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 a s per strict orders. Even director Rakesh Mehra’s brother was also not allowed in.
Like Hrithik Roshan also Meena Kumari has 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.
Singer Shubha Mudgal sang a song and even composed for Mira Nair's 'Kamasutra'.
Satyajit Ray was so impressed with Amitabh Bachchan that he decided to use his voice as commentary in 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi' since he did not find any suitable role for him.
Writer turned director Anurag Kashyap was credited in the titles of Sanjay Gupta's flop flick 'Jung' (starring Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff), which was actually written by his brother Abhinav.
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'.
Before making his debut in Kaho Naa...Pyar Hai, Hrihik Roshan attended the acting classes of Kishore Namit Kapoor among others.
The 'Karz' song Om Shanti Om became a rage and is supposed to be the first Hindi song to be played in Discotheque setting a trend thereafter.
Rinke Khanna was supposed to do the role of Malik's ladylove in 'Company' but finally Ram Gopal Verma chose to go with Manisha Koirala for the small but crucial role.
The whole script of 'Tum Bin' based on a stark visual director Anubhav Sinha saw years back of a person lying dead on the road and the person's mobile is ringing.
The opening bars of the film 'Parinda' were inspired from the composition Fanfare for the common man.
In the film 'Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat', director Rajiv Rai had conceived an author-backed role for his 'Gupt' hero Bobby Deol but things didn't work out and he didn't do the film.
Choreographer Saroj Khan was very upset for her choreography for Tabu's dance number Rang De in 'Thakshak' went absolutely unnoticed at all award ceremonies.
Rekha earned the rare distinction of being awarded the famous UP award for the best Kathak dancer in Hindi films by the King of Kathak, Pandit Lachchu Maharaj.
Actress Jaya Prada was the first choice for the title role of Harmesh Malhotra's 'Nagina'.
Zayed Khan's role in 'Main Hoon Na' was earlier offered to Abhishek Bachchan, which in turn was first offered to Hrithik Roshan. But both had problems with dates.
During the making of 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham', Karan Johar had to temper Hrithik's energetic dancing to suit the film and kept telling Kareena to concentrate on emoting.
Rani Mukherjee replaced Twinkle in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', Mahima in 'Hadh Kar Di Apne' and 'Chalo Ishq Ladayen', and Pooja Bhatt in 'Ghulam'.
The only film in which Dilip Kumar and Raj Kumar acted together apart from 'Saudagar' was 'Paigham'.
It was in Dev Anand's debut film 'Hum Ek Hai' in which Guru Dutt got his first break as a choreographer and an assistant director.
The Tusshar-Kareena film 'Mujhe Kuchh Kehna Hai' is a Hindi remake of a Telugu super hit film 'Tholi Prema' starring none other than Keerti Reddy.
Actress Amisha Patel's grandfather Rajni patel was the first sheriff of Bombay.
Hrithik Roshan loves collecting photographs. He would never travel anywhere without his personal camera. He has a vast collection photographs and special scrapbooks marking each occasion.
Hindi film actor Jagdish Raj is in the Guiness Book of World Records for playing the role of a police inspector in 144 films.
The Aamir Khan - Ayesha Jhulka film 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar' is inspired from the Hollywood flick 'Breaking Away'.
The film 'Bandhan' was dying in the cans for three years because the producers had run out of cash. VENUS records pumped in money and got life out of it.
At one point of time, actor Mithun chakraborty used to run around with his gold medal, the National Award he had won for his performance in his very first film, 'Mrigaya' and trooped from studio to studio, from office to office, from filmmaker to filmmaker, looking for work.
According to the director Manmohan Desai himself, the lost and found blockbuster 'Amar Akbar Anthony was absolute 'rubbish'.
The chartbuster song in Subhash Ghai's 'Ram Lakhan', My name is Lakhan was recorded with only 72 Rhythm instruments and no vocal or string instrument was used in its composition.
The much-hyped marriage between Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna was conducted according to the Arya Samaj rules.
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.
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