skip to Main Content

22 Interesting Facts About Bollywood Actors That You May Not Have Heard Before

Therefore, we get to see a Piku on the screen and not Deepika Padukone. For actors then slide into characters, from real to reel. But, the buzz to know the real actor never subsides. 

1. SRK has a phobia of riding horses.

Phobias are quintessential experience of  being human!

2. Waheeda Rahma and Rakhee, both, have played roles of  mother and lover to Amitabh Bachchan.

And nobody questioned it back then?

 3. Sonam Kapoor  worked as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant in Singapore to manage her expenses.


That was some tough parental love, honey.

 4. Rekha wears only crimson or chocolate colored lipstick when making public appearances.

That’s her style quotient, I guess.

5. Hritik Roshan made his acting debut when he was just 6 years old, as an extra in a dance sequence for the movie “Asha”.

So that’s when he became passionately curious about dancing?

6. In the 1990 film ‘Awwal Number’, Dev Anand’s mother (in the photo frame) is Cindy Crawford, an American model.


Gustakhi maaf kardo, jaane bhi do jo  bhi hua!

7. Farhan Akhtar  ventured into Hollywood, when he wrote the lyrics for soundtrack of the film  Bride and Prejudice (2004).

That too, before Pee Cee and Deepika!

8. Nawazuddin Siddiqui did numerous cameos before  making it big, examples, Munna Bhai MBBS, Sarfarosh New York, Dev D, Peepli Live .

Slowly but surely, he did it!

9. Shah Rukh Khan’s least favourite school subject was Hindi, his mother offered to take him to see a Hindi film, if he improved.

Could she see what was coming, already?

10. In  ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’, Karan and Farah  gave a guest appearance together which was left unnoticed by everyone.

Did you see? Even I didn’t.

11. Ranveer Singh’s, original name is  Ranveer Singh Bhavnani and he is Sonam Kapoor’s second cousin.

Tangled Bandhan!

 12. Rajnikanth never said  Enna Rascala .

Mind it.

13. Aamir khan was very good at tennis in his school and played at the national level. He was the champion in the under 12 or 14 group.

And you thought that Nawaz was the only struggler in the B- town.

14. Kareena’s name has been inspired from the book Anna Karenina, Bebo’s mother was  reading, when she was pregnant with Kareena.

Mystery solved, finally!

15. Himesh Reshammiya gave Deepika her first break in a music video titled, ‘Naam Hai Tera’.

Loftiest towers rise from the ground.

16. Amitabh Bachchan is ambidextrous – the ability to use the right and left hands equally well.  

17. Dilip Kumar rejected a lead role in the international project ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) by director David Lean.

Because first comes India…

18. David Dhawan refused to launch Varun in a home production.  Karan Johar took it on himself to launch Varun.

 Karan made man.Lol!

19. Katrina Kaif is the first Indian Actor to have a Barbie Doll modelled on her. The doll was part of a line called “I Can Be.”

Can I be?

20. A 29 Yr old Anupam Kher played a 60 year old in the highly acclaimed movie – Saaransh

21. Sharmila Tagore she became the first Indian actress to appear in a bikini in ‘An Evening in Paris’ (1967). She also posed in a bikini for the Filmfare magazine in 1968.

22. Salman has two fatwas issued by Muslim organisations, the fatwas allege that he contravened the Islamic law that forbids the worship of idols.

Fatwa se darr nahi lagta, saheb.

Also read:

This Post Has 0 Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back To Top