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

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

Bollywood Karisma Kapoor
Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen adopted a baby girl. Her name is Renee and she lives with Sushmita.

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
Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

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

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

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

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

Bollywood
Irfan Khan is the first Bollywood actor who star in two films that won the Academy Award for Best Director (Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Life of Pi (2012)). Both films also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score.

Bollywood Irrfan 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
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
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
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
Devdas was the first film of the pair Dilip Kumar-Vyjanthimala, which though a box office flop, fetched awards for most of the crew and Vyjanthimala got nominated for Best Actress at Filmfare and Dilip Kumar got Best Actor award at Filmfare.

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

Bollywood
Lootera movie is based on O'Henry's classic story, 'The Last Leaf'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amitabh Bachchan Bollywood
Salman Khan's all time favorite actors in bollywood are Megastars Dharmendra and Shatrughan Sinha.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bollywood Nana Patekar
Dharmendra starred in Alok Chitra's shelved film " Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil " in 1965. The film co starred Shashi Kapoor. This would have been the first film they both worked in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bollywood Shahrukh Khan
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
Lagaan is the first Bollywood film in which maximum number of foreigners have worked.

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

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

Bollywood Chunky Pandey Salman Khan
Award winning singer Sonu Nigam played the younger avatar of Sunny Deol in the film 'Betaab'.

Bollywood Sunny Deol
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
Akshay Kumar is son of producer Aruna Bhatia.

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

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

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

Akshay Kumar

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.

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

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

Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen adopted a baby girl. Her name is Renee and she lives with Sushmita.

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

Shahrukh Khan wears his wedding ring on his right hand.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Irfan Khan is the first Bollywood actor who star in two films that won the Academy Award for Best Director (Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Life of Pi (2012)). Both films also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score.

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.

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.

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.

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

Devdas was the first film of the pair Dilip Kumar-Vyjanthimala, which though a box office flop, fetched awards for most of the crew and Vyjanthimala got nominated for Best Actress at Filmfare and Dilip Kumar got Best Actor award at Filmfare.

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.

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

Lootera movie is based on O'Henry's classic story, 'The Last Leaf'

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dharmendra starred in Alok Chitra's shelved film " Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil " in 1965. The film co starred Shashi Kapoor. This would have been the first film they both worked in.

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

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

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

‘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’.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.