Bollywood is an emotion which has a tendency to surprises us always. Here you will get some amazing (Amazing facts about Bollywood) facts regarding Bollywood that nobody has ever heard before.
1. Amitabh Bachchan is so punctual that he used to reach the studio before the gatekeeper and watchman. And yes he used to open the gates of Filmistan Studios himself.
2. In the film “Sholay”, the role of Gabbar Singh was first offered to Danny Denzongpa. Even Amzad Khan was almost eliminated just because the scriptwriter Javed Akhter found his voice very poor
- In the history of Bollywood, Amir Khan’s ‘Lagan’ is the only movie where the maximum number of British actors had played.
- Dilip Kumar, who is known as ‘Tragedy King’, got the role of Sharif Ali in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ but he declined. Egyptian actor Omar Sharif bagged that role.
- Bollywood makes around 1000 films in every year that is almost twice the output of Hollywood.
- Shreya Ghoshal was first spotted by Sanjay Lila Bhansali’s mother in a reality show. Then she got the chance to sing “Bairi Piya” in ‘Devdas’ and the rest is history.
- Amir Khan, the perfectionist of Bollywood’s ‘Ghajini’ was the first movie which reached 100 crores, ‘3 Idiots’ was the first movie (Amazing facts about Bollywood) which reached 200 crores and PK was the first movie which reached 300 crores.