- Kabir's
Indian movie SALAAMI (1993) was among the
five biggest hits of that year.
It is apparently a remake of the world-success AN OFFICER AND
A GENTLEMAN.
I'm sure many fans would like to watch that Kabir film!
- A few scenes of Kabir's BEWAFAA (2005)
were shot at Tughlak Road police station in Delhi, India.
The
police station is also featured in Shahrukh Khan's film Veer-Zaara.
It
was built in 1941 and has been classified as a heritage building.
The
station is famous: On January 30, 1948 Nandlal Mehta
barged in at 17:45 to report the assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi. The F.I.R. (abbreviation for the legal
term "First Information Report". This
has to be filed in case of an (alleged) legal offence with
the officer-in-charge at the police station of the concerned
area) with the allocated number #68 is written in Urdu. -
36 years later, the F.I.R. for the assassination of Indira
Gandhi was lodged there, too, including an eyewitness account
written in Hindi.
Both documents are still filed in the station's
archives.
- The
first screen appearance of Kabir's beautiful daughter Pooja
was with her father in the 1991 movie VISHKANYA (1991).
- Some scenes of Kabir's movie
KRANTI (2001) were shot in the Swiss town of
Rorschach, on the banks of Lake Constance.
- Indian comedian Johnny Lever
who has appeared in several of Kabir's films, is known as The
King of Mimicry.
- No
film in Bombay is launched on the 13th of any month as it would
be a bad omen...
- In TAJ MAHAL
(2005), Kabir is portraying the ageing Mughal Emperor
Shah Jahan.
- About 100 workers constructed
massive movie sets for over four months in the centuries-old
Meharangadh fort in Jodhpur for Kabir's movie TAJ MAHAL
(2003).
- A special set has also been
built to recreate the opulence of the TAJ MAHAL's
original interiors: intricate inlay work, emerald-sapphire-crusted
walls and gold and silver doors.
- Shah Jahan's queen Mumtaz Mahal
died giving birth to their 14th child.
It is said that the Emperor's hair turned grey overnight because
he was devastated by her death.
The 17th century marble mausoleum TAJ MAHAL
was built at the height of the Mughals' power to mark the Emperor's
love for his queen.
- The term "Bollywood"
isn't always used affectionately in the Indian film industry,
it can also be used deridingly. It's a well-known fact
that Amitabh Bachchan doesn't like the term "Bollywood".
