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Hrithik Roshan was an assistant to his father during the making of Koyla.

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
Dilwale Dulhaniya Lejayenge has won the most number of filmfare awards till date.

Bollywood
Fans of Amitabh Bachchan built him a temple in Calcutta. The temple has his movies and a lot of info about him.

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
In the film ‘Heroine’ Kareena Kapoor wore over 130 different dresses provided from top designers from all over the world. It has been reported that Kareena’s wardrobe for the film was one of the most expensive out of all the Bollywood movies ever created.

Hrithik Roshan Kareena Kapoor
Imran Khan is not an Indian citizen, but he is actually a US citizen.

Imran Khan
Raj Kapoor was superstitious and went off drinking as well as eating non-vegetarian food before the release of ‘Satyam Shivan Sundaram’ (1978).

Bollywood
Shah Rukh Khan debut film was Dil Aashna Hai but due to the delay in the release of the film Deewana was considered as his debut film.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
In Sholay, both Amit Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar were more keen to play the dacoit Gabbar Singh which eventually was played by newcomer Amjad Khan.

Amitabh Bachchan Amjad Khan Bollywood Sanjeev Kumar Sholay 3D
For a country that is obsessed with films, there are still very few cinema screens. India has fewer than 13,000 screens compared with nearly 40,000 screens in the US.

Bollywood
Raj Kapoor had promised Feroz Khan that if Rajendra Kumar declined Sangam he would sign him for the film.

Bollywood
Rani Mukherjee While in school at the age of 14, Rani did a cameo role in her father's Bengali film Biyar Phool (1992).

Rani Mukerji
Anurag Basu wanted Katrina Kaif originally to narrate the story in ‘Barfi!’ instead of Ileana D’Cruz. But the director had to go with the latter when Katrina refused due to unknown reasons.

Bollywood Ileana D Cruz
Akshay Kumar is son of producer Aruna Bhatia.

Akshay Kumar Bollywood
Jeetendra career's first blockbuster, without being a remake of a Tamil Film, was Caravan in 1970.

Bollywood Jeetendra
Amitabh Bachchan is so punctual that many a times he used to open the gates of Filmistan Studios himself for he used to reach the place before the watchman or gatekeeper.

Amitabh Bachchan
Salman was voted 7th best-looking man in the world by People Magazine.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Fardeen Khan was arrested on May 5th 2001 in connection with Cocaine Seizure.

Bollywood
Devika Rani was the first actress with a degree in film-making.

Bollywood
Rohit Dhawan had suggested the title ‘Main Tera Hero’ for Varun Dhawan..

Varun Dhawan
Amitabh Bachchan He worked in Calcutta for the shipping firm Shaw & Wallace as executive and as a freight broker for Bird and Co. It was in Calcutta that he bought a second-hand Fiat as his first car.

Amitabh Bachchan
Shahrukh Khan personal bodyguard's name is Yasmin Khan. When his bodyguard got married, Shahrukh gifted him a flat that is located beside his residence Mannat.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan in his early days as a struggling actor he never used his father's name and influence like many other heroes with relatives in the industry. He used to visit producers on his own and audition for roles.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Salman Khan's real name is Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Jaya Bachchan hates to carry handbags, so all her salwar-kameez, formal or informal, all of them, have two pockets on the sides to hold her essentials like keys, combs etc.

Bollywood
Shahrukh was turned down the Quiz Master's (Prem Kapoor) role in Slumdog Millionaire and the role went to Anil Kapoor.

Anil Kapoor Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Raj Kapoor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy

Bollywood
Amitabh Bachchan holds an art degree from Sherwood College, Nainital.

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
In his youth, actor Dharmendra was such a big fan of actress Suraiya that he walked miles to watch her film ‘Dillagi’ (1949) over 40 times.

Dharmendra
Actor Emraan Hashmi used the screen name Farhaan Hashmi for a few months in the early part of his career. He went back to using Emraan Hashmi a short while later.

Bollywood Emraan Hashmi
Kaho Naa.. Pyar Hai’ was added to the Guinness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. The movie won a total of 92 awards.

Hrithik Roshan Ileana D Cruz
Shilpa Shetty Did you know Shilpa is scared to drive her car? Yes, the actress doesn't know how to drive a car and always has a driver along with her where ever she goes.

Bollywood
Because the cinema industry was still considered a low profession in the 40s, music director Naushad was introduced by his parents to his bride as a tailor. And ironically, the music that played in his ‘baraat’ was from ‘Rattan’ (1944) – that had been composed by him.

