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Akshay Kumar studied martial arts in Bangkok before becoming an actor.
Akshay Kumar
Bollywood
Aamir Khan's favorite sport is Chess and Rubik's cube
Aamir 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
Dil Chahta Hai was written keeping in mind Akshaye Khanna, Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan. When Hrithik turned down the role, it went to Abhishek Bachchan. However, Aamir Khan was finally roped in. Also Sonali Kulkarni’s role as Pooja was initially offered to Isha Koppikar.
Aamir Khan
Abhishek Bachchan
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan
Dev Anand was highest paid Hindi actor from 1957-1964 and and the 2nd highest paid Hindi actor from 1965-1975.
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
Hrithik Roshan fought hard to overcome a stammering problem.
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan
Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was the first Hindi movie to have two intervals.
Bollywood
Both Sridevi and Juhi Chawla's daughters name is Jhanvi.
Bollywood
Juhi Chawla
Mohammad Rafi, who loved watching boxing, requested the organisers on his tour to Chicago to get him an appointment with Mohammad Ali. Otherwise a busy man, Ali proceeded to Rafi’s hotel room when he found out that the legendary Indian singer wanted to meet him.
Bollywood
Devika Rani was the first actress with a degree in film-making.
Bollywood
Salman Khan's real name is Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Hrithik Roshan was awarded the "National Citizen's Award" on August 25 2001 in Delhi. The award recognises excellence in various activities affecting national life.
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan
Being a Muslim man Shahrukh Khan married to a Hindu woman, he and his wife combine both religious backgrounds into their children's education.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
Jeetendra total film appearances were in 226 films and 121 of them were box office hits and 102 were flops.
Bollywood
Jeetendra
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
Sholay won only one award even after its mega success at the box office.
Bollywood
Sholay 3D
Dilwale Dulhaniya Lejayenge has won the most number of filmfare awards till date.
Bollywood
Raj kapoor worked as assistant director on Dilip Saab's first film- Jwar Bhata' before making his debut in 'Aag'.
Bollywood
Waheeda Rahman played both mother and lover to Amitabh Bachchan. She played the love interest of Big B in ‘Adalat’ (1976) and mother in ‘Trishul’ (1978).
Bollywood
Dev Anand picked up his movie titles and story lines from newspaper headlines and stories.
Bollywood
Bhanu Athaiya was the First Indian to Get an Oscar. She won the award for the Best Costume Designer for Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi in 1982.
Bollywood
Dilip Kumar has won the most awards as the Best Actor with 8 awards spanning over 3 decades.
Bollywood
Salman Khan was initially offered the role of Devdas, which was later on enacted by his rival Shahrukh Khan.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Shahrukh Khan
The popular United Kingdom Magazine "Guardian" said Lagaan is a must-see movie especially for the British.
Bollywood
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
Geet Gaaya Pattharonne was Jeetendra first hit, but that didn't fetch him offers as a lead hero. It was Farz released in 1967, his 4th film appearance and 3rd as the male lead, which made him a known face.
Bollywood
Jeetendra
Dharmendra did 13 B grade Action films with Hemant Birje in 1991-2003.
Bollywood
Dharmendra
Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen adopted a baby girl. Her name is Renee and she lives with Sushmita.
Bollywood
Bappi Lahiri composed for films starring Jeetendra beginning from Himmatwala. Together Bappi and Jeetendra did 20 films between 1983 to 1988. Of these 20, 16 were silver jubilee hits and 4 were flops.
Ajay Devgan
Bollywood
Himmatwala
Jeetendra’s first film was ‘Navrang’ (1959), where he played Sandhya’s body double.
Bollywood
Jeetendra
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
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
Rishi Kapoor is petrified of flying. He cannot board a plane till he is drunk out of his wits.
Bollywood
Rishi Kapoor
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
Jeetendra career's first blockbuster, without being a remake of a Tamil Film, was Caravan in 1970.
