Facts about bollywood and its stars....

* The song "Mehandi Lagane Rakhna" of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was originally written for another movie and was a bit different starting with "Payal Chankate Aa Jana" . However the Chopra brothers liked the song and included it in the the movie which became a hit track.

* Raj Kapoor launched dream girl, Hema Malini in the lead role for 'Sapno Ka Saudagar' opposite himself in 1968.

* The Big B was to be named 'Inquilab' before his father, the famous poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan finally agreed upon 'Amitabh', which means brilliance unlimited.

* Not a single outside the cast and crew of 'Aks' was allowed on the sets of the film as per strict orders. Even director Rakesh Mehra's brother was also not allowed in.

* Meena Kumari has also six fingers on her right hand. It take good care to not shown it any of the scenes of films she had done.

* Dharmendra in his youth was such a big fan to actress Suraiya that he walked miles to watch her film 'Dillagi' over 40 times.

* Of all the characters in his directorial debut 'Dil Chahta Hai', Farhaan Akhtar definitely wanted Saif Ali Khan as Sameer, Dimple as Tara and Preity as Shalini.

* In the songs 'Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hain' from 'Dhadkan', title sng of 'Deewane' and 'Neend Churayi Meri' from 'Ishq' we see the coming together of arch rivals Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan.

* Sanjay Leela Bhansali had written the script of 'Khamoshi 'with Amitabh Bachchan in mind.

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


* Film Main Hoon Na was originally named 'The Outsider' and the actor did not initially approve of change in the movie's title by director Farah Khan .

* Bobby Deol's first brush with film acting came very early, when he was only seven years old. He played Dharmendra junior in Manmohan Desai's 'Dharam Veer'.

* 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'.

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

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

* Vibrant Talent Manoj Bajpai of the "Bhiku Mhatre" fame failed several screen tests before finally getting a break in filmdom

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

* 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.

* Aishwarya Rai's pet name at home is 'Gullu' and Salman's is 'Sallu'.

# The most beautiful face of bollywood Aishwarya Rai is listed on top in Forbes magazine's list of Bollywood's most bankable stars above Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan.

# Aishwarya Rai received the prestigious Padmashri award instituted by the government of India. President Pratibha Patil felicitated Aishwarya for her contribution to the Indian cinema.


# Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai rejected the offer of Barbie doll to be modeled on Aishwarya Rai due to her busy schedules.

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

# Shahrukh Khan has been awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres [Order of the Arts and Literature] award by the French government for his Exceptional Career.

# Shahrukh has had a book released on himself called 'King of Bollywood' written by Anupama Chopra.

# Beautiful bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra received Nielsen Box Office Award on March 23rd, 2009 for her outstanding contribution to Asian film industry during the third annual Asian Film Awards as part of the events during the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival.

# Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan is acting in Hindi movies like "Raavana" [2009] starring Aishwarya Rai & Ajay Devagan, "Kal Kisne Dekha" [2009] starring Juhi Chawla & Rishi Kapoor and "Crooked" [2009] starring Irrfan Khan & Anupam Kher.

# Gorgeous Katrina Kaif expressed her gratitude for the crew members of the movie "Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani" [2009] by distributing Rs 5 lakh among them on the last day of the shoot.

# Glam doll Katrina Kaif is chosen as the first Indian face to represent the Barbie doll and to walk the ramp in Barbie clothes. She is endorsing the Barbie in the iconic doll’s 50th year becoming the new Celebrity Barbie.

# The generous actress Katrina met the slum children on behalf of Salman Khan's Foundation 'Being Human'.

# Beautiful bollywood actress Bipasha Basu and her current boyfriend and bollywood actor John Abraham dressed in attires by their favorite designers, walk the ramp for its first ever fashion show 'Kolkata Fashion Week' which begins on March 2nd, 2009.

# Bipasha Basu is learning belly dance as she recently has some free time.

# Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is currently involved in a campaign to bring awareness among the voters for the upcoming elections in association with the Association for Democratic Reforms [ADR] and National Election Watch [NEW]. The theme of the campaign is 'Sache ko chune, Achche ko chune' which means 'Vote for integrity, Vote for good people'.

# Aamir declined to have a wax imitation of him put on display at Madame Tussauds in London in 2007.

# Bollywood actor and supermodel John Abraham was the first Indian Brand ambassador for Diet Pepsi.

# Hrithik Roshan, the famous bollywood actor who underwent knee surgery twice has recovered well and performed a difficult action sequence for an ad film in South Africa. Hrithik was hurt severely while shooting the action sequences for the movie "Krrish" [2006] and the injury got aggravated while shooting for "Jodhaa Akbar" [2008].

# Hrithik finished shooting for his home banner's international project "Kites" which is directed by Anurag Basu and recently signed Sanjay Leela Bhansali's yet untitled movie starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Barbara Mori.

# The highest paid supermodel John Abraham who is the brand ambassador of Castrol Power 1, Yamaha Marque, Clinic All Clear, Fastrack eye gear and Samsung cell phones has become a producer by co-producing the movie "1-800-Love" [2009] along with Abbas Tyrewala.

# The beautiful bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor daughter of bollywood actor Anil kapoor made her acting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya" in 2007. She also acted in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's "Delhi-6" starring Abhishek Bachchan and going to perform in David Dhawan's comedy film "Come On Pappu" alongside Akshay Kumar.

# In 2006, Saif appeared along with various other Bollywood actors like Rani Mukerji, and Aishwarya Rai at the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, on behalf of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Delhi.

* Shyam Benegal’s multi-starrer Hari Bhari and Kalpana Lajmi’s award-winning Daman were both sponsored by the Ministry of Family Welfare.

* Director Rajiv Rai’s Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat is the first Hindi film to be shot in a single start to finish schedule. Other films have followed suit.

