Mohan Kapur never had the audacity to dream of going to Hollywood'.
Yet, he has become a household name across the globe, thanks to his recent stint in Ms. Marvel.
Indian television fans know Kapur from back in the day when he hosted a game show called Saanp Seedi.
Kapur has come a long way from doing films like Beqabu and Aangarey to his latest, Sadak 2.
"I went on to do several films with Vikram Bhatt, like Raaz, Haunted 3D and Creature, laughingly pointing out to him that in all of them I was the go-to person who had a solution to all evils, be it a mantra or a silver bullet."
Let's reel back to Saanp Seedi that helped me get over my snake phobia and start playing Snakes and Ladders...
Oh, I even have a phobia of snakes.
So how did the game show happen?
I was in advertising then, and had left Lintas to join another ad agency, Ambience, whose MD, Ashok Kurien, had tied up with Subhash Chandra's Essel Vision to start the first private satellite channel for South Asia, Zee TV.
One day, I bumped into Adi Pocha, who had been my associate in Lintas, in the office.
He had come to meet Ashok for Zee TV, and was surprised that despite working with Ambience, I did not know about the channel.
He presented five concepts to Ashok on behalf of UTV for the launch of Zee TV, one of them being Saanp Seedi.
It was the only one he was going to direct and he auditioned me for it.
This story is from the August 2022 edition of GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE.
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