Salman Khan to become new Mogambo

Mogambo, the man who wanted to blow up India in director Shekhar Kapoor’s classic Mr. India, is set to make a comeback in the sequel to the film.

While on the sets of ‘Wanted,’ Salman Khan expressed his interest in working in the film to producer Boney Kapoor who was contemplating making a sequel. Boney immediately contacted his scriptwriter Anees Bazmi to write a role for Salman Khan in the film. And so Khan is now set to step into the legendary filmi villain Mogambo’s (immortalized by the late Amrish Puri) shoes, reported The Times of India. This will be Khan’s first ever negative role.

Over the years the character of Mogambo has developed a cult following that owes much of it’s popularity to dialogues such as ‘Mogambo khush hua’ (Mogambo is pleased) and to the sheer ambition of his evil plans.

Speaking about the role, a source close to Khan said, 'Salman loved the idea and is quite open-minded about playing a negative role. Salman will be playing a terrorist who wants to rule over India and the story will be about how Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and their gang try to free the country with the help of another invention made by Anil Kapoor.'

Sci-fi flick Mr. India was released in 1987 and has become one of the most successful films and a popular classic of Hindi cinema. The film marked another feather in the cap of scriptwriting duo Salim-Javed, who have written the scripts of other classics as such as Sholay and Deewar.