Bollywood’s legendary playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy participated in the ABP Southern Rising Summit. Where he shared many interesting stories of his singing career during the ‘Magic of Music: The 90s Swag’ session. Meanwhile, the singer told that when she was singing Sridevi’s song ‘Hawa Hawai’, she had made a big mistake in the lyrics.

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Kavita Krishnamurthy has given many superhit songs to Hindi cinema. One of these is ‘Hawa Hawai’ from Anil Kapoor and Sridevi’s blockbuster film ‘Mr. India’. This song is one of the favorite songs of Sridevi’s fans. Even today this song is played a lot in weddings and parties. Regarding this, now singer Kavita Krishnamurthy said, ‘When she sang this song, she was not singing many solo songs. At that time she was dubbing many songs for Laxmikant Pyarelalji and Lata ji.

Singer was shocked to see Javed Akhtar and Boney Kapoor

The singer further said, ‘When she went to the rehearsal room for this song, she was shocked, because there many people including Javed Akhtar, Boney Kapoor were waiting for a new singer like her. When I reached there, Lakshmi ji told me to take out my paper and write, ‘Chihuahua’… Then she made me write Honolulu, Lulu… and so on.”

Singer made this big mistake in the song

After this the singer revealed his mistake in the song. He told, “When after six months, Lakshmi ji called me and told that he will keep this song in my voice only because it suits Sridevi ji, then I said, “Lakshmi ji, thank you very much, but I made a mistake in one word. I sang “Jinu jo tumne baat chuphai” instead of “Jaanu”, but Laxmikant said that it was right and it suited Sridevi. If you see Sridevi ji in the song, you will feel that Jinu is the right word..”

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Shekhar Kapur’s film ‘Mr. India’, released in 1987, is still one of the favorite films of the audience. While Anil Kapoor and Sridevi played the lead roles, Amrish Puri won everyone’s heart with his powerful acting as Mogambo. His villain character is still alive in people’s memories.

Today we are going to tell you the interesting story of Mr. India’s Mogambo costume making, which took 7 days to make and the designer also charged a huge fee.

How Mogambo’s iconic look was created
Mogambo’s iconic look in Mr. India was created by famous designer Madhav Agasti. Madhav has told the story behind this in detail in his book Stitching Stardom: For Icons, On and Offscreens. He wrote, the film’s director Shekhar Kapoor and producer Boney Kapoor have come to my shop. He has told me that he has to prepare the costume of such a villain, which will reflect the style of both a foreign dictator and a local landlord.

For this, we did a lot of research on foreign newspapers, magazines and film history books. Took out all the cuttings from them and then went and set the design of Mogambo’s costume. In this, a coat with golden monogram print on a black color coat, long frilled shirt and long boot type shoes were used. In this way Amrish Puri’s Mogambo costume was ready.

Mogambo costume ready in 7 days
It took 7 days to make it and I charged around Rs 25,000 as fees. But Boney Kapoor was very happy after seeing the sample of my workmanship and he gave me another Rs 10,000 as a reward. In this way, I got a total of Rs 35 thousand for making Mogambo’s costume.

This was Amrish Puri’s reaction
In his book, Madhav Agasti has further mentioned and told how Amrish Puri reacted when he saw Mogambo’s costume for the first time. He wrote- For the look test of Amrish Puri Sahab, he was made to wear the Mogambo costume made by me. He was looking very fabulous in that look and after wearing it, the only thing that came out of Puri Saheb’s mouth was – Mogambo was happy.

Filmmaker Boney Kapoor shared an old picture of his late wife Sridevi on Instagram and told that this is a moment before marriage. Boney Kapoor has shared a black and white picture on her Instagram account, in which Sridevi is sitting on the chair and posing for the camera. During this time she is also doing light smile.

In the caption of this photo, Boney Kapoor wrote, “Seeing me is smiling, this moment is before our marriage.”

Let us know that Boney Kapoor and Sridevi fell in love with each other during the shooting of the 1987 film Mr. India. Both of them got married in the year 1996. They had two daughters- Jahnavi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor.

However, Sridevi suddenly died in Dubai in 2018. He died due to drowning in the bathtub.

Boney Kapoor keeps sharing posts with Sridevi on his social media account. Recently, he posted some old pictures sharing an anecdote, when Raj Kapoor gave Sridevi the silver jubilee trophy of the film ‘Mr. India’.

Sharing a funny anecdote, Boney Kapoor told that Raj Kapoor wanted to take Sridevi in his film ‘Ghunghat Ke Pat Khol’.

Boney Kapoor wrote, “Raj Kapoor is giving Silver Jubilee Trophy of ‘Mr. India’ to Sridevi with great love. During this time he told Sridevi the story of his film ‘Ghunghat Ke Pat Khol’, in which he wanted to cast her. I remember, Raj Kapoor had mentioned it in a conversation before that.”

Boney further told that Raj Kapoor’s family used to call him ‘Cinderella’.

Boney Kapoor further told that Raj Kapoor was waiting for a long time to meet Sridevi, when he met Sridevi at the event, he told his wife Krishna Kapoor, “It was right to wait.”

Anil Kapoor and Sridevi’s film ‘Mr. India’ will be remembered by all of you. Apart from Anil Kapoor and Sridevi, Amrish Puri was also seen in the film. Who played the mercury of Villain ‘Mogambo’. In this role, Amrish Puri had killed such a life that even after becoming a villain, he was engulfed on the hearts of the people. But you will be surprised to know that this role was offered to Anupam Kher before Amrish Puri. Know then why the actor did not appear in the film.

Anupam Kher was offered ‘Mogambo’ role

Actually Anupam Kher is in discussion these days about his film ‘Tanvi The Great’. During this promotion, Anupam talked about ‘Mr. India’. The actor told in Raj Shamani’s podcast that, I had started shooting, but suddenly replaced me. I was very jealous when I was removed from Mr. India. I also felt very small as to why this happened to me ‘

,Mr. Indian, Anupam had started shooting for

However, after this, Anupam Kher praised Amrish Puri. The actor said that, when the film was released and I saw Amrish Puri in the role of Mogambo, then I understood that the decision of the makers was correct. Because he played this character well.

How much was it ,Mr. Indian‘Collection of’?

Anil Kapoor and Sridevi starrer film ‘Mr. India’ was released in the year 1987. Who earned that Chappharadad after its release. According to reports, the budget of the film was 3 crores and it earned more than 10 crores at the box office. Along with this, it was also made the second highest grossing film of that year.

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