Mr. India is the last script Salim-Javed wrote together; Betaab is among the first Javed Akhtar wrote alone after the partnership broke up.
Same art director and actor: Damini (1993)
Bijon Das Gupta designed both.
Same script writer and singer: Deewaar (1975)
Salim Khan wrote the screenplay of both; Javed Akhtar wrote the story and the dialogue of them - 12 years apart.
Same script writer and lyricist: Duniya (1984)
Javed Akhtar wrote the lyrics, the screenplay and the story of both; Waman Bhonsle cut them.
Same music director and singer: Ghulami (1985)
Lakshmikanth Shantaram Kudalkar wrote the music of both.
Same photographer and editor: Gurudev (1993)
Baba Azmi photographed both; Waman Bhonsle cut them.
Same actor: Hero (1983)
Waman Bhonsle and Gurudutt Shirali cut both.
Insaan (1982)
Waman Bhosle and Gurudutt Shirali cut both - the editing pair most Hindi action and thriller pictures of the period went through.
Same lyricist and actor: Jaadugar (1989)
Javed Akhtar wrote the lyrics of both.
Same actor: Meri Jung (1985)
Amrish Puri as the villain of both, two years apart - a lawyer who hangs an innocent man, and then Mogambo. Javed Akhtar wrote this alone and Mr. India with Salim Khan, their last together.
Same photographer and actor: Pukar (2000)
Baba Azmi photographed both - 13 years apart.
Same script writer and lyricist: Saagar (1985)
Javed Akhtar wrote the lyrics, the screenplay, the story and the dialogue of both; Bijon Das Gupta designed them.
Same script writer and singer: Shakti (1982)
Javed Akhtar wrote the story of both.
Same lyricist and singer: Silsila (1981)
Javed Akhtar wrote the lyrics of both.
Toofan (1989)
Salim Khan wrote Toofan without Javed Akhtar; Mr. India two years earlier is the last script they wrote together. Peter Pereira worked on both.
Waman Bhonsle
One of eighteen films he cut with Gurudutt Shirali between 1972 and 1993 - and the hardest of them, because the lead is invisible for much of it.
Yakeen (1969)
Javed Akhtar wrote Yakeen's dialogue in 1969, four years before Zanjeer; Mr. India in 1987 is the last script he and Salim Khan wrote together. Eighteen years, both ends held here.

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