Bhubaneswar, Feb. 11 -- Actor Anil Kapoor debuted in 1979 with Hamare Tumhare in a small role and later starred as the lead in a Telugu movie Vamsa Vruksham. Though he starred in several other movies, as the lead, his first Hindi movie was Woh Saat Din. He went on to work in several Hindi movies and many of those were commercially successful. However, 1987's Mr India brought him stardom.

Notably, the script of Mr India was initially written by Salim-Javed with Amitabh Bachchan in mind. However, Amitabh, the biggest superstar of those days, turned down the offer. As per reports, he felt that as the audience wouldn't see him and could only hear his voice, the movie wouldn't work for him. After the Sholay actor declined the offer, it was pi...