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32 unusual facts about Bollywood


Adrian Bustamante

Adrian played a role of college student in a Bollywood movie "My name is Khan" where he got the opportunity to see the culture of shooting films by Bollywood.

Ananya Khare

Ananya Khare (Hindi: अनन्य खरे), (born 16 March 1968), is a Bollywood actress starring in supporting roles of several successful movies, including Devdas and Chandni Bar.

Arena of Stars

In 2002, it was the site of the 3rd IIFA Awards, the premier award show that honors both the artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood.

Ayesha Kapur

She is an award winning Indian film child actress who is best known for playing young Michelle McNally in the Bollywood movie Black.

Chelembra bank robbery

The leader confessed that the crime was inspired by the Bollywood movie Dhoom.

Dhaka lahan east champaran

Lyricist Moied Elhaam famous in Bollywood, D S P Khairuddin and One Syed Family resides here the head of this family name is Dr. Syed Sharfuddin who belongs to Syed zahid Ali Family who was a famous Sufi and peer of Islamic religion.

Hog Farm

They continued their trek across Europe and into India, where they decided to continue to Katmandu, Nepal, and worked as extras in a movie called Hare Kishna Hare Rama, by a Bollywood producer.

Huqa Pani

It gained a lot of popularity and many Directors in the Bollywood film industry requested his music for use in their films.

Ichchhadhari Nag

Many Bollywood movies incorporate the Ichchadhari Nag legends, or the character of Nagraj, such as Nagin (1954 film), Sridevi in the 1986 movie Nagina (film), and Reena Roy in Nagin (1976 film).

Jeff Doucette

He also played the main antagonist in the Bollywood film Hisss, and played the role of the panicky bladder in the Disney World attraction Cranium Command.

Lalita Lajmi

She gave a guest appearance in Aamir Khan's 2007 Bollywood film, Taare Zameen Par.

Lata Sabharwal

Lata Sabharwal Seth (born 28 August 1975) is an Indian film and TV actress, who also worked in Bollywood films.

Manini Mishra

She portrayed the role of a Bollywood superstar mother, Sushmita Juneja, who cannot speak Hindi properly.

Midnight Lamp

A young woman raped by her father, and doomed by the crippling mental illness that is her heritage, featuring on the reality TV show hosted by Bollywood import, the truly wonderful Puusi Meera .

My Girlfriend Is an Agent

The Bollywood remake will be co-produced by UTV Movies and director-turned-producer Imtiaz Ali, and directed by choreographer Bosco (of Bosco-Caesar fame), with Sushant Singh Rajput as the male lead.

My Life as a Poster

At the end, it is revealed that all of these pictures come from a Bollywood movie poster, revealing that the entire story is fictional.

Najane Kyun

For the video, the duo had to act alongside two A-list actors from Bollywood.

Neela Satyanarayanan

Neela Satyanarayanan has penned 150 songs and composed music for several Marathi movies and two Bollywood movies.

Nuranang Falls

It came to limelight when a song from the movie Koyla featuring Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, Tanhai Tanhai Tanhai was shot here and at Sangetser Lake in 1997.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Rampuri

However, in mid 1990s, the Government of Uttar Pradesh banned making such knives longer than 4.5 inches of blade length, which led to the drop in popularity of the knife, which even made its way to crime thrillers of Bollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

Royal College of Science, Arts and Commerce

Bollywood film director Anurag Basu is probably the most famous alumni of this college.

Saavn

Saavn, LLC is a digital distributor of Bollywood and Tamil Cinema music, with rights to over 2 million music tracks.

Save girls

Celebrities such as video director Jagmeet Bal, and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, have become involved in "Save the girl child" initiatives.

Screen Award for Best Special Effects

The Screen Award for Best Special Effects is chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from the Indian Bollywood film industry and the winners are announced in January.

Sharad Malhotra

He has been a model and Television for a while now and is wanting to move into movies, and he says that when he leaves Banoo Main Teri Dulhann he might go into Bollywood.

Sync sound

Most Bollywood films from the 1960s onwards do not employ this technique and for that very reason the 2001 films Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai were noted for the use of sync sound.

The Vinyl Records

In a land where Bollywood rules, all-girl four-piece The Vinyl Records (TVR) are making a whole lot of noise all their own, exciting the ears of India’s Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazine editors (who have featured TVR on their pages) in the process.

The Vulcan Dub Squad

The LP comes on like a meld of Arthur Lee's Love, The Smiths and The Kinks, The Wedding Present and Thor's Hammer (60s legends from Iceland), while at the same time offering transitional coherence reminiscent of 50/60's Bollywood scores.