Bollywood
Katrina Kaif visits Sidhivinayak Temple, Mount Mary Church and Ajmer Sharif Dargah before the release of her every film.

Katrina Kaif
At the time of marriage, Dilip Kumar was 44 and Saira Banu was 22.

Bollywood
Shah Rukh Khan runs a production company "Dreamz Unlimited" with actress, friend, co-star Juhi Chawla and director, friend Aziz Mirza.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan uses a mulmul cloth to wipe his nose. You will never find him with a handkerchief or tissue!

Bollywood Salman Khan
Dilip Kumar was offered a lead role in the international project ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) by director David Lean. However for reasons unknown, the actor declined the offer. The role subsequently went to Egyptian actor Omar Sharif.

Bollywood
When Mithun and Sridevi were involved, Mithun had given Sri a pet name. He used to call her Pepsi. This was before the soft drink came to India.

Bollywood Mithun Chakraborty
In two completely unconnected movies, Irrfan Khan speaks of 'Richard Parker': the tiger in Life of Pi (2012) and Spiderman's dad in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Bollywood Irrfan Khan
Akshay Kumar won Best Villain award for Ajnabee (2001) as it was his first ever award since his career started in 1991.

Akshay Kumar Bollywood
Salman Khan is the only actor to have had six back to back 100 Crore plus films. Dabangg (2010), Ready (2011), Bodyguard (2011), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Dabangg 2 (2012) and Jai Ho (2014). His film Wanted (2009) grossed around 100 Crore plus at the Indian Box Office and even did great business at the International Box Office.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Aishwarya's first ever commercial was for Camlin pencils while in 9th grade.

Bollywood
Akshay Kumar was awarded the highest Japanese honour of “Katana” and a sixth degree Black Belt in Kuyukai Gojuryu Karate.

Akshay Kumar Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan 3rd child was born via a surrogate mother on 27 May, 2013.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Anil Kapoor is the director of Asian Academy of film and television film city noida which conducts film degree programs and is rated as top 10 in the world

Anil Kapoor Bollywood
Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts.

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
Akshay Kumar is superstitious. He will never write anything on a page unless he first heads it with an ‘Om’.

Akshay Kumar
Deepika Padukone made her first runway appearance in 2003, at just Seventeen Magazine.

Deepika Padukone
Dharm Hema were paired romantically in lead role in 31 of the 35 films they did together and 20 were hits and 15 were flops.

Bollywood Dharmendra Hema Malini
In the early stages of her career, Karisma Kapoor was mortally terrified of photo-sessions.

Bollywood Karisma Kapoor
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was once rejected for a TV serial dubbing job before she became famous.

Bollywood
Indra Sabha with 71 songs is the film with most number of songs.The film was made in 1932 by madan Theatres.

Bollywood
In most of Salman's films his character name has been Prem and more recently Radhe and Chulbul Pandey has now been synonymous with him.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Salman Khan was initially offered the role of Devdas, which was later on enacted by his rival Shahrukh Khan.

Bollywood Salman Khan Shahrukh Khan
Jeetendra and Rajesh Khanna went to the same school and college - St.Sebastain Goan School and Kishanchand Chellaram College. But unlike Khanna, who actively participated in inter-college competitions and won many awards, Jeetendra never participated in any drama competitions during his college days.

Bollywood Jeetendra Rajesh Khanna
Salman studied acting at actress Daisy Irani's acting institute along with his friends Sajid Khan and Chunky Pandey.

Bollywood Chunky Pandey Salman Khan
Kajol's Favorite ring is an OM studded with diamonds which she wears both On and Off screen.

Bollywood
Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

Bollywood Katrina Kaif
Model turned actress Malaika Arora is Salman Khan sister-in-law. Actor turned director Atul Agnihotri is his brother-in-law.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Rekha was a crazy fan of Mumtaz when she entered the industry

Bollywood
Shamita Shetty is deeply into Sports and Body training and holds a Diploma in Fashion Designing.

Bollywood
Salman Khan was swimming champion in his school days and was tipped to represent India at international events.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Hrithik Roshan was catapulted overnight to instant superstardom with debut hit film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000).

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
Shahrukh Khan Father Meer Mohammed Taj Khan died of Cancer in 1981 and his Mother Lateef Fatima Khan died of complications in Diabetes in 1991.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Father ran a transport company and his mother was a magistrate.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
'Barsaat' was given an 'A' certificate by the censors because actress Nargis was not wearing a dupatta in the film.

Bollywood
Arjun Rampal has acted with Nicole Kidman in ad for Schweppes Drink, produced by Sir Ridley Scott (Gladiator Director) and directed by Shekhar Kapoor.