Bollywood
Jeetendra
Amitabh Bachchan holds an art degree from Sherwood College, Nainital.
Amitabh Bachchan
Bollywood
Farhan Akhtar is exactly one day older than actor Hrithik Roshan, who's a close friend in personal life.
Bollywood
Farhan Akhtar
Shah Rukh Khan runs a production company "Dreamz Unlimited" with actress, friend, co-star Juhi Chawla and director, friend Aziz Mirza.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Father ran a transport company and his mother was a magistrate.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
Anil Kapoor shaved-off his mustache, for the first time, while filming Lamhe (1991). He has also done so for Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate (1998) and Salaam-E-Ishq (2007).
Anil Kapoor
Bollywood
Shamita Shetty is deeply into Sports and Body training and holds a Diploma in Fashion Designing.
Bollywood
Nana Patekar actually stayed in military camp for several months to prepare for his movie Prahaar.
Bollywood
Nana Patekar
Salman was offered Baazigar (1993) by Abbas-Mustan, but turned down the film after the makers refused to accommodate changes suggested by his father Salim Khan. The role went to Shah Rukh Khan.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Raj Kapoor had promised Feroz Khan that if Rajendra Kumar declined Sangam he would sign him for the film.
Bollywood
The 'Khalnayak' song 'Choli Ke Peeche' was protested by as many as 42 political parties.
Bollywood
Madhuri Dixit
During escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Dilip Kumar had agreed to accept an award from Pakistan, and was threatened by workers of an extreme right-wing political party in Bombay, India. He actually wrote to the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, for protection. The threat has now subsided with improved relations between India and Pakistan.
Bollywood
Rekha was a crazy fan of Mumtaz when she entered the industry
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan launched his perfume "SK" with the French perfumers and Jeannes Arthes.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
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
Aamir Khan is such a perfectionist! IN the movie Ghulam he did a dangerous stunt where he has to run against a speeding train ALL BY HIMSELF. He almost got killed during that scene
Aamir Khan
Bollywood
Salman Khan did his first playback singing for the film 'Hello Brother'.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Salman Khan suffers from trigeminal neuralgia, a facial nerve disorder commonly known as the suicide disease.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Raj Kapor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy.
Bollywood
Kajol's Favorite ring is an OM studded with diamonds which she wears both On and Off screen.
Bollywood
During the making of 'Sholay' Dharmendra paid the light boys to make mistakes during shots, so that he could embrace Hema Malini again and again.
Amitabh Bachchan
Bollywood
Dharmendra
Hema Malini
Sholay 3D
Shah Rukh Khan always agreed to star in Aditya Chopra's films without looking at the script first.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
Salman Khan was swimming champion in his school days and was tipped to represent India at international events.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Hrithik Roshan had got 30000 (!) marriage proposals on Valentine's day 2000.
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan
Salman Khan arrested by police under the charge of having connection with underworld mafia. He was also questioned about Bharat S. Shah, a producer of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001) since Shah has also been linked with underworld mafia.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
The longest film in the world is also a Bollywood film. ‘LOC: Kargil’ is 4 hours and 25 minutes long and if you plan to catch this war saga, we recommend you’re sitting comfortably.
Bollywood
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
Salman Khan made his debut in 1988 in 'Biwi Ho To Aisi' as Farouq Sheikh's Younger Brother.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
On the sets of Amar Akbar Antony Rishi Kapoor smeared kajal on Neetu Singh's face just before the shoot of a song. Poor girl had to redo her makeup.
Bollywood
Rishi Kapoor
In the early stages of her career, Karisma Kapoor was mortally terrified of photo-sessions.
Bollywood
Karisma Kapoor
The song ‘Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyon’ in the film by the same name is the longest Hindi film song. The length of this iconic song is 20 minutes and the song is featured in three installments in the film.