There Goes Our Love Again

According to Slater, the video "is a homage to 1960s Bollywood thriller Gumnaam".

Vineet Kumar Singh

Vineet Kumar Singh is an Indian film actor who played noticing role of Danish Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) .

Vivian Alamain

Vivian’s friend/former-henchman, Ivan suddenly returns to Salem, shows her the great wealth he has acquired as a Bollywood movie director/producer, expresses his undying love to her, and then takes her with him to India to make her a movie star, and open a new chapter in their lives together as equals.


Alfred Hsing

Hsing has appeared on TV shows and films such as CSI: NY, Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, and even in a Bollywood movie called Aakhari Decision.

Andy Hillenburg

Hillenburg also was a technical advisor and provided equipment for the filming of the Bollywood film Ta Ra Rum Pum, which was filmed at Rockingham and also at the ARCA race at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

Armaan Kirmani

Armaan made his Hindi Cinema (Bollywood) debut in Nikhil Advani's Patiala House (2011) alongside veteran actors Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia and Akshay Kumar.

Birla Mandir, Shahad

It has also serve as a shooting location for Bollywood films like Tere Naam.

Blame It on the Bellboy

The Bollywood film One Two Three is an uncredited remake of Blame It On The Bellboy.

Bobby Jasoos

Bobby Jasoos is an upcoming 2014 Indian pacy dramedy directed by Samar Shaikh and produced by Dia Mirza and Sahil Sangha under the banner of Born Free Entertainment.

Chaalbaaz

ChaalBaaz, a 1989 Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar

Dance India Dance

The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip-Hop, Bollywood Dance, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary).

The show features a variety of Indian cultural and international dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Kalaripayattu, Salsa, Samba and musical theatre styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented.

Dekha Pyar Tumhara

Interestingly after Dekha Pyar Tumhara, Kamal left Bollywood for personal reasons and resurfaced with Chachi 420 only in 1997, eventhough he had successful dubbed releases like Pushpak in 1988, Appu Raja and Mayor Sahab in 1990 and Hindustani in 1996.

Dewaar: The Best of Junoon

"Garaj Baras" was the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie, Paap and "Azadi" was the soundtrack of the movie based on Pakistan founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jinnah the Movie.

Dharam Sankat

Dharam Sankat is a 1991 Indian Bollywood film directed by N.D. Kothari and produced by Umesh N. Kothari.

Don't Stop Dreaming

Bollywood actors Rishi Kapoor and Sunil Shetty, EastEnders actress Michelle Collins, DJ and actor Richard Blackwood and singer Taz in his acting debut star in the film, which was released on 16 March 2007.

Dragon International Film Studios

The project has been nicknamed "Valleywood" as an homage to Hollywood, in the manner of other Hollywood-inspired names such as Dollywood or Bollywood.

Earl Reginhard

As he accelerated his knowledge in film making, he realized that his heart lied in making movies or to be a part of movies, which are globally appealing; breaking the barriers between Hollywood and Bollywood.

Ek Misaal

Ek Misaal is a 1986 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Rajesh Verma for producer Vibha Bhatnagar, starring Kanwaljit Singh and Kiran Juneja.

Esperson Buildings

The Bollywood film Sirf Tum had scenes filmed at the top of the Niels Esperson tower, notably for the song "Dilbar (Beloved)".

Fame X

Ganesh Hegde, an Indian singer, performer, video director and Bollywood choreographer

Ghulam-E-Mustafa

Ghulam-E-Mustafa is a 1997 Bollywood Crime Action Drama film directed by Partho Ghosh, Starring Nana Patekar and Raveena Tandon in the lead role, it was produced by P.G. Shrikanth and

Gulabi Gang

Initially, it was reported that the Bollywood film, Gulaab Gang, starring Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla as leads, is based on Sampat Pal's life, but the director denied this, saying that he is obliged to her work but the movie is not based on her life.

Hinduism in the Maldives

Hindi songs are the most popular songs in Maldives, especially the older ones from Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Pankaj Udhas, Manhar Udhas.

India's Dancing Superstar

This competition was being judged by Geeta Kapoor, a Bollywood choreographer, Riteish Deshmukh, a Bollywood actor and Ashley Lobo, also a choreographer who owns the Danceworx Academy (1998) and The Danceworx Repertory Company (2001).

Jaspinder Narula

She has lent her voice to record numerous music albums for a large number of successful Bollywood films like Dulhe Raja, Virasat, Mission Kashmir, Mohabbatein and Bunty aur Babli to name a few.

