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Anil Kapoor was a child artiste in the shelved film Tu Paayal Main Geet starring Shashi Kapoor. He was playing the role of the young childhood Shashi Kapoor.

Anil Kapoor Bollywood
Aamir Khan's favorite sport is Chess and Rubik's cube

Aamir Khan
Ranbir Kapoor still takes Rs 1,500 pocket Money from his mom every week.

Ranbir Kapoor
Award winning singer Sonu Nigam played the younger avatar of Sunny Deol in the film 'Betaab'.

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

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

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

Katrina Kaif
‘Silsila’ (1981) is the only movie in which Shashi played an elder brother to Amitabh. In all the other movies starring the duo, Amitabh has essayed the role of the elder sibling. The films include hits like ‘Deewar’, ‘Suhaag’, ‘Do Aur Do Paanch’ and ‘Namak Halaal’.

Amitabh Bachchan
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
Dev Anand picked up his movie titles and story lines from newspaper headlines and stories.

Bollywood
Feroz Khan started a film titled Kasak in the 1980s. After recording a song he shelved the film. The song was later used in Yalgaar. The song E Mere Watan sung by Mohd Aziz and Nitin Mukesh..

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

Bollywood
Meena Kumari, Nargis, and Madhubala were all discovered as child artistes before they become actresses.

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

Bollywood Emraan Hashmi
Dharmendra Hema Malini were paired in lead roles romantically in 31 films but have worked in 35 films. Of them, had 20 hits.

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

Bollywood Salman Khan
Jeetendra total film appearances were in 226 films and 121 of them were box office hits and 102 were flops.

Bollywood Jeetendra
‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960) was a trilingual – with all scenes shot thrice in Hindi, Tamil and English. When the Tamil one flopped miserably, the English language one was aborted.

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

Bollywood
Shah Rukh Khan always agreed to star in Aditya Chopra's films without looking at the script first.

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

Bollywood Juhi Chawla
Jeetendra got his first major break when film-maker Shantaram cast him as the hero in Geet Gaaya Pattharonne (1964).

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

Preity Zinta
Jeetendra’s first film was ‘Navrang’ (1959), where he played Sandhya’s body double.

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

Bollywood Chunky Pandey Salman Khan
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
Sushmita Sen Did you know that former beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen keeps a python as a pet?

Bollywood
The film ‘Lagaan’ by Aamir Khan has the most number of British actors playing a significant role in the entire history of Bollywood cinema.

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

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Dharmendra’s fee when he debuted in 1960 in the movie ‘Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere’ was a meager 51 rupees.

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

Bollywood
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 the son-in-law of India and Hindi Film Industry's first ever Superstar, Rajesh Khanna and actress, Dimple Kapadia, as well as the brother-in-law of actress Rinke Khanna.

Akshay Kumar Bollywood
When Sridevi was only 13, she played Rajnikanth’s stepmom in a Tamil film called ‘Moondru Mudichu’.

Bollywood
Raj kapoor worked as assistant director on Dilip Saab's first film- Jwar Bhata' before making his debut in 'Aag'.

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

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
Anupam Kher awarded the "Special National Jury Award" and the "Actor of the Decade Award" (Millennium Honours) among others, but he also holds the record as the only actor in the industry to have won eight consecutive Filmfare awards.

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
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
The first motion picture in India was ‘The Wrestlers’ screened in 1899 a portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar.

Bollywood
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
Akshay Kumar is son of producer Aruna Bhatia.

Akshay Kumar Bollywood
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
On August 21, 1979 Dharmendra converted to Islam, changed his name to Dilawar Khan, got married to actress Hema Malini, as his first wife, Prakash Kaur, could not be divorced either as she was mother his 4 children and he had fallen in love with Hema Malini only from 1975 whereas had married Prakash Kaur in 1954. In accordance with the Hindu Marriage Act it is illegal for a Hindu to get re-married when his first wife is still alive. Two Congress party-members have launched law-suits against him under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code in this connection as he failed to make a declaration of his religion when he joined the Janata Party.

Bollywood Dharmendra
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
Hrithik Roshan had a stammering problem since childhood. In order to combat the problem, he took speech lessons and, today, he is one of the most eloquent Bollywood stars.

Hrithik Roshan
Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

Bollywood Katrina Kaif
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
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
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
Raj Thackeray wanted to make a film with Amitabh Bachchan in 2005.

Amitabh Bachchan
Aditya Chopra rejected 24 verses before approving the song 'Mere Khwaabon Mein Jo Aaye' for his debut film DDLJ.

Bollywood
Shahrukh Khan had Graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University and followed it up with a Masters Degree in Mass Communications (Film making) from Jamia Millia Islamia University, in New Delhi, but after a year Shah Rukh opted out as he had to make his acting career in Bollywood.

Bollywood Shahrukh 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
Dharmendra did 13 B grade Action films with Hemant Birje in 1991-2003.

Bollywood Dharmendra
Shahrukh Khan's first salary was Rs 50 which he earned by working as an usher at a Pankaj Udhas' concert in Delhi. He used the money to take the train to Agra and see the Taj Mahal.

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

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

Bollywood
Salman Khan likes to collect soaps. In his bathroom, there is a collection of all kinds of handmade and herbal soaps. His favourites are soaps made from natural fruit and vegetable extracts.

Bollywood Salman Khan
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
Salman Khan was offered Saif Ali Khan's role in 'Kal Ho Na Ho'

Bollywood Saif Ali Khan Salman Khan
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
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
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
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
Hukumat, Dharmendra 74th solo hero film, was highest grosser, at the box office in 1987.

