The globally acclaimed actor Omar Sharif, who acted in films like Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Mackenna’s Gold (1969), was quite a prolific bridge player. Omar Sharif was attracted to the card game of bridge when he was 21 years old. In 1964, he was the captain of the United Arab Republic team…
Two members of the Cricket World Cup 1983 winning team had acted in the film, Kabhi Ajnabi The, Sandip Patil as the hero and Syed Kirmani as the villain.
In the Hindi film Benaam, the name of the character played by Amitabh Bachchan was ‘Amit Srivastava’, which is his real name. ‘Bachchan’ was the title taken by his father, Harivansh Rai, and Srivastava is their original family surname.
Terence Steven McQueen was a famous Hollywood actor and director known for the famous films such as Magnificent Seven and Towering Inferno. He had a horrible childhood. Steve McQueen was dyslexic, partially deaf as a result of childhood ear infection and he was the son of an allegedly rebellious alcoholic lady of questionable character. His…
During the war, Dev Anand worked as a censor where he read hundreds of letters daily to edit out passages that were unwanted by the government. He used to get quite excited by the fan letters the filmstars used to get and dreamt of getting some letters like that for himself. It indeed became a…
