Shekhar Kapur on Sridevi’s scene in Mr India ( Photo Credit – IMDb; Instagram )
Before Shaktimaan, Krrish and G One from Ra One, there was Mr India – everyone’s favourite desi superhero. Directed by Shekhar Kapur, the film stars Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor, Ramesh Deo, Ajit Vachani, Ashkor Kumar, Bob Christo, Satish Kaushik and many more. The 1987 movie is considered one of the best Hindi films of all time.
It’s a story about a man named Arun (Anil Kapoor) who looks after several orphan kids. One day, Arun comes across a watch that makes him invisible. That’s how he becomes Mr India and fights the bad guys in the movie. The story also includes Seema, played by Sridevi, who lives as a paying guest in Arun’s giant mansion. Arun and Seema’s love story also makes the plot entertaining.
Mr India is loved for many reasons: romance,...
Before Shaktimaan, Krrish and G One from Ra One, there was Mr India – everyone’s favourite desi superhero. Directed by Shekhar Kapur, the film stars Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor, Ramesh Deo, Ajit Vachani, Ashkor Kumar, Bob Christo, Satish Kaushik and many more. The 1987 movie is considered one of the best Hindi films of all time.
It’s a story about a man named Arun (Anil Kapoor) who looks after several orphan kids. One day, Arun comes across a watch that makes him invisible. That’s how he becomes Mr India and fights the bad guys in the movie. The story also includes Seema, played by Sridevi, who lives as a paying guest in Arun’s giant mansion. Arun and Seema’s love story also makes the plot entertaining.
Mr India is loved for many reasons: romance,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
What do you get when you put the master screenwriters of populist and allegoric masala films and the urbane and intellectual director of Masoom to combine their talents to create India’s most beloved superhero? Mr. India is the end product that transcends all masala boundaries to become the zaniest and looniest comedies of the 80s. Salim-Javed made sure that their last collaborative effort pulled out all the stops to become a classic. After 1942: A Love Story, Mr. India was the second most worn down VHS of my childhood with weekly screenings after school.
There is a wonderful anarchic spirit to this film with Arun Verma (Anil Kapoor) the sunny violinist whose sprawling house on Juhu Beach houses 12 orphans and a cook named Calendar (Satish Kaushik). Their household lives hand to mouth each month, when Arun’s cheery nature fails to placate the shop owners with his growing debts,...
There is a wonderful anarchic spirit to this film with Arun Verma (Anil Kapoor) the sunny violinist whose sprawling house on Juhu Beach houses 12 orphans and a cook named Calendar (Satish Kaushik). Their household lives hand to mouth each month, when Arun’s cheery nature fails to placate the shop owners with his growing debts,...
- 9/14/2013
- by Rumnique Nannar
- Bollyspice
Author: Bob Christo (Foreword by Tom Alter)
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Pages: 280
Price: Rs 399/-
Isbn: 9780143414629
I distinctly remember that fight sequence from the movie Kaalia where everybody is standing in line while food is being distributed and Michael (actor Bob Christo) decides to spoil the decorum and breaks the queue. While one of his crippled inmates gathers courage and decides to retaliate against this brawny white guy, Michael shouts back, “Hum jahaan khade hote hain line waheen se shuroo hotee hai”(The line always starts behind me). Immediately after that all the other prisoners in the queue go and stand behind Michael.
The most I knew about Bob Christo then was he was an actor from Australia renowned within the Indian Film Industry as the “bad man” of Indian Cinema who played either the role of collaborator, hostile prisoner or British Officer.
The septuagenarian Robert John Christo whom the...
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Pages: 280
Price: Rs 399/-
Isbn: 9780143414629
I distinctly remember that fight sequence from the movie Kaalia where everybody is standing in line while food is being distributed and Michael (actor Bob Christo) decides to spoil the decorum and breaks the queue. While one of his crippled inmates gathers courage and decides to retaliate against this brawny white guy, Michael shouts back, “Hum jahaan khade hote hain line waheen se shuroo hotee hai”(The line always starts behind me). Immediately after that all the other prisoners in the queue go and stand behind Michael.
The most I knew about Bob Christo then was he was an actor from Australia renowned within the Indian Film Industry as the “bad man” of Indian Cinema who played either the role of collaborator, hostile prisoner or British Officer.
The septuagenarian Robert John Christo whom the...