Bollywood Dharmendra
Sholay won only one award even after its mega success at the box office.

Bollywood Sholay 3D
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
Salman Khan has been wearing Feroza (turquoise) stone bracelet for the past 15 years.

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

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

Bollywood
Parineeti Chopra was a nerd in her school days & stood first all over India in her 12th standard exams. For this, she was rewarded by the then President of India.

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

Bollywood
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
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
Hrithik Roshan had got 30000 (!) marriage proposals on Valentine's day 2000.

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

Bollywood Nana Patekar
Actor Annu Kapoor used his real name " Anil Kapoor" for his first film Adharshila. He later changed it to Annu Kapoor to avoid confusion with Anil Kapoor.

Bollywood
Anil Kapoor’s family lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage when they first moved to Mumbai. Later they shifted to a room in one of Mumbai’s middle-class suburbs.

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

Bollywood Dharmendra Salman Khan
Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was the first Hindi movie to have two intervals.

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

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

Bollywood Salman Khan
The popular United Kingdom Magazine "Guardian" said Lagaan is a must-see movie especially for the British.

Bollywood
Raj Kapoor's nickname for Shashi Kapoor was "Taxi".

Bollywood

Anil Kapoor was a child artiste in the shelved film Tu Paayal Main Geet starring Shashi Kapoor. He was playing the role of the young childhood Shashi Kapoor.

Aamir Khan's favorite sport is Chess and Rubik's cube

Ranbir Kapoor still takes Rs 1,500 pocket Money from his mom every week.

Award winning singer Sonu Nigam played the younger avatar of Sunny Deol in the film 'Betaab'.

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

Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

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

‘Silsila’ (1981) is the only movie in which Shashi played an elder brother to Amitabh. In all the other movies starring the duo, Amitabh has essayed the role of the elder sibling. The films include hits like ‘Deewar’, ‘Suhaag’, ‘Do Aur Do Paanch’ and ‘Namak Halaal’.

Being a Muslim man Shahrukh Khan married to a Hindu woman, he and his wife combine both religious backgrounds into their children's education.

Dev Anand picked up his movie titles and story lines from newspaper headlines and stories.

Feroz Khan started a film titled Kasak in the 1980s. After recording a song he shelved the film. The song was later used in Yalgaar. The song E Mere Watan sung by Mohd Aziz and Nitin Mukesh..

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

Meena Kumari, Nargis, and Madhubala were all discovered as child artistes before they become actresses.

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.

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

Dharmendra Hema Malini were paired in lead roles romantically in 31 films but have worked in 35 films. Of them, had 20 hits.

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.

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

Jeetendra total film appearances were in 226 films and 121 of them were box office hits and 102 were flops.

‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960) was a trilingual – with all scenes shot thrice in Hindi, Tamil and English. When the Tamil one flopped miserably, the English language one was aborted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Shah Rukh Khan always agreed to star in Aditya Chopra's films without looking at the script first.

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

Jeetendra got his first major break when film-maker Shantaram cast him as the hero in Geet Gaaya Pattharonne (1964).

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.

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

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

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

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.

Sushmita Sen Did you know that former beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen keeps a python as a pet?

The film ‘Lagaan’ by Aamir Khan has the most number of British actors playing a significant role in the entire history of Bollywood cinema.

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)

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

Dharmendra’s fee when he debuted in 1960 in the movie ‘Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere’ was a meager 51 rupees.

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

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 the son-in-law of India and Hindi Film Industry's first ever Superstar, Rajesh Khanna and actress, Dimple Kapadia, as well as the brother-in-law of actress Rinke Khanna.

When Sridevi was only 13, she played Rajnikanth’s stepmom in a Tamil film called ‘Moondru Mudichu’.

Raj kapoor worked as assistant director on Dilip Saab's first film- Jwar Bhata' before making his debut in 'Aag'.

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

Anupam Kher awarded the "Special National Jury Award" and the "Actor of the Decade Award" (Millennium Honours) among others, but he also holds the record as the only actor in the industry to have won eight consecutive Filmfare awards.

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).

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

The first motion picture in India was ‘The Wrestlers’ screened in 1899 a portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar.

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.

Akshay Kumar is son of producer Aruna Bhatia.

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.

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

Hrithik Roshan had a stammering problem since childhood. In order to combat the problem, he took speech lessons and, today, he is one of the most eloquent Bollywood stars.

Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

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

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.

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.

Raj Thackeray wanted to make a film with Amitabh Bachchan in 2005.

Aditya Chopra rejected 24 verses before approving the song 'Mere Khwaabon Mein Jo Aaye' for his debut film DDLJ.

Shahrukh Khan had Graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University and followed it up with a Masters Degree in Mass Communications (Film making) from Jamia Millia Islamia University, in New Delhi, but after a year Shah Rukh opted out as he had to make his acting career in Bollywood.

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

Dharmendra did 13 B grade Action films with Hemant Birje in 1991-2003.

Shahrukh Khan's first salary was Rs 50 which he earned by working as an usher at a Pankaj Udhas' concert in Delhi. He used the money to take the train to Agra and see the Taj Mahal.

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.

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

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

Salman Khan likes to collect soaps. In his bathroom, there is a collection of all kinds of handmade and herbal soaps. His favourites are soaps made from natural fruit and vegetable extracts.

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).

Salman Khan was offered Saif Ali Khan's role in 'Kal Ho Na Ho'

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hukumat, Dharmendra 74th solo hero film, was highest grosser, at the box office in 1987.

Sholay won only one award even after its mega success at the box office.

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.

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

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

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.