Arjun Rampal Bollywood
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge has become a milestone, which is yet to be achieved by anyone even after a decade. It has completed 700 weeks of undeterred run at Mumbai’s Minnerva theatre a couple of years back. It was released nationwide on October 20, 1995.

Bollywood
Shekhar Kapur's 'Mr. India' was originally written for Amitabh Bachchan but Big B refused to do the 'invisible' role

Bollywood
SRK joined Barry John's theatre group in New Delhi and learned acting from him, Barry John also taught acting to Manoj Bajpayee in his theatre group.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta Besides her acting, Preity Zinta has also written a series of columns for BBC News Online of South Asia.

Preity Zinta
Rakhee favorite snach is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

Bollywood
Raj Kapor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy.

Bollywood
Hrithik Has twoo thumbs on his right hand that are grown together.

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
Amir Khan's wife Reena and Shah Rukh Khan's Wife Gauri share the same birthday, October 8th.

Aamir Khan Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Emraan Hashmi's grandmother actress Poornima (Zanjeer) was Mahesh Bhatt's mother (Shirin Mohammed Ali) biological sister.

Bollywood Emraan Hashmi
Nana Patekar actually stayed in military camp for several months to prepare for his movie Prahaar.

Bollywood Nana Patekar
Guru Dutt committed suicide in 1964 by an overdoes of sleeping tablets.

Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Amitabh is a great fan of Brazilian soccer players. His favorite however is Rudd Gullit. He also has a fondness for golf.

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
Farhan did something very unconventional in Bollywood by singing all his songs himself for the movie Rock On!! (2008) as the movie featured him as a rockstar.

Bollywood Farhan Akhtar
Hrithik Roshan loves collecting photographs. He would never travel anywhere without his personal camera even as a child. He has a vast collection photographs and special scrapbooks marking each occasion.

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
The 'Khalnayak' song 'Choli Ke Peeche' was protested by as many as 42 political parties.

Bollywood Madhuri Dixit
In Don 2, Shah Rukh Khan (Don) is seen riding on a long motorway aboard a bridge, a motorbike, with a license plate reading “Don 3″. Hence, there may be a possibility of a sequel.

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
During the shoot of Gangs of Wasseypur, in Banaras, the assistant director Sohil Shah, died in an accident, when he fell off a bridge while in a jeep. Sohil suffered an instant hemorrhage when he hit his ear against a metal rod.

Bollywood
Ashok Kumar was a lab assistant in Bombay Talkies before he became an actor in 1936.

Bollywood
The 1957 film Musafir had one Dilip Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar where sings in Dilips own voice....Lagi nahin chhote rama kahe jiya jai. The film was critically acclaimed.

Bollywood
Kareena Kapoor : Kareena's name was derived from the book Anna Karenina, which her mother read while she was pregnant with her. But her family and close friends call her Bebo.

Kareena Kapoor
John Abraham voice was dubbed by another actor in his first film Jism (2003).

Bollywood John Abraham
Salman Khan has been wearing Feroza (turquoise) stone bracelet for the past 15 years.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Saif Ali Khan was the original choice for Shahrukh Khan’s role in ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’. Even Tom Cruise was considered for the role of Raj Malhotra (SRK’s role in the film)

Bollywood Saif Ali Khan Shahrukh Khan
Rockstar’ was shot in reverse order, with the climax being shot first. Reason: The makers did not want to disturb the continuity of Ranbir Kapoor’s hairstyle.

Bollywood Ranbir Kapoor
Mahima Chaudhary has a shoe fetish. She spends most of her free time shopping for shoes. During one such shopping stint, she actually picked up a dozen pairs of the same variety in every colour available

Bollywood
Akshay Kumar Though nominated seven times at the Filmfare awards, he's won just twice - Best actor in a comic and negative role for Garam Masala and Ajnabee, respectively.

Akshay Kumar
Salman Khan's all time favorite actors in bollywood are Megastars Dharmendra and Shatrughan Sinha.

Bollywood Dharmendra Salman Khan
Actor Amjad Khan was almost dropped from ‘Sholay’ (1975) because scriptwriter Javed Akhtar found his voice weak for Gabbar Singh's role. Danny Denzongpa was approached for that role initially.

Bollywood
Priyanka Chopra is the only Indian in the USA to have been selected at the state level for the National Opus Honor Choir, extensive charity work back in India and the USA, and joined the CAF and CII in their literacy program and is their ambassador.

