And since he was otherwise not in the film, Raj said we'll take Shakti Kapoor," says Aamir. In fact when it was reshot, by then Tinnu's dates were unavailable.
Initially, Gogo was to be played by Tinnu Anand, who Aamir says was "very good and fantastic" in that character. However, things did not work out and the dwarf character was cut out from the script and enter Crime Master Gogo. "And when you cut to a wide shot you realise he is standing on a table. I forget exactly what the scene was now but basically we meet him for the first time and he comes and stands in front of us, face to face. India', asks people to jump into boiling water and all. "(Zorambo was) kinda like Mogambo in 'Mr. He had a small part," Santoshi adds.īut when Zorambo did not work out, Santoshi gave it a twist, according to Aamir. But Crime Master Gogo was always a part of the script. But then we thought length-wise it is not working. "We had spoken to Amrish Puri and everything. It was like that," Santoshi is quoted saying by Roychoudhury in the book. Amar and Prem used to say, 'Kisi tarah khush karo yaar isko' (Do something to please him). Mogambo had white hair, Zorambo had black hair. "Mogambo used to wear black, Zorambo wore white.
A perennially upset character whose pet-phrase was 'Zorambo khush nahi hua' opposite to that of 'Mogambo khush hua'. Zorambo was the bumbling twin, who speaks and behaves the exact opposite. Rajkumar Santoshi, the director of the film, had originally planned to create a Bizarro-like character for Mogambo.īizarro, a fictional supervillain appearing in DC comic books, is the "mirror image" of Superman. Upon release in 1994, the comic caper had an underwhelming show at the box office but eventually achieved a cult status. The film starred Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Viju Khote and Shahzad Khan. The book, by Amborish Roychoudhury, also reveals how the iconic character of Crime Master Gogo, played by Shakti Kapoor, came into being.