About 1,000 movies are produced in India every year, most of which are produced in Mumbai (called Bollywood), as compared to Hollywood which makes around 600 films annually. Movies of other regional languages are produced mostly in their respective states. Movies made in the languages Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, etc. among others have gained recognition both within and outside their domains.
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.
Moti, the ubiquitous black Labrador of Bollywood, was literally the hero of the film Teri Meherbaniyan as he did matchmaking, shed abundant tears, performed the last rites of his master (Jackie Shroff) and took revenge. Moti single-handedly cared for an infant in Maa when the baby’s mother passed away. Moti has been the part of…
The credit titles of the movie Kuch Naa Kaho were presented innovatively. Kuch Naa Kaho was Rohan Sippy’s directorial debut. The Aishwarya-Abhishek starrer didn’t do much well on the box office. However, the credit titles were presented in quite an innovative manner. The names of the cast and crew appeared on various parts of Abhishek’s…
The Kapoors have a penchant for nicknames ending with ‘o’, and at times with ‘oo’, like Lolo, Bebo, Chintoo, Dabboo and Chimpoo, respectively for Karishma, Kareena, Rishi and Randhir and Rajiv.
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.