Priyanka Chopra
Govinda had got 2007 - Most Stylish Comeback Award at the MTV Lycra Style Awards.

Bollywood Govinda
Both Sridevi and Juhi Chawla's daughters name is Jhanvi.

Bollywood Juhi Chawla
Jeetendra’s first film was ‘Navrang’ (1959), where he played Sandhya’s body double.

Bollywood Jeetendra

Hrithik Roshan was an assistant to his father during the making of Koyla.

Dilwale Dulhaniya Lejayenge has won the most number of filmfare awards till date.

Fans of Amitabh Bachchan built him a temple in Calcutta. The temple has his movies and a lot of info about him.

In the film ‘Heroine’ Kareena Kapoor wore over 130 different dresses provided from top designers from all over the world. It has been reported that Kareena’s wardrobe for the film was one of the most expensive out of all the Bollywood movies ever created.

Imran Khan is not an Indian citizen, but he is actually a US citizen.

Raj Kapoor was superstitious and went off drinking as well as eating non-vegetarian food before the release of ‘Satyam Shivan Sundaram’ (1978).

Shah Rukh Khan debut film was Dil Aashna Hai but due to the delay in the release of the film Deewana was considered as his debut film.

In Sholay, both Amit Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar were more keen to play the dacoit Gabbar Singh which eventually was played by newcomer Amjad Khan.

For a country that is obsessed with films, there are still very few cinema screens. India has fewer than 13,000 screens compared with nearly 40,000 screens in the US.

Raj Kapoor had promised Feroz Khan that if Rajendra Kumar declined Sangam he would sign him for the film.

Rani Mukherjee While in school at the age of 14, Rani did a cameo role in her father's Bengali film Biyar Phool (1992).

Anurag Basu wanted Katrina Kaif originally to narrate the story in ‘Barfi!’ instead of Ileana D’Cruz. But the director had to go with the latter when Katrina refused due to unknown reasons.

Akshay Kumar is son of producer Aruna Bhatia.

Jeetendra career's first blockbuster, without being a remake of a Tamil Film, was Caravan in 1970.

Amitabh Bachchan is so punctual that many a times he used to open the gates of Filmistan Studios himself for he used to reach the place before the watchman or gatekeeper.

Salman was voted 7th best-looking man in the world by People Magazine.

Fardeen Khan was arrested on May 5th 2001 in connection with Cocaine Seizure.

Devika Rani was the first actress with a degree in film-making.

Rohit Dhawan had suggested the title ‘Main Tera Hero’ for Varun Dhawan..

Amitabh Bachchan He worked in Calcutta for the shipping firm Shaw & Wallace as executive and as a freight broker for Bird and Co. It was in Calcutta that he bought a second-hand Fiat as his first car.

Shahrukh Khan personal bodyguard's name is Yasmin Khan. When his bodyguard got married, Shahrukh gifted him a flat that is located beside his residence Mannat.

Salman Khan in his early days as a struggling actor he never used his father's name and influence like many other heroes with relatives in the industry. He used to visit producers on his own and audition for roles.

Salman Khan's real name is Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan.

Jaya Bachchan hates to carry handbags, so all her salwar-kameez, formal or informal, all of them, have two pockets on the sides to hold her essentials like keys, combs etc.

Shahrukh was turned down the Quiz Master's (Prem Kapoor) role in Slumdog Millionaire and the role went to Anil Kapoor.

Raj Kapoor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy

Amitabh Bachchan holds an art degree from Sherwood College, Nainital.

In his youth, actor Dharmendra was such a big fan of actress Suraiya that he walked miles to watch her film ‘Dillagi’ (1949) over 40 times.

Actor Emraan Hashmi used the screen name Farhaan Hashmi for a few months in the early part of his career. He went back to using Emraan Hashmi a short while later.

Kaho Naa.. Pyar Hai’ was added to the Guinness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. The movie won a total of 92 awards.

Shilpa Shetty Did you know Shilpa is scared to drive her car? Yes, the actress doesn't know how to drive a car and always has a driver along with her where ever she goes.

Because the cinema industry was still considered a low profession in the 40s, music director Naushad was introduced by his parents to his bride as a tailor. And ironically, the music that played in his ‘baraat’ was from ‘Rattan’ (1944) – that had been composed by him.

Katrina Kaif visits Sidhivinayak Temple, Mount Mary Church and Ajmer Sharif Dargah before the release of her every film.

At the time of marriage, Dilip Kumar was 44 and Saira Banu was 22.

Shah Rukh Khan runs a production company "Dreamz Unlimited" with actress, friend, co-star Juhi Chawla and director, friend Aziz Mirza.

