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

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

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

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

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

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

Bollywood Govinda
Dev Anand was highest paid Hindi actor from 1957-1964 and and the 2nd highest paid Hindi actor from 1965-1975.

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

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

Aamir Khan Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
John Abraham voice was dubbed by another actor in his first film Jism (2003).

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

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

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
Salman Khan wrote films like 'Veer' and 'Chandramukhi'. Unfortunately all three films failed at the Box Office.

Bollywood Salman Khan
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
In Ishqiya, Preity Zinta was the makers original choice. However, Vidya Balan took over the female lead.

Bollywood Preity Zinta Vidya Balan
Farhan Akhtar is exactly one day older than actor Hrithik Roshan, who's a close friend in personal life.

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

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

Bollywood
Emraan Hashmi did his first film Footpath with the screen name " Farhan Hashmi".

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

Bollywood Shahrukh 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
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
Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

Bollywood Katrina Kaif
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
Salman Khan made his debut in 1988 in 'Biwi Ho To Aisi' as Farouq Sheikh's Younger Brother.

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

Katrina Kaif
Shahrukh Khan launched his perfume "SK" with the French perfumers and Jeannes Arthes.

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

Bollywood Karisma Kapoor
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
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
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
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 was voted 7th best-looking man in the world by People Magazine.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Anil Kapoor's father Surinder Kapoor was Nargis and Geeta Bali's secretary.

Anil Kapoor 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
Style diva Rekha wears only crimson or chocolate colored lipstick when making public appearances.

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

Bollywood
‘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
Govinda was voted No.10 in a BBC News Online Survey to find out the Top 10 Greatest Stars of Stage and Screen of the last 1000 years.

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

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

Bollywood Salman Khan
Rakhee favorite snach is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

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.

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

Deepika Padukone
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
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
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
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
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
Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts.

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
Akshay Kumar studied martial arts in Bangkok before becoming an actor.

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

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

Bollywood Sholay 3D
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
Sushmita Sen Did you know that former beauty queen and actress Sushmita Sen keeps a python as a pet?

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

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

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 did his first playback singing for the film 'Hello Brother'.

Bollywood Salman Khan
Aamir Khan was supposed to play the role of Max in Josh but later it was played by Shahrukh.

Aamir Khan Bollywood
Salman Khan suffers from trigeminal neuralgia, a facial nerve disorder commonly known as the suicide disease.

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

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

Bollywood Hrithik Roshan
Aamir Khan once shaved off his hair because a girl rejected him.

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

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

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

Bollywood Emraan Hashmi

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Dev Anand was highest paid Hindi actor from 1957-1964 and and the 2nd highest paid Hindi actor from 1965-1975.

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

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

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

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

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

Salman Khan wrote films like 'Veer' and 'Chandramukhi'. Unfortunately all three films failed at the Box Office.

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.

In Ishqiya, Preity Zinta was the makers original choice. However, Vidya Balan took over the female lead.

Farhan Akhtar is exactly one day older than actor Hrithik Roshan, who's a close friend in personal life.

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.

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.

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.

Shahrukh 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Emraan Hashmi did his first film Footpath with the screen name " Farhan Hashmi".

Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

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).

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.

Katrina Kaif's father was a Kashmiri Indian.

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.

Salman Khan made his debut in 1988 in 'Biwi Ho To Aisi' as Farouq Sheikh's Younger Brother.

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.

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

Shahrukh Khan launched his perfume "SK" with the French perfumers and Jeannes Arthes.

‘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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Anil Kapoor's father Surinder Kapoor was Nargis and Geeta Bali's secretary.

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

Style diva Rekha wears only crimson or chocolate colored lipstick when making public appearances.

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.

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

‘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’.

Govinda was voted No.10 in a BBC News Online Survey to find out the Top 10 Greatest Stars of Stage and Screen of the last 1000 years.

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

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

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.

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

Rakhee favorite snach is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

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.

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

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..

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

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.

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.

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.

Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts.

Akshay Kumar studied martial arts in Bangkok before becoming an actor.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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).