Did you know;
1) lata mangeskhar has never playbacked for o.p.nayyar.
2) laxmikant pyarelal was assistant to kalyanji anandji before hitting big with parasmani in 1964.
3) rajesh khanna was to star as james bond in bollywood take on the super spy in 70's before indian proucers were threatened with copyright infringement by albert r.broccoli
copyright holders for 007.
4) Zahira was the first indian actress to appear as a bond girl in, on her majesty's secret service (1969).
5) amitabh's don is based on china town (1963) starring shammi kapoor & helen.
6) sadhna was the first female star to make her directorial
debut in 70's with geeta mera naam (sunil dutt & feroz khan).
7) before hema malini, dharmendra had a torrid affair with late meena kumari.they appeared together in about half a dozen movies in 60's.
raj kumar replaced dharmendra in pakeezah.
9) mahmood gave r.d.burman his first big break in chotte nawab (1962).
10) waheeda rehman replaced vyjantimala in ram aur shyam.

more oldies titbits later.

lakeshore

contd.

11.) That Lata Mangeshkar had boycotted Shanker Jaikishen, after they made her sing.."Buddha Mil gaya" in Sangam (which she thought was provocative !)

12.) Lata has sung only 1 cabaret number - Aa Jane Jaan

13.) That Pran was supposed to have played the role of the Pathan in..SHOR, but which Premnath played instead. As a result of which Pran was on the boycott list of Manoj Kumar

14.) That Koi Humdum Na raha, Koi Sahara number ( which was sung by Kishore Kumar) , was actually sung by Ashok Kumar, many years earlier !

great, this what teamwork is all about. The list continues;

15) Before moving on to starring with A list co-stars Mumtaz'
leading man was Dara Singh in Hercules, Samson, Faulad, Sikander-E-Azam,Rustom Soharb etc.
16) Hema Malini bowed out of Shaan because Ramesh Sippy didn't include Dharmendra in the cast.
17) Amitabh was originally cast as Jaya's brother in Guddi.
18) once it was rumored that Sanjeev Kumar proposed to Hema.
19) First on screen kiss in a Bollywood movie was between Zeenat & Shashi Kapoor (Satyam Shivam Sundram). But during British rule in India some movies produced in early 40's did have on screen kissing.
20) Jaylalitha the political figure of south india once did a hindi movie called Izzat with Dharmendra.

lakeshore

With a little helping hand from a friend correction for #12
some more cabaret songs by Lata;
21) mera naam hai jamila,filmed on helen for night in london,
jeenewale jhoom ke ,filmed on helen for vasna,mera naam rita kristina filmed on saira banu for april fool, intaqam had two cabaret numbers one already listed by sk,aa jaane jaan and the other is mehfil sooye both filmed on helen

22) After Madan Mohan's death, his son replaced the OSTs of all his songs with the quality enhanced. He took those songs from the film source material added stereo effects and unleashed them

23) Lata fought with Shankar when he was tongue-tied before the debutante singer Sharda who was hoarse, but beautiful. On Shankar's giving Sharda a chance to sing, Lata commented "Pyar Andha Hi Nahin, Behara Bho Hota Hai"

24) Manna Dey, during the 60s had only chances to sing for side actors because of the popular duos :
Kishore-Dev Anand
Mukesh-RK
And Rafi-Shammi
Manna had no specific actor to sing for.

First kising scene, post independence was in "Johar Mehmood In Goa". Sonia Sahni and I S Johar. 1960s

And let's not forget that Sangam 1964 also had a short kissing scene between two French actors in the Eiffel Tower scene.

Lol!!

23) During the final recording of the song 'Piya Piya Piya Mera Jiya Pukare' from Baap Re Baap (1955), Asha Bhosle accidentally sang into Kishore Kumar's line. Kidhore then indicated from his hand that it's ok and he sang his part. After the recording, Asha apologized and suggested to record it again. But Kishore coolly said that since he was the actor in the film, he said that he'd cover the actresses mouth when that accidental part comes.

24. Salman Khan is the highest paid Bollywood actor followed by Amir Khan, Sharuk Khan is No 3
25. Karan Johar who is Sharuk Khan's best friend is dying to work with Salman Khan

Who stopped him?? Go ahead!! Either care about yourself or your friend.

Duplicate post

http://bollywood.celebden.com/2012/09/2 ... lman-khan/
http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/ ... alman-khan

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Nopes

26. Shah Rukh Khan not approached for Bhansali's 'Bajirao Mastani'