When it comes to comedy scenes, how can we forget a scene when Sridevi’s character gets scared by a cockroach and starts screaming?

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, superhero kind of fight sequences, drama and humour. When it comes to comedy scenes, how can we forget a scene when Sridevi’s character gets scared by a cockroach and starts screaming? In an interview, Shekhar Kapur made a startling revelation that they got the cockroach drunk for that particular scene!

In an interview with Daily Post, the Mr India director revealed, “Me and Baba Azmi, we were thinking how to get the cockroach to act? We thought, let’s get a bottle of Old Monk rum, and we poured a little bit in front of the cockroach. We thought it would drink and act (laughs), we actually felt like the cockroach had gotten drunk… Maybe the cockroach liked the old monk?”

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This is one of the weirdest and most fascinating trivias we have learned about Mr India! Who would’ve thought that even a cockroach would show so much “dedication” to getting its scene with Sridevi right? Weare sure filming that scene must have been one of the fondest memories for the entire team.