BOLLYWOOD FACT’S

BY
B.HARIKA

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• Actress Amisha Patel's grandfather
Rajni patel was the first sheriff of
Bombay.

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• Hrithik Roshan loves collecting
photographs. He would never travel
anywhere without his personal camera.
He has a vast collection photographs
and special scrapbooks marking each
occasion.

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• Hindi film actor Jagdish Raj is in the
Guiness Book of World Records for
playing the role of a police inspector in
144 films.

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• The Aamir Khan - Ayesha Jhulka film
'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar' is inspired
from the Hollywood flick 'Breaking
Away'.

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• Before 'Dulhe Raja', Govinda and
Raveena were penciled in as lead pairs
for four other films, which did not take
off

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• The film 'Bandhan' was dying in the
cans for three years because the
producers had run out of cash. VENUS
records pumped in money and got life
out of it.

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• At one point of time, actor Mithun
chakraborty used to run around with
his gold medal, the National Award he
had won for his performance in his very
first film, 'Mrigaya' and trooped from
studio to studio, from office to office,
from filmmaker to filmmaker, looking
for work.

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• During one trip to Bombay as a
student, R D Burman raised objections
to his father's compositions in 'Jaal', a
movie based in Goa. He found that the
song based a Rabindra Sangeet was
not suited to the locale

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• According to the director Manmohan
Desai himself, the lost and found
blockbuster 'Amar Akbar Anthony was
absolute 'rubbish'

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• A person named Asad Bhopali got the
Best lyricist award at the Filmfare for
Dil Deewana in 'Maine Pyar Kiya'. Very
few people have heard of him

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• The much-hyped marriage between
Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and
Twinkle Khanna was conducted
according to the Arya Samaj rules.

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• The chartbuster song in Subhash
Ghai's 'Ram Lakhan', My name is
Lakhan was recorded with only 72
Rhythm instruments and no vocal or
string instrument was used in its
composition.

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• Rani Mukherjee replaced Twinkle in
'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', Mahima in 'Hadh
Kar Di Apne' and 'Chalo Ishq Ladayen',
and Pooja Bhatt in 'Ghulam'

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• The only film in which Dilip Kumar and
Raj Kumar acted together apart from
'Saudagar' was 'Paigham'.

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• It was in Dev Anand's debut film 'Hum
Ek Hai' in which Guru Dutt got his first
break as a choreographer and an
assistant director.

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• Sulochana, Bina Rai and Madhubala all
played the role of Anarkali. For
authenticity's sake, Aamir Khan, who is
known to be a perfectionist, got his
ears pierced so he could wear earrings.

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• 'Neecha Nagar' directed by Chetan
Anand won the Grand Prix at the
Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

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• Before 'Dulhe Raja', Govinda and
Raveena were penciled in as lead pairs
for four other films, which did not take
off.

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• When Rajesh Khanna was the reigning
superstar, a textbook prescribed by
Bombay University contained an essay
titled 'The Charisma of Rajesh Khanna'.

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• Choreographer Saroj Khan was very
upset for her choreography for Tabu's
dance number Rang De in 'Thakshak'
went absolutely unnoticed at all award
ceremonies.

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• After Ketan Mehta's 'Oh Darling! Yeh
Hai India' Ranjit Barot gets to compose
music for a full film in the form of
Aditya Bhattacharya's 'Avatar' starring
Lucky Ali and Sophiya Haque.

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• Actress Jaya Prada was the first choice
for the title role of Harmesh Malhotra's
'Nagina'

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• Rekha earned the rare distinction of
being awarded the famous UP award
for the best Kathak dancer in Hindi
films by the King of Kathak, Pandit
Lachchu Maharaj.

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• Zayed Khan's role in 'Main Hoon Na'
was earlier offered to Abhishek
Bachchan, which in turn was first
offered to Hrithik Roshan. But both had
problems with dates.

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• During the making of 'Kabhi Khushi
Kabhi Gham', Karan Johar had to
temper Hrithik's energetic dancing to
suit the film and kept telling Kareena to
concentrate on emoting

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• The English song in the film 'Pardesh',
'My first day in America' was written by
singer Hema Sardesai and was
composed by Subhash Ghai and Tabun
Sutradhar

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• Writer turned director Anurag Kashyap
was credited in the titles of Sanjay
Gupta's flop flick 'Jung' (starring
Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff), which
was actually written by his brother
Abhinav.

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• Satyajit Ray was so impressed with
Amitabh Bachchan that he decided to
use his voice as commentary in
'Shatranj Ke Khiladi' since he did not
find any suitable role for him.

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• Bobby Deol's first brush with film
acting came very early, when he was
only seven years old. He played
Dharmendra junior in Manmohan
Desai's 'Dharam Veer'.

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• Sanjay Leela Bhansali had written the
script of 'Khamoshi 'with Amitabh
Bachchan in mind.

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• The 'Karz' song Om Shanti Om became
a rage and is supposed to be the first
Hindi song to be played in Discotheque
setting a trend thereafter

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• Rinke Khanna was supposed to do the
role of Malik's ladylove in 'Company'
but finally Ram Gopal Verma chose to
go with Manisha Koirala for the small
but crucial role.

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• The whole script of 'Tum Bin' based on
a stark visual director Anubhav Sinha
saw years back of a person lying dead
on the road and the person's mobile is
ringing.

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• The opening bars of the film 'Parinda'
were inspired from the composition
Fanfare for the common man.

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 Sanjay Leela Bhansali had written the script of 'Khamoshi 'with Amitabh Bachchan in mind.
 

• Sanjay Leela Bhansali had written the

script of 'Khamoshi 'with Amitabh
Bachchan in mind.
 

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• In the film 'Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat',
director Rajiv Rai had conceived an
author-backed role for his 'Gupt' hero
Bobby Deol but things didn't work out
and he didn't do the film

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• The only time in the history of any
Indian award, when the best female
playback singer award was shared was
between Ila Arun and Alka Yagnik for
'Choli Ke Peeche' in 'Khalnayak'.

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• Before making his debut in Kaho
Naa...Pyar Hai, Hrihik Roshan attended
the acting classes of Kishore Namit
Kapoor among others.

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