June 24 (AZINS) Notable actor Amrish Puri has some iconic roles in his kitty. The actor is widely remembered as either the Babuji from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge or Mogambo from Shekhar Kapur's Mr. India. The dialogue 'Mogambo Khush Hua' is still one of the most-used dialogues today.

However not many would know but Amrish Puri was not the original choice for the role of Mogambo. The late actor's friend Anupam Kher recently revealed that Shekhar Kapur had offered the role of Mogambo to Kher before it landed in Amrish Puri's lap.

"Amrish Puriji was a really good friend of mine. It feels really sad to talk about your friends who are no more in this world. He was a remarkable actor," Anupam Kher told IANS on Amrish Puri's 75th birth anniversary on Saturday, June 22.

Anupam Kher was promoting his upcoming film One Day: Justice Delivered, where he happened to make the revelation. "In ‘Mr. India', Mogambo's role was offered to me before him but after one or two months, makers of that film replaced me with Amrish Puriji," said Kher.

"When you are dropped from a film then generally an actor feels bad, but when I watched ‘Mr. India' and saw Amrishji's work as Mogambo then, I thought that makers of the film took the right decision by casting Amrishji in their film," he added.

Do you think Anupam Kher could be as iconic as Amrish Puri if he was offered the role of Mogambo?