Shekar Kapur on Mr. India 2 and more…

Some weeks back we brought to you information about the remake of Mr. India supposedly titled Mr. India 2. Now here’s what ace film-maker Shekar Kapur, who directed the original Mr. India has to say about the film.

On being asked whether Shekar Kapoor would be interested in directing the remake of the film. Shekar Kapur had a straight answer.

“No, no, I have done it, I am not a robot. Am an imaginative human being like all of you. Why would I do it. Why would I spent year and half doing something that I have already done?” says filmmaker Shekhar Kapur.

And what is Kapur’s biggest concern about the sequel? “Who will play Mogambo? I can’t see anybody else being Mogambo,” he says.

Kapur may be averse to doing a sequel of Mr India, but that has not stopped him from directing the sequel to his international directorial debut Elizabeth.

Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen, is in post-production now and will have its worldwide release soon. In the meantime, Kapur is busy raising money for his long-delayed film Paani.

 

Paani is a film about a city of 20 million inhabitants which runs dry of water. The water wars have begun between those that still have water and those that do not. Water has now become a weapon of political, social and economic exploitation.

“Do you have $25 million? I know people who have and the day they give it to me, I will make the movie. It’s a very expensive film. It’s going to be India’s crouching tiger,” says Kapur.

“It will make $300-400 million worldwide. But I don’t want to raise the money from the studio. They will give it to me; any studio in the world will give it to me. But I want the  money from here, I want it from what they keep calling Indian corporate,” he adds.