Amrish Puri, who appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as the antagonist Mola Ram, was once described by the filmmaker as his ‘favourite villain, the best the world has ever produced and ever will
Casting director Dolly Thakore sent stills of him from the horror film Gehrayee to Steven Spielberg, but he seemed to be disinterested in the part. He wrote in his autobiography The Act of Life that American casting agents came to India to meet with him, and instead of auditioning, he asked them to watch him perform on the sets of a film. To his surprise, they came.
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