Jaspreet Jasz

He stepped into the world of playback singing in 2006 with the Bollywood film, Dil Kabaddi.

Kala Bazar

It was noted for having several of Bollywood's stars in a cameo at the film premiere of Mother India (1957), and it was also the only film to star the three Anand brothers together.

Kash Aap Hamare Hote

Kash… Aap Hamare Hote (Translation: Wish... You Were Mine) is a 2003 Bollywood musical film.

M. M. Srilekha

Apart from South Indian films, She has composed for bollywood films like Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain, Mere Sapnon Ki Raani, Aaghaaz etc.

Matt Brandstein

As an actor, Brandstein made a brief cameo as a CIA operative in the 2006 Karan Johar Bollywood blockbuster Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.

Mukhtar Sahota

Mukhtar has produced songs for a number of Bollywood films, including the films, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, Diary of a Butterfly, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns, and most recently for the forthcoming Punjabi Film, Heer and Hero.

Munna Bhai

Munna Bhai is a series of Bollywood films directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vinod Chopra Productions.

Naaka Bandi

Naaka Bandi is a 1990 Bollywood film starring Dharmendra, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Rakesh Bedi, Manik Irani, Satyendra Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey, Yunus Parvez and Amrish Puri and also features a cameo appearance by Mac Mohan.

One Pound Fish Man

A video was also filmed which featured Bollywood-style dancers and an appearance from former weatherman Michael Fish.

Qutb Minar

Bollywood actor and director Dev Anand wanted to shoot the song Dil Ka Bhanwar Kare Pukar from his movie Tere Ghar Ke Samne inside the minar.

Ramaa: The Saviour

Ramaa: The Saviour is a 2010 Bollywood fantasy action adventure film film produced by Paul London, written by Reshu Nath and directed by Hadi Ali Abrar.

Ritesh Sidhwani

Ritesh Sidhwani (born 1973) is a Bollywood film producer, who founded a film production house under the banner of Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Along with long-time friend Farhan Akhtar, he brought to the audience Dil Chahta Hai, his first film under his banner.

Roopak Saluja

It has completed its inaugural project, L’Oreal Fall Repair campaign with Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor, and will be shooting another spot soon for L’Oreal starring Aishwarya Rai.

Saboot

Saboot is a 1980 Bollywood Horror Film directed by Shyam Ramsay & Tulsi Ramsay.

Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar

He launched all his movies under the Thevar Films banner, which also produced the Rajesh Khanna's Bollywood hit Haathi Mere Saathi (1971).

Santoshi Mata

However, it was the 1975 Bollywood film Jai Santoshi Maa ("Hail to Santoshi Maa")—narrating the story of the goddess and her ardent devotee Satyavati—which propelled this then little-known "new" goddess to the heights of devotional fervour.

Smilie Suri

Suri was with Bollywood choreographer Shiamak Davar's group for five years and has also been trained by Sandeep Soparrkar.

Tahalka

Tahalka is a 1992 Bollywood film directed by Anil Sharma and featuring an ensemble cast including Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditya Pancholi, Javed Jaffrey, Amrish Puri, Mukesh Khanna, Ekta Behl, Pallavi Joshi, Sonu Walia, Shikha Swaroop and Firdaus Dadi in her acting debut.

Tamil culture

The Tamil cinema industry is the second largest film industry in India after Bollywood

Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa

Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa, (Hindi-तेरा जादू चल गया) (Your magical spell worked) is a Bollywood movie released in 2000 starring Abhishek Bachchan and Kirti Reddy in leading roles.

The Merchants of Bollywood

The show is about the history of the Bollywood film industry, and it is named after Hiralalji Merchant and his grand daughter Vaibhavi Merchant, two notable Indian choreographers.

Tomchi

Tomchi (Hindi:टोमची) is a 2014 Bollywood children film directed by Rajesh Gupta under the banner of Tulsi Production in association with Star buzz, starring Yashpal Sharma, Vrajesh Hirjee, Rati Agnihotri, Mahesh Thakur, Narendra Bedi, Upasana Singh, Kurush Deboo,Sheetal Shah, Swati Aggarwal and child artist Faiza Thakur, Azaan Shah, Shubham Sharma, Yana Mistry, Azaan Khan,Adeeb Hussain, Alam Khan, Haitvi Parek.

Wendy Albiston

Albiston had small roles in the Bollywood film Jhootha Hi Sahi directed by Abbas Tyrewala and in Five Daughters the BBCs factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women who were murdered in Ipswich in 2006.