10 Interesting Facts About Bollywood

1. Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... starrer film Lagaan was appreciated by the fans for its story plot and his acting. It is however known to very few that Lagaan had the maximum number of British actors to have acted in the single Bollywood movie.The movie was also the first movie in history of Indian cinema to have released in China. The dubbed movie in Chinese was released in first in Shanghai followed by its release in Beijing.

2. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is one of the best Bollywood movies of all time. This Shahrukh starrer movie was considered to have changed the course of the Indian cinema. Many may not know the fact that Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress  >> Read More... was the first choice for the role of Raj in this epic Bollywood movie.Apart from this the movie holds the record of longest running movie in the Indian cinema history surpassing the record of another great movie Sholay. The movie completed the 20th year of uninterrupted running at the Maratha Mandir cinema hall in Mumbai. The movie holds the record of 1009 weeks of uninterrupted running.

3. In the movie Heroine, Kareena Kapoor starrer was known more about the costumes of Kareena than its story plot. In this movie, Kareena was seen wearing in total 138 designer dresses. Manish Malhotra            Manish Malhotra, is an Indian fashion d >> Read More... who is considered to be one of the best fashion designers in Bollywood was to provide the job to design the dresses for Kareena. The dresses for the movie were one of its kind and this is what made the even more worthy. Thus, this made Kareena’s wardrobe to be the most expensive of all the Bollywood movies to be ever created with one of the Kareena’s dress costing 1.5 crore.

4. In 2002, Kaho Na Pyar Hai was added in Guinness Book of World Records for holding the maximum number of awards for a single movie. The movie bagged 92 awards in total. Apart from this, Kareena Kapoor was the first choice opposite to Hrithik for the role of Sonia. She however declined the offer due to her personal reasons and was later seen with Abhishek Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan, or Abhishek Srivastava, is a ve >> Read More... in Refugee.

5. Raj Kapoor Rajkapoor is a film maker and movie director from >> Read More... ’s Awaara, the movie released during the Second World War was the first Bollywood movie to be liked by Russia. It is thought that the Russians were in terrible condition due to the Second World War and seeing the greater difficulties faced by a poor country in this Raj Kapoor movie gave them the confidence to face their own problems.The movie also saw the three generations of Kapoors Raj Kapoor, Prithviraj and Raj in the cast.

6. It is not known to the people that Bollywood actress KalkiKoechlin’s great-grandfather Maurice Koechlin was the chief engineer in the construction of the two biggest towers in the world - The Eiffel tower in Paris and the Armature of The Statue of Liberty in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . Apart from these, he was also the chief engineer in the construction of Garabit Viaduct.

7. Mera Naam Joker Story Soon >> Read More... starring Raj Kapoor and LOC Kargil are officially the two longest movies in Bollywood. The run time of both the movies is 4 hours and 25 minutes. The original version of the movie MeraNaam Joker however was 5 hours. Apart from this, Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker became the movie to have two intervals in the same movie.

8. The movie Paa saw the Bachchans - Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... and Abhishek Bachchan earned a place in Guinness World Record for becoming the only father-son pair to become a part of a film with reversed roles on-screen. Another interesting fact about Amitabh Bachchan not known to many is that he can write equally well with both his hands.

9.Indian film industry Bollywood is always considered inferior to the American industry Hollywood. But it is less known that 2.7 billion tickets are bought by the Indians annually which are the highest in the world but the average ticket price in India is among the lowest in the world which makes the earnings shadowed by Hollywood. Apart from this the first Bollywood movie was a short clip released in 1899 which is 11 years before first Hollywood movie was released.

10. Among the actors, it is Aamir Khan who is seen setting a bar when it comes to earnings in the box-office. He started off with 100 crores in Ghajini overtook the earning through his next movie 3 Idiots making it 200 crores which he crossed again in his next movie Dhoom 3 and reached the 300 crore mark with his last movie PK. Among the actresses, it is Deepika Padukone Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress and model. S >> Read More... who has set standard with 500 crore mark with her back to back hit movies comprising of Chennai Express Click to look into! >> Read More... , Ram Leela, Happy New Year Click to look into! >> Read More... , Tamasha, Bajirao Mastani Click to look into! >> Read More... .