Mukesh Tiwari.
Whenever there is talk of villains in Bollywood, the names of artists like Amrish Puri, Amjad Khan, Gulshan Grover, Ashutosh Rana and Pran are taken. These artists not only intimidated the audience by becoming a villain, left such an impression on their hearts that even today they are known for some of their characters. In the 70s, Amjad Khan became Gabbar, while Amrish Puri scared the audience by becoming Mogambo. However, in the ‘China Gate’ released in 1998, a villain was also seen, which alone filled 14 heroes dusty and filled the audience with fear. We are talking about the villain ‘Jagira’ of the film, which was played by Mukesh Tiwari.
An army of stars at China Gate
The China Gate, released in 1998, was not 2-4, but 14 stars were seen together, including Om Puri, Nasiruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Mamta Kulkarni, Urmila Matondkar, Girish Karnad, Anupam Kher. However, in this film directed by director Rajkumar Santoshi, all the incurable looted a robber i.e. Jagira. ‘I like my mind, I ate the dog and ate’ Mukesh Tiwari’s dialogue which still lives on people’s tongue.
Gabbar collided
In this film, the way Mukesh Tiwari brought the character of Jagira alive, the audience remembered Sholay’s Gabbar. The special thing is that this was Mukesh Tiwari’s debut film, but no one can say that this was his first appearance on the screen. The ‘China Gate’ released in theaters on 27 November 1998 was an action film, including Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Danny Denjongpa, Sameer Soni, Mukesh Tiwari, Mamta Kulkarni, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Jagdeep, Viju Khote, Anjan Srivastava, Paresh Rawal, Anupam Kher and Urmil Matadkar like Urmal Matadar and Urmil Were. The song ‘Chamma Chamma’ of this film was also quite popular.
Hero became a cricketer and became a hero
Mukesh Tiwari played the role of the robber Jagira at the China Gate so much that he took a bath for 50 days for this. He neither shared nor cut hair to look like a robber. For this, he used to sprinkle perfume on him for this, so he used to sprinkle perfume. Born in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Mukesh Tiwari used to play cricket on college time. He played cricket from Under-12 to Under-19, but luck pulled him to Bollywood and he became a cricketer and became an actor.
