Bollywood Trivia Part:1

1. SRK wasnt the original choice for "Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain?"
   It was 1st offered to BigB, but he didnt liked the concept
2. Pakistani speedstar Shoaib Akhtar was Mahesh Bhatt�s first choice for the title role in Gangster which eventually went to Shiney Ahuja after Shoaib turned it down.
3. Kishore Kumar and his entire unit had decided to wear make-up, with a long beard, at the premiere show of BADHTI KA NAAM DADHI in Mumbai.
4. Salman Khan had played a small role in BIWI HO TO AISI before the hit big time with MAINE PYAR KIYA.
5. Shakti Samanta had initially started PALAY KHAN with Rajesh Khanna. But five years later, he roped in Jackie Shroff for the title role. Also, son Ashim Samanta directed the film eventually.
6. Producers Manoj Desai and Nazir Ahmed [KHUDA GAWAH] had signed Sanjay Gupta to direct their next film, starring Sanjay Dutt in the lead. The film never took off.
7. At a point of time, dacoit films were a favourite with flilm-makers and a majority of those films [20 films] starred Sunil Dutt as a dacoit.
8. As many as 300 labourers were employed to construct a temple set for J.P Dutta�s KSHATRIYA [Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol] in Bikaner. What�s more, the entire construction took a month to be completed.
9. An evergreen song from Raj Kapoor�s BARSAAT was added to the film after it completed 100 weeks in Kolkata.
10. According to a report, Neetu Singh was the busiest heroine in 1975, with as many as 85 film assignments on hand. Most of her films were with Rishi, Randhir and uncle Shashi Kapoor.
11. Tinnu Anand, who had signed been signed to direct a film for P.R. Films in 1979, was presented an imported car instead of the traditional signing amount.
12. Zeenat Aman was born in Germany, studied in Los Angeles. She was Miss Asia and her father was a film writer (Aman).
13. Way back in 1979, actor Mehmood was planning a big-budget fare in 70 mm with not top actors, but 50 character actors heading the cast.