* Before finalizing Anu Malik as the composer for his film Aks, Rakesh Mehra jotted down the 10 best songs that he remembered in the last ten years. He found Anu’s name popping up 7 times and hence he chose him to do the honors. Ranjit Barot acted as the arranger and designer.

* Aishwarys Rai supposedly walked out of Kamal Hassan’s disastrous Abhay due to the presence of a kissing scene, which the beau Salman did not like the idea of. Raveena stepped in.

* Actress Smriti Mishra was not allowed to enter the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhasali’s Devdas by the strict guard present there and Shah Rukh had to intervene to pacify matters.

* The on screen love-pair of the hit blockbuster Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, Salman and Twinkle were not on talking terms while the shooting was on.

* Actor Rahul Dev did the screen tests for both Shool and Jungle for the roles, which ultimately went to Sayaji Shinde and Sunil Shetty

* Amitabh Bachchan himself coined the terms Ganga Maiya for the song by the same name in his son Abhishek’s film ‘Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai’.

* Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla were teamed in producer Prem Lalwani’s BADA AADMI, directed by Lekh Tandon. The film was launched with a song recording on June 2, 1993. Anand-Milind were the music directors.
* Sanjay Dutt had charged Rs. 12 lacs as remuneration for SAAJAN and at that point of time had agreed to act in another film of the maker [Sudhakar Bokade] for the same amount. Though Sanju’s popularity increased manifold after SAAJAN, the actor kept his promise and signed the producer’s new film, with Sridevi as his co-star, at the committed amount only.

* 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.

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

* The plot of Manmohan Desai’s ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ was inspired by a newspaper report about a man who left all his three children at different places and then committed suicide.

* The film genius V Shantaram served the Indian film industry in many capacities - as an artiste, a producer, a director, a studio owner, a trade leader, and an exhibitor and so on for 65 years.

* Hrithik’s grandmother Ira Roshan is the music director for ‘Krishna Kanhaiya Ram Ramaiya’, a collection of Krishna and Ram bhajans, released by T-series on Janmastami. Noted playback singers, Anuradha Paudwal and Suresh Wadekar, have sung the songs.

* Subhash Ghai roped in Sandeep Chowta to compose the background score for ‘Yaadein’ after being thoroughly impressed with his work in the Ram Gopal Verma films.


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Both Sridevi AND Juhi Chawla’s daughters’ name is Jhanvi

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Amir Khan’s wife Reena and ShahRukh’s wife Gauri share the same birthday, October 8th
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Shilpa Shetty reaches home everyday latest before 10:30. Her father doesn’t let her and her sister to roam around at nights.

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

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Amjad Khan was almost dropped from Sholay because the scriptwriter Javed Akhtar found his voice to be too weak for Gabbar Singh’s role.

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Raveena Tandon had adopted two girls from an orphanage somewhere around 1997-98. They live with her and go to school.

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Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen also adopted a baby girl. Her name is Renee and she lives with Sushmita.
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Amitabh gave up his job as a freight broker for the shipping firm Bird and Company to become an actor.

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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.

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Raakhee’s favorite snack is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

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

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

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Abhishek Bachchan is a TOTAL prankster. On the sets of his movie Shararat he went around pouring water on everyone’s head when they were asleep.

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Raj Kapoor’s “Mera Naam Joker” is the first hindi movie to have two intervals.

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When Sridevi was only 13 she played Rajnikant’s stepmom in a tamil film called Moondru Mudichu.

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Kajol’s favorite ring is an OM studded with diamonds which she wears both ON and OFF screen.

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Kaho Naa Pyar Hai will be added to the Guiness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. Kaho Naa Pyar Hai won a total of 92 awards!!!

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Amir Khan's film Lagaan is a total of 4 hrs long. This movie also has the most number of British actors in a significant role in the history of Bollywood Cinema.

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

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

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

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Shahrukh Khan was a rank holder both at college and university levels on his BA exams.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Amir 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

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The word "Bollywood" has been added to the Oxford English dictionary

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Shekar Kapur was originally engaged to be married to Shabana Azmi but then he realized that was a bad idea

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Dev Anand picks up his movie titles and story lines from newpaper headlines and stories

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Akshay Kumar's real name is Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, Mahima's name is Ritu Chaudary, Bobby Deol's name is Vijay Singh Deol

# Hrithik Roshan was originally offered the role of Laxman, but Farah Khan wanted an actor who wasn't so popular.

# Aishwarya Rai was offered the role of Chandni but it didn't work out.

# Amisha Patel was considered for the role of Sanjana.

# Sohail Khan was considered for the role of Lucky.

# The film is a takeoff on the Ramayana, as the names show: Ram, Lucky (Lakshman) and Raghavan (Ravana).

# The carriage Shahrukh Khan is riding when chasing the assassins has the name Dhanno written on it. This is a reference to Sholay (1975), where Hema Malini's horse is named Dhanno.

# Farah Khan wanted Naseeruddin Shah to play Raghavan, but his work on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen prevented such a large role. Hence, his special appearance as Shah Rukh Khan's father.

# Nana Patekar was wanted to play Raghavan by Farah Khan but she was scared to approach him.

# Throughout the movie, director Farah Khan used references from movies she enjoyed.

# The title "Main Hoon Na" is a very popular dialogue used by 'Shahrukh Khan' in most movies.

# Originally this was supposed to be 'Zayed Khan's' and 'Amrita Rao's' first film but because of 'Shahruhk Khan's' back injury this film got delayed.

# Kamal Hassan was offered the role of Raghavan, but rejected the part saying he didn't wish to play an unpatriotic character.

# Tabu makes an uncredited appearance in the movie. She can be seen when Shahrukh Khan is doing dance practice for the prom night.