Bollywood film fraternity is the showbiz world, controversies, glamour, paparazzi, and well-kept secrets. The industry that has been churning out movies for more than a decade now has kept many secret and fun unknown facts under the wrap. When a movie is produced in Bollywood, a lot more than the script, actor and music go into it. While the plotline, the avatar of actors, and smoothness of the music come out on the screen, there's a lot of trivia that stays behind the curtain. To take give you a feeling of FOMO, here we bring you the top 10 unknown and mind-blowing fun facts of Bollywood movies that will leave you astonished:
1. Karan Johar edited Kal Ho Na Ho again for the sake of SRK’s kids: Kal Ho Na Ho is one of the most heart-touching movies ever produced in Bollywood. While the whole story touched our hearts, the role of Rahul made us cry, but seeing their father die was not easy for SRK’s kid and that’s why uncle Karan Johar took this matter in his hand and made a special edit to the ending of Kal Ho Naa Ho for the sake of the kids, and the scene shows Aman flying away.
2. The vice-versa in Rockstar: There is denying the fact that Imitiaz Ali is one of the most unconventional directors of the industry. The director used the same way in the shooting of Rockstar. He actually filmed the ending scene of Rockstar first because he wanted to make sure that the hairstyle of Ranveer stays as it is.
3. ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ was a trilingual: While we know a lot of facts about Mughal-e-Azam there is one interesting secret that we always miss out on. ‘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.
4. Manthan was produced by 5,00,000 farmers: Helmed by Shyam Benegal, Manthan was technically produced by 5,00,000 farmers. The movie still holds the record of a movie funded by the largest number of individuals ever!
5. Yaadein: Yaadein is a 1964 movie of 113 minutes and features Sunil Dutt as the only actor. It's featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category of fewest actors in a narrative film.
6. Lagaan has more British actors than the lead cast: The highest-grossing movie of 2001, Lagaan has many unknown facts under the wrap and one of those is the fact that it had the maximum number of British actors ever to be cast in a single movie in the history of Bollywood cinema.
7. The story of how Sunil landed in Mother India: Sunil Dutt initially used to be an RJ for Radio Ceylon and wanted to interview his favorite actress Nargis. But he could not say a single word in front of her & the interview had to be canceled. Years later, when he finally got a chance to work with her in ‘Mother India’ (1957), they fell in love and got married.
8. Kareena wore 130 dresses in fashion: Just like in real-life, Kareena played the role of fashion-nova in the movie ‘Fashion’. And to justify the title of the movie, the actress wore more than 130 different dresses by top fashion designers from all over the world.
9. Anil Kapoor started his career from Raj Kapoor’s garage: Anil Kapoor’s family lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage when they first moved to Mumbai. Later, they shifted to a room in one of Mumbai’s middle-class suburbs.
10. Kaho Naa.. Pyar Hai’ holds a special record in Guinness Book of World record: 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!