- 6/27/2011
- by Niilesh A Raje
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, June 3: He was the bald foreign baddie who would get beaten to pulp by Bollywood heroes. Bob Christo's life was perhaps as daring as his stunts on screen - he once cut off a vulture's head and drank its blood in a fit of rage on home turf in Australia. In a memoir published posthumously, he turns the pages of his life.
'There were happy times,.
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- 6/3/2011
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Bollywood actor of Australian origin, Bob Christo, who acted in numerous movies playing the white-skinned baddie for over two decades, passed away here on Sunday. He was in his seventies. The actor died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", reports said. Robert John Christo, popularly known as Bob Christo, was an engineer but went on to become an actor in Bollywood, playing the quintessential White villain of Bollywood. His bald face and sinewy physique soon made...
- 3/21/2011
- Bollywood Trade
Bob Christo has died after a short illness, aged 70. The veteran star, who gained fame playing negative roles in Hindi cinema during the eighties and nineties, suffered heart failure on Sunday, the Times of India reports. "He was hospitalised after a massive heart attack on Saturday afternoon. He passed away today (Sunday)," said family friend and business partner Khaleem Pasha. The Australian-born actor, who appeared in (more)...
- 3/21/2011
- by By Steven Baker
- Digital Spy
Bollywood actor of Australian origin, Bob Christo, who acted in numerous movies playing the white-skinned baddie for over two decades, passed away here on Sunday. He was in his seventies. The actor died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", reports said. Robert John Christo, popularly known as Bob Christo, was an engineer but went on to become an actor in Bollywood, playing the quintessential White villain of Bollywood. His bald face and sinewy physique soon made...
- 3/21/2011
- GlamSham
It's been a sad week for Bollywood, as two veteran actors have set for heavenly abode. While Navin Nischol passed away last week, Bob Christo (70) passed away in Bangalore on Sunday afternoon. He was hospitalized after a massive heart attack on Saturday afternoon. After having debuted with Abdullah, Bob went onto create and carve a niche place for himself in Bollywood; most of his roles were that of a villain's henchman and evil British officer in period films. Not many know that this man was a qualified civil engineer. The actor of Australian origin went on to act in over 200 movies, which included films like Mard, Qurbani, Mr. India, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and Gumraah, to name a few. Ironically, the actor's biography titled 'Flashback: My Times in Bollywood and Beyond' was to be released by Akshay Kumar in June. Bollywood Hungama prays for the departed man's soul to rest in eternal peace.
- 3/21/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
It's been a sad week for Bollywood, as two veteran actors have set for heavenly abode. While Navin Nischol passed away last week, Bob Christo (70) passed away in Bangalore on Sunday afternoon. He was hospitalized after a massive heart attack on Saturday afternoon. After having debuted with Abdullah, Bob went onto create and carve a niche place for himself in Bollywood; most of his roles were that of a villain's henchman and evil British officer in period films. Not many know that this man was a qualified civil engineer. The actor of Australian origin went on to act in over 200 movies, which included films like Mard, Qurbani, Mr. India, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and Gumraah, to name a few. Ironically, the actor's biography titled 'Flashback: My Times in Bollywood and Beyond' was to be released by Akshay Kumar in June. Bollywood Hungama prays for the departed man's soul to rest in eternal peace.
- 3/21/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood actor Bob Christo, best known for his roles as a villain, died on Sunday evening.The 72-year-old actor, of Australian origin, died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve", or cardiac rupture in simple terms, at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, sources in the hospital told Pti.Christo was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he complained of chest pain, and it turned out that he had a heart attack. The doctors performed angioplasty and sent procedure on him but his condition continued to be critical. One of the arteries had 90 per cent block. Sources said the ...
- 3/21/2011
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Bollywood popular villain of 80’s and 90’s Bob Cristo of Australian origin died in Bangalore yesterday afternoon. He was 72. He shifted his base to Bangalore several years ago and acted in over 200 films. When Bob complained of chest pain, he was immediately taken to Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research. There the doctors performed an angioplasty but there was no improvement in his condition. Finally, he died. He came to India to meet Parveen Babi and finally entered into films. Bob debuted with Sanjay Khan’s Abdullah in 1980. He acted in films like Mr India, Qurbani, Gumrah and Agneepath and ma...
- 3/21/2011
- Bollywoodmantra.com
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