Bollywood Trivia


                                                         

Amitabh Bachchan was the fifth choice for Zanjeer. The first four choices were Dev Anand, Raaj Kumar, Dharmendra and Rajesh Khanna.

Kishore Kumar was the original choice for the title role in Anand.

Between her first marriage to Ganpat Bhosle (with whom she was separated) and second marriage to R.D. Burman (after her break-up with OP), Asha Bhosle was romantically involved with the music director, O.P. Nayyar.

In late 40’s and early 50’s, Suraiya was the highest paid star, and was generating the same hysteria that Rajesh Khanna did in the early 70’s.

Dharmendra saw Suraiya’s film Dillagi 40 times.

At one point in time, Nargis was paid Rs 35,000 per film, while Dilip Kumar was paid Rs 25,000 and Raj Kapoor, Rs 15,000.

Mehboob Khan’s directorial debut film had an unusual title of Al Hilal Judgement of Allah.  

Lata Mangeshkar and Raj Singh Dungarpur shared an intimate relationship.

Shatrughan Sinha very nearly played the role of Jai in Sholay before Ramesh Sippy opted for Amitabh Bachchan.

Kishore Kumar and Yogita Bali (his third wife) divorced within one month of their marriage because he didn’t allow her to use his bathroom.

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar the legendary Indian leg spinner and the late Benazir Bhutto, ex- Prime Minister of Pakistan were both huge fans of Mukesh.

Johnny Walker’s real name was Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi.

The original cast of Mughal-e-Azam was Chandramohan, Nargis and Sapru.

The three Kumars in Saira Banu’s life:  Sanjeev Kumar (he was infatuated by her but she ignored him), Rajendra Kumar (they both were crazy for each other) and Dilip Kumar (her husband).

Anamika Pal (Anu Pal) daughter of Kuljit Pal who produced Arth, and starred in a movie called Aaj, was my classmate, and was once engaged to Akshay Kumar.

What do Hrishitaa Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Sania Mirza, Vidya Balan, Priyanka Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha, Anushka Sharma, Bipashaa Basu, and Nargis Fakhri have in common? -  SHAHID KAPOOR. They all were romantically linked with him.

Nadira’s real name was Farah Ezekiel. She was a Jew of Iraqi origin.

Simi Garewal had an affair with Salman Taseer, a Pakistani businessman and later Governor of Pakistan, who was assassinated in 2011.

Kajol’s grandmother Shobhana Samarth (after her divorce) had a 10- year live-in relationship with Motilal Rajvansh.

NZ

13.8.2019

Comments

  1. saiyid zaidi13 August 2019 at 05:50

    Salman Taseer n Tawleen produced one child who has authored a couple of books.and recently an atrticle in Times abt Modi

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  2. NASIR ZAIDI13 August 2019 at 05:53

    Aatish Taseer is the son's name, if I recall correctly.

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  3. Deepak Mehra13 August 2019 at 10:20

    Awesome! But you seem to have left yourself out... What if you had joined films? You could have been a good looking actor and a writer as well.

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  4. saiyid zaidi13 August 2019 at 10:24

    this comnent is for Nasir or his father

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