Movies - Did You Know?
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Did you know? |
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127 Hours |
127 Hours is the true story of 27-year old, mountaineer Aron Ralston, who, in 2003, worked tirelessly to free himself from an 800lb. boulder that pinned his arm against the wall of a narrow slot canyon in Blue John Canyon in southeastern Utah. His amazing escape eventually led to cutting off his arm after 5 days, squeezing through a tight slot canyon, rappelling down a 70 foot cliff, and continuing on for 6 miles through the canyon where he eventually found help. Even after the incident, Aron continues to be a climber and canyoneer and now runs the 'Aron Ralston Mountain Services' company. Ralston had climbed alone before plenty of times. He had scaled all 59 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, 45 of them solo in winter, and this outing was a warm-up for an ascent of North America's highest mountain, 20,320-foot tall Mount McKinley. |
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15, Park Avenue |
15, Park Avenue is the first Indian movie to be shot in Bhutan. |
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3 Idiots |
Many people in Ladakh believe that the character of Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad, later Phungsuk Wangdoo, in the film 3 Idiots was loosely based on Sonam Wangchuk, a founding member of the Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (Secmol). |
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36 China Town |
Director’s Abbas-Mastan and writer Shyam Goel did not reveal the murderer’s identity in the film to any of the actors, until the actual shoot of the scene. Right from the narration of the film, to the shooting of the scene, nobody, including the actor who played the murderer, was aware of exactly what would happen in the climax. Remake of the movie "Once upon a crime" |
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7 Aum Arivu |
According to history, Bodhidharma was one of the 8 people sent from Tamil Nadu to China. Several controversies surrounded the making of this movie with historians rubbishing all the facts. |
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Aashiqui |
The film received huge success mainly due to its music. |
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Accident |
The climax of the movie had the journalist killing the politician in his own courtyard. The movie was about to be released after the Censor Board cleared it. However on the same day, Indira Gandhi was assassinated. In the wake of this situation, the movie's climax which was a dangerous co-incidence with the assassination, had to be changed. This movie was one of Shankar Nag's fantastic movies as a director. |
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Agent Vinod |
1. This movie is Saif Ali Khan's first movie as a producer. 2. Saif Ali Khan's penchant for comics has resulted Agent Vinod's foray into the graphic novel realm - The Jungfrau Encounter. There's been a predecessor to this, remember Hum Tum (http://www.filmapia.com/published/movies/h/hum-tum)? |
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Agneepath |
A remake of the hugely successful 1990 movie of the same name with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead. Agneepath of Amitabh fame had acquired cult-status, wherein this 2012 remake also made decent business. |
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Anuranan |
The director insists that Mt. Kanchenjunga is not just another exotic locale in his movie, but plays a character itself. Anirudha explains that nature like humans have distinct characters – and it influences the characters in his movie with its mystic charm. Under the suns ray as she changes her hues the other characters resonate with her. |
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Apocalypto |
The film features a cast of Mexicans, Mayas, and some other Native Americans. Mel Gibson chose a cast of actors who were from Mexico City and the Yucatán, or who were descendants of indigenous people of Canada and the United States. In Apocalypto, the dialogue is entirely in the Yucatec Maya language. In April 2005, Gibson visited El Mirador in Guatemala, possibly the largest Mayan site yet discovered and donated $500,000 towards its study project. Mel Gibson wanted Apocalypto to feature sets with actual buildings rather than relying on computer-generated images. Most of the step pyramids seen at the Maya city were models designed by Thomas E. Sanders. Apocalypto is a Greek word for an unveiling or new beginning. |
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Argo |
The city of Tehran was recreated in Los Angeles, USA. About 800 people, many of them Iranian Americans, were brought in from Beverly Hills and other locations to perform as extras. An unused portion of the terminal of the Ontario Internal Airport was dressed with Farsi signage as well as giant posters of then-leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Computer graphics filled in the mountains in the backdrop of the Tehran airport and created a digital 747. |
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Armour of God |
- Jackie Chan was supposed to be Asia's answer to an Indiana Jones kind of adventurer. He is called the Asian Hawk in this movie. |
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Avatar |
The movie has grossed over $2 billion worldwide, the first movie to ever do so. On January 25, 2010, Avatar surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing film of all time, worldwide. Avatar is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film's production. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It won the awards for Art Direction, Cinematography and Visual Effects. |
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Awarapan |
It can be said the movie was the first joint production between India and Pakistan. Remake of the English movie 'A Bittersweet Life' |
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Ayan |
The first Indian movie to shoot in the interior regions of the Kaokoland in Namibia, Africa |
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Bandana |
The movie is based on a Kannada novel written by Usha Navaratnanram. |
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Barfi! |
The Murphy company sent a legal notice to the Barfi makers for using their trademark without their permission |
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Betaab |
The famous singer Sonu Nigam appears in the film as the young Sunny |
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Billu |
A remake of the hugely successful Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol |
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Black |
The first half of the film is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life.The movie is based on the 1962 movie The Miracle Worker, which focuses on Anne Sullivan's struggle to educate Helen Keller. |
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Black & White |
The film's premise does seem to have a slight resemblance to the famous case of a Delhi University professor arrested for his links to terrorists in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament. |
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Black Friday |
Based on "Black Friday - The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts", a book by S. Hussain Zaidi, |
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Blue Umbrella, The |
Based on Ruskin Bond's novel of the same name. |
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Chak De India! |
The media often compared hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi (who faced accusations of throwing the match against Pakistan during the 1982 Asian Games) with the character of Kabir Khan in the media. In response Negi commented that, "this movie is not a documentary of Mir Ranjan Negi's life". Negi joined the production team after his name was suggested by the national coach of the women's team Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, who was with the team when it won the Commonwealth Games' gold in 2002. |