Salman Khan uses a mulmul cloth to wipe his nose. You will never find him with a handkerchief or tissue!

Dilip Kumar was offered a lead role in the international project ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) by director David Lean. However for reasons unknown, the actor declined the offer. The role subsequently went to Egyptian actor Omar Sharif.

When Mithun and Sridevi were involved, Mithun had given Sri a pet name. He used to call her Pepsi. This was before the soft drink came to India.

In two completely unconnected movies, Irrfan Khan speaks of 'Richard Parker': the tiger in Life of Pi (2012) and Spiderman's dad in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Akshay Kumar won Best Villain award for Ajnabee (2001) as it was his first ever award since his career started in 1991.

Aishwarya's first ever commercial was for Camlin pencils while in 9th grade.

Akshay Kumar was awarded the highest Japanese honour of “Katana” and a sixth degree Black Belt in Kuyukai Gojuryu Karate.

Shahrukh Khan 3rd child was born via a surrogate mother on 27 May, 2013.

Anil Kapoor is the director of Asian Academy of film and television film city noida which conducts film degree programs and is rated as top 10 in the world

Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts.

Akshay Kumar is superstitious. He will never write anything on a page unless he first heads it with an ‘Om’.

Deepika Padukone made her first runway appearance in 2003, at just Seventeen Magazine.

Dharm Hema were paired romantically in lead role in 31 of the 35 films they did together and 20 were hits and 15 were flops.

In the early stages of her career, Karisma Kapoor was mortally terrified of photo-sessions.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was once rejected for a TV serial dubbing job before she became famous.

Indra Sabha with 71 songs is the film with most number of songs.The film was made in 1932 by madan Theatres.

In most of Salman's films his character name has been Prem and more recently Radhe and Chulbul Pandey has now been synonymous with him.

Salman Khan was initially offered the role of Devdas, which was later on enacted by his rival Shahrukh Khan.

Salman studied acting at actress Daisy Irani's acting institute along with his friends Sajid Khan and Chunky Pandey.

Kajol's Favorite ring is an OM studded with diamonds which she wears both On and Off screen.

Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

Model turned actress Malaika Arora is Salman Khan sister-in-law. Actor turned director Atul Agnihotri is his brother-in-law.

Rekha was a crazy fan of Mumtaz when she entered the industry

Shamita Shetty is deeply into Sports and Body training and holds a Diploma in Fashion Designing.

Salman Khan was swimming champion in his school days and was tipped to represent India at international events.

Hrithik Roshan was catapulted overnight to instant superstardom with debut hit film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000).

Shahrukh Khan Father Meer Mohammed Taj Khan died of Cancer in 1981 and his Mother Lateef Fatima Khan died of complications in Diabetes in 1991.

Shahrukh Father ran a transport company and his mother was a magistrate.

'Barsaat' was given an 'A' certificate by the censors because actress Nargis was not wearing a dupatta in the film.

Arjun Rampal has acted with Nicole Kidman in ad for Schweppes Drink, produced by Sir Ridley Scott (Gladiator Director) and directed by Shekhar Kapoor.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge has become a milestone, which is yet to be achieved by anyone even after a decade. It has completed 700 weeks of undeterred run at Mumbai’s Minnerva theatre a couple of years back. It was released nationwide on October 20, 1995.

Shekhar Kapur's 'Mr. India' was originally written for Amitabh Bachchan but Big B refused to do the 'invisible' role

SRK joined Barry John's theatre group in New Delhi and learned acting from him, Barry John also taught acting to Manoj Bajpayee in his theatre group.

Preity Zinta Besides her acting, Preity Zinta has also written a series of columns for BBC News Online of South Asia.

Rakhee favorite snach is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

Raj Kapor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy.

Hrithik Has twoo thumbs on his right hand that are grown together.

Amir Khan's wife Reena and Shah Rukh Khan's Wife Gauri share the same birthday, October 8th.

Emraan Hashmi's grandmother actress Poornima (Zanjeer) was Mahesh Bhatt's mother (Shirin Mohammed Ali) biological sister.

Nana Patekar actually stayed in military camp for several months to prepare for his movie Prahaar.

Guru Dutt committed suicide in 1964 by an overdoes of sleeping tablets.

Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

Amitabh is a great fan of Brazilian soccer players. His favorite however is Rudd Gullit. He also has a fondness for golf.

Farhan did something very unconventional in Bollywood by singing all his songs himself for the movie Rock On!! (2008) as the movie featured him as a rockstar.

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