Movies - Did You Know?
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Lucky: No Time for Love |
This is the first Hindi movie to be shot entirely in St. Petersburg, Russia. This movie was released in English, Hindi and Russian. |
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Aashiqui |
The film received huge success mainly due to its music. |
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Betaab |
The famous singer Sonu Nigam appears in the film as the young Sunny |
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Tahaan |
To get the right donkey for the movie, the director travelled to Sirham, a village on top of the mountains, since Kashmir had only mules and no donkeys. |
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Pakeezah |
Pakeezah took nearly 14 years to shoot because of a change in relationship between Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi the director from warm to worse and then back to a compromise. Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi were married when Pakeezah was first conceived. |
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Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak |
Faisal Khan (Aamir Khan's brother) is one of the 4 goons in Baba's gang who try to molest Juhi. |
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Ghajini |
Remake of the hugely successful Tamil film Ghajini |
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Pushpak |
The movie is silent, with no dialogue whatsoever, yet it deals with a complex and realistic plot.The film is notable for its inventive recasting of the silent film form. Though shot in color and featuring incidental noise, the film does not have any dialogues. |
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Nishabd |
Jiah Khan is daughter of yesteryears actress Rubiya |
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Octopussy |
This is James Bond's 13th movie. The Fabergé egg in the film is real, it was stolen in 1897 and is called the Coronation Egg. The car that Bond used, a Rolls Royce called Phantom II, is still in the car collection of the Maharaja. |
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Swades |
Swades is inspired by the story of Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi the NRI couple who returned to India and developed the pedal power generator to light remote village schools. Shahrukh works on a rainfall monitoring satellite known as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) in the film, which is an actual NASA mission. Swades was the first Indian movie to be shot at NASA. |
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Gangaajal |
The film was loosely based on the Bhagalpur blindings. These refer to incidents in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in Bihar when police blinded 31 undertrials, by pouring acid into their eyes and poking needles in their eyes. The incident was widely debated and discussed by several human rights organisations. |
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Gangaajal |
The film was loosely based on the Bhagalpur blindings. These refer to incidents in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in Bihar when police blinded 31 undertrials, by pouring acid into their eyes and poking needles in their eyes. The incident was widely debated and discussed by several human rights organisations. |
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Gangaajal |
The film was loosely based on the Bhagalpur blindings. These refer to incidents in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in Bihar when police blinded 31 undertrials, by pouring acid into their eyes and poking needles in their eyes. The incident was widely debated and discussed by several human rights organisations. |
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Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar |
The film may have been loosely inspired by the 1979 Hollywood film "Breaking Away". |
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Geethanjali |
This movie was unofficially remade in Hindi "Yaad Rakhegi Duniya" starring Aditya Pancholi, Rukhsar & Vikram Gokhale. |
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Roja |
This movie was originally made in Tamil. The film was subsequently dubbed in Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Telugu. |
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Jungle |
Tiger Ranch is the private cottage where the unit of the movie stayed for almost a month. |
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Billu |
A remake of the hugely successful Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol |
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Virasat |
Story was written by Kamal Hasan and was originally done in Tamil with Kamal Hasan in the lead - titled "Thevar Magan" |
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Maine Pyaar Kiya |
The track Antakshri was a medley of various Bollywood songs based on the Antakshari game, which was popularized with this film's release. |
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Hum Aapke Hai Kaun |
The film ran for 206 minutes and had 14 songs! |
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Kaal |
The tigers in the movie were the tigers that were used in the English movie "Gladiator" |
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Sadma |
This is a remake of the hugely successful Tamil movie of the same star cast "Moondram Pirai" |
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Paap |
The first Bollywood film to premiere at the Kara Film Festival in Karachi, Pakistan. |
