Click to play videoMumbai: Bollywood filmmakers seem to have been bitten by the 'remake and sequel' bug. And the latest in the league of remakes is the immensely popular Anil Kapoor-Sridevi starrer Mr India.
But while Anil along with his producer-brother Boney Kapoor is busy finalising the script for Mr India's return, the man who made the original says he'll never do it.
"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.
"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.
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