- The Bachchans (Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan) hold the Guinness World record for being the only father-son duo to have played reversed roles as Abhishek is the father of Amitabh in the movie ‘Paa’.
Amitabh and Abhishek in 'PAA' source:media.glamsham.com |
- ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ is the longest running movie in world. It has been running for over 1000 weeks.
Sahrukh and Kazole in 'DDLJ' source:cinematerial.com |
- ‘Do Aankhein Baraah Haath’ is the first Indian movie to have won the Golden Globe award under the Samuel Goldwyn category.
'Do ankhen Barah Hath' movie poster source:wikimedia.org |
- Bollywood’s first production which was a short film was produced in the the year 1899 – that is 11 years before the first Hollywood movie was released. it was a portrait photographer called Harischandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar who made Indian ‘motion picture' history. His short ‘reality’ film screened in 1899 was called The Wrestlers and was a simple recording of a local wrestling match.
scene of 'Raja Harishchand' First Indian movie source:india24.com |
- Jagdish Raj also holds the Guinness World record for the being the most typecast actor as he played the role of a police inspector in 144 movies.
Jgdish Raj as a police officer source:hindustantimes.com |
- Amazingly ‘Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai’ has the Guinness World Record for holding 92 awards for one movie where they bags these awards in almost all the categories.
Hritik and Amisha in 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai' source:amazon.com |
- ‘Salaam Bombay’ (1988 movie) won the Golden Camera and Audience Awards at the Cannes Film Festival. This film directed by Mira Nair was also the 2nd Indian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
1988 movie poster of 'Salam Bombay' source:clicker.in |
- After the movie ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ , there was a 32% increase of Indian visitors in Spain.
scene of Tomatino Festival, Spain in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' source:fullmoviespoint.com |
- Izzat is the only Bollywood movie, where Jayalalitha (Amma) has been cast. Jaya Lalita is the 5 times Chief Minister of indian state Tamilnadu and in the present too.
movie poster of 'Izzat' source:ytimg.com |
- Sridevi was mere 13 when she played the role of the super actor Rajnikanth’s stepmom in the Tamil movie ‘Moondru Mudichu’. Sridevi was one of the most successful actress of her time.
Bollywood actress Sridevi in 'Moondru Mudichu' source:pickbo.com |
- Jeetendra started his career as a body double for a female actor Sandhya for the movie ‘Navrang’. It was the very interesting role as the female of Jeetendra in the movie.
'Navrang' movie poster source:pinimg.com |
- The movie 'Kismet' was such a big blockbuster that it was one of the first movies to run straight in the theatre for almost 3 years.
'Kismet' 1943 movie poster source:grabhouse.com |
- Ae Maalik Tere Bandhe Hum song sung by the legendry Lata Mangeshkar from the movie ‘Do ankhen Barah Hath’ has been adopted as the anthem of a school in Pakistan.
scene from the song: Aye Malik Tere Bande Hum source:grabhouse.com |
- Until 1990, Amitabh Bachchan was the only star paid in crores.
Agnipath, the 1990 blockbuster of Amitabh source:ytalkies.com |
- Anil Kapoor the great actor in Bollywood and worked many Hollywood movies like Slum dog millionaire and Mission impossible, once lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage with his family when he first moved to Mumbai. Later they shifted to a room in one of Mumbai’s middle-class suburbs.
- Amitabh Bachchan is so punctual that many a times he used to open the gates of Filmistan Studios himself for he used to reach there before the watchman or gatekeeper.
- Sunil Dutt initially used to be an RJ for Radio Ceylon and desired to interview his most favorite actress Nargis. Later, when he worked with her in the 1957 movie ‘Mother India’, they fell in love and got married.
in the left Sunil Datt from the scene of 'Mother India' source:rediff.com |
EXTRA
- According to data from Singapore-based website Wealth-X, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan is the second richest actor with $600 million. Where Jerry Seinfeld is the world's richest actor with a fortune of around $820 million dollars, and Tom Cruise is at number 2 with $480 million, rounds out the top three.
Super Star Shahrukh Khan with Fans at his home source:cloudfront.net |
- Bahubali: The Beginning has the Guinness World Record 2015 for making the largest poster. The poster has an area of 4,793.65 m² and was achieved by Global United Media Company Pvt Ltd (India) .
Mega poster of movie 'Bahubali' source:boxofficemovies.in |