Some interesting facts about bollywood

Dilwale Dulhaniya LeJayenge has won the most number of filmfare awards till date.

Dilip Kumar has won the most awards as the Best Actor with 8 awards spanning over 3 decades.

Sholay won only one award even after its mega success at the box office.

Real Names of stars

Meena Kumari Mehjabeen
Akshay Kumar- Rajiv hari Om Bhatia
Jeetendra - Ravi Kapoor
Rajesh Khanna - Jatin Khanna
Sunny Dol - Ajay Sngh Deol
Bobby Deol - Vijay Singh Deol
Ajay devgan - Vishal Devgan

*Both Sridevi AND Juhi Chawla€™s daughters€™ name is Jhanvi

*Amir Khan€™s wife Reena and ShahRukh€™s wife Gauri share the same birthday, October 8th

* Shilpa Shetty reaches home everyday latest before 10:30. Her father doesn€™t let her and her sister to roam around at nights.

*Anil Kapoor€™s family lived in Raj Kapoor€™s garage when they first came to Mumbai. Later they shifted to a room in one of mumbai€™s middle-class suburbs.

*Amjad Khan was almost dropped from Sholay because the scriptwriter Javed Akhtar found his voice to be too weak for Gabbar Singh€™s role.

*Raveena Tandon had adopted two girls from an orphanage somewhere around 1997-98. They live with her and go to school.

*Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen also adopted a baby girl. Her name is Renee and she lives with Sushmita.

*Dharmendra was such a big fan of actress Suraiya when he was young that he walked miles to watch her film Dillagi over 40 times!

*Amitabh gave up his job as a freight broker for the shipping firm Bird and Company to become an actor.

During the making of Sholay, Dharmendra paid the light boys to make mistakes during shots, so that he could embrace Hema Malini again and again.

*Raakhee€™s favorite snack is cheese and marmalade on crackers.

*Rekha was a crazy fan of Mumtaz when she entered the industry.

*Amir Khan once shaved off his hair because a girl rejected him.

*Abhishek Bachchan is a TOTAL prankster. On the sets of his movie Shararat he went around pouring water on everyone€™s head when they were asleep.

*Raj Kapoor€™s €œMera Naam Joker€ is the first hindi movie to have two intervals.

*When Sridevi was only 13 she played Rajnikant€™s stepmom in a tamil film called Moondru Mudichu.

*Kajol€™s favorite ring is an OM studded with diamonds which she wears both ON and OFF screen.

*Kaho Naa Pyar Hai will be added to the Guiness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. Kaho Naa Pyar Hai won a total of 92 awards!!!

*Amir Khan's film Lagaan is a total of 4 hrs long. This movie also has the most number of British actors in a significant role in the history of Bollywood Cinema.

Raj Kapoor's nickname for Shashi Kapoor was "Taxi".

*Fardeen Khan was arrested on May 5th 2001 in connection with Cocaine Seizure.

*The popular United Kingdom Magazine "Guardian" said Lagaan is a must-see movie especially for the British!

*Shahrukh Khan was a rank holder both at college and university levels on his BA exams.

*Raj Kapor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy.

*On the sets of Amar Akbar Antony Rishi Kapoor smeared kajal on Neetu Singh's face just before the shoot of a song. Poor girl had to redo her makeup.

*Fans of Amitabh Bachchan built him a temple in Calcutta. The temple has his movies and a lot of info abt him.

*Amir Khan is such a perfectionist! IN the movie Ghulam he did a dangerous stunt where he has to run against a speeding train ALL BY HIMSELF. He almost got killed during that scene

*The word "Bollywood" has been added to the Oxford English dictionary

*Shekar Kapur was originally engaged to be married to Shabana Azmi but then he realized that was a bad idea

*Dev Anand picks up his movie titles and story lines from newpaper headlines and stories

*Hrithik Roshan was an assistant to his father during the making of Koyla.

*Nana Patekar actually stayed in military camp for several months to prepare for his movie Prahaar.