Bollywood facts: Lesser known facts about superstars of the industry

Bollywood film industry is all about gossip, glamour well-kept secrets and paparazzi. If you are thinking that you know about everything that happens in Bollywood, then here is a list of facts that will definitely blow your mind. Read to know more about the following interesting facts of Bollywood.

A list of Bollywood Trivia

• Bollywood actor Sridevi’s age was only 13 when she played Rajnikanth’s stepmom in Moondru Midichu. Monndru Modichu is a 1976 Tamil black and white movie.
• Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh and Sonam Kapoor are second cousins.
• The actor Devika Rani was the first one who holds a degree in film-making.
• Bollywood actor Waheeda Rahman has played both lover and a mother to the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan.  In the 1976 movie Adalat, she played the role of his love interest. In the 1978 movie Trishul, she played the role of Amitabh’s mother.
• Bollywood actor Hirthik’s actual surname is not Roshan. His real surname is Nagrath.
• The great-grandfather Maurice Koechlin of the Bollywood actor Kalki Koechlin’s was the chief engineer for the construction of the iconic Statue of Liberty and even Eiffel Tower in Paris.
• The Raj Kapoor starrer Mera Naam Joker was the first Bollywood film to have two intervals.
• Anil Kapoor’s family when they initially moved to Mumbai, lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage.  Later they moved to one of Mumbai’s middle-class suburbs.
• Ae Malik Tere Bande Hum, the Lata Mangeshkar song from the 1957 movie Do Aankhen Barah Haath was the original composition of Vasant Desai. This song was adapted as the school anthem by a Pakistani school.
• The Aamir Khan Lagaan had the maximum number of British actors ever to be cast in a single movie in the entire history of Bollywood. 
• Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was the first choice of the creators for Shah Rukh Khan starrer Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. It is harder to believe that evennTom Cruise was considered for the role of Raj Malhotra.
• Bollywood actor Aamir Khan also popularly known as the perfectionist comes from the family of an eminent and revolutionary writer Maulana Abul Kamal Azaad.
• LOC: Kargil and Mera Naam Joker both are the longest films ever made in India with a run time of 225 minutes.
• In the 1981 movie, Silsila actor Shashi Kapoor played an elder brother to Amitabh Bachchan. It was the only film where he played the role of an elder brother to him whereas in the movies like Do Aur Do Paanch, Suhaag, and Deewar Amitabh Bachchan played the roles of an elder sibling.
• The Hrithik Roshan starrer Kaho Naa Pyar Hai was added to the 2002 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for winning the most number of awards for a movie. The total number of awards won by the movie was 92.

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