Amitabh Bachchan
Jeetendra
Shahrukh Khan son, Aryan Khan, voice of Tez Lajawaab (Dash), character for Hindi dubbed version of Disney's animated film, The Incredibles (Hum Hain Lajawaab).
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
The first motion picture in India was ‘The Wrestlers’ screened in 1899 a portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar.
Bollywood
Indra Sabha with 71 songs is the film with most number of songs.The film was made in 1932 by madan Theatres.
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
Ashok Kumar was a lab assistant in Bombay Talkies before he became an actor in 1936.
Bollywood
Fardeen Khan was arrested on May 5th 2001 in connection with Cocaine Seizure.
Bollywood
Shekhar Kapur's 'Mr. India' was originally written for Amitabh Bachchan but Big B refused to do the 'invisible' role
Bollywood
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
was once rejected for a TV serial dubbing job before she became famous.
Bollywood
In Ishqiya, Preity Zinta was the makers original choice. However, Vidya Balan took over the female lead.
Bollywood
Preity Zinta
Vidya Balan
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
'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
Madhuri's Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, which is one the biggest Blockbuster films to be have ever made in Bollywood not only broke records in India, but also in abroad. In UK the movie grossed 1 million pounds and created a record which hasn't been broken.
Bollywood
Madhuri Dixit
Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
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
The producers of Ghajini were not keen on casting Asin opposite Aamir Khan as she is a South Indian actress. However, Aamir was so much impressed with Asin’s performance in the original Tamil version that he insisted on her playing the lead. It is said that he personally requested Asin to play the lead in the Hindi version. Priyanka Chopra was the original choice.
Aamir Khan
Bollywood
At the time of marriage, Dilip Kumar was 44 and Saira Banu was 22.
Bollywood
Award winning singer Sonu Nigam played the younger avatar of Sunny Deol in the film 'Betaab'.
Bollywood
Sunny Deol
Lata Mangeshkar's song ‘Ae Malik Tere Bande Hum’ from ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’ (1957) which was an original composition by Vasant Desai, was adapted by a Pakistani school as the school anthem.
Bollywood
Raj Kapoor's nickname for Shashi Kapoor was "Taxi".
Bollywood
Raj Thackeray wanted to make a film with Amitabh Bachchan in 2005.
Amitabh Bachchan
Sunil Dutt initially used to be an RJ for Radio Ceylon and wanted to interview his favorite actress Nargis, but it had to be cancelled when he could not say a single word to her. Later, when he worked with her in ‘Mother India’ (1957), they fell in love and got married.
Bollywood
Dharmendra
Salman Khan has been wearing Feroza (turquoise) stone bracelet for the past 15 years.
Bollywood
Salman Khan
Aamir Khan once shaved off his hair because a girl rejected him.
Aamir Khan
Bollywood
Lagaan is the first Bollywood film in which maximum number of foreigners have worked.
Aamir Khan
Shah Rukh Khan studied in St. Columba's school, New Delhi, where he was awarded the 'Sword of Honor', essentially the award for best student.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan
Dev Anand held the record for the most solo hero Hindi films starting from 1957 - when Dev already had 40 solo hero films and by 1985 he had 90 solo hero films, which was the maximum by a Hindi hero.
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
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’.
Anil Kapoor
Ila Arun
Salman Khan was offered Saif Ali Khan's role in 'Kal Ho Na Ho'
Bollywood
Saif Ali Khan
Salman Khan
Akshay Kumar was awarded the highest Japanese honour of “Katana” and a sixth degree Black Belt in Kuyukai Gojuryu Karate.
Akshay Kumar
Bollywood
When Sridevi was only 13, she played Rajnikanth’s stepmom in a Tamil film called ‘Moondru Mudichu’.
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan was catapulted overnight to instant superstardom with debut hit film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000).
Bollywood
Hrithik Roshan
Shahrukh Khan 3rd child was born via a surrogate mother on 27 May, 2013.
Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan