When Amrish Puri Refused To Give An Audition For Steven Spielberg Hollywood Director

We have seen Several Indian actors have made their mark internationally, but one of the first Indian actors who appear in a globally successful Hollywood film was Amrish Puri, the one who played the villain Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg’s controversial 1984 film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But he initially turned the offer down.

When Amrish Puri Refused To Give An Audition For Steven Spielberg Hollywood Director

According to his autobiography, The Act of Life, Spielberg was denied permission to shoot Temple of Doom in India, and instead set up the film in Sri Lanka, Macau, and London. After expressing disinterest in the part, the actor reconsidered after casting director Dolly Thakore sent stills of him from the horror film Gehrayee to Spielberg.

But when the American Casting Agents came to Indian in order to meet him, the actor refused to give an audition, and instead of this he asked him to watch him performing on the set of his new film, Not only this he refused to read out a page with the English text, How does Spielberg know what language do I speak? He told to the casting agents that he knows me as an actor only.

However, Amrish Puri Eventually Agreed to the role, and also found the production very impressive. He called the Spielberg as “Very boyish” and unassuming kind of person, and apart from that he also praised the crew and sad, None of them had an ego problem or any reservation about my being an Indian. Unlike many of our actors in Indian Film, they have the expertise at all levels.

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But that film ran into the trouble in India, for its controversial Portrayal Of violent Cults, and even on that movie he was labeled as the “Anti-National”, about that he said, it was a chance for me to working with Spielberg for a lifetime, and He doesn’t regret it even for a moment, as he didn’t do anything anti-National, and it’s really foolish to take this so seriously and get worked up over it.

Years later, Spielberg said, “Amrish is my favorite villain. The best the world has ever produced and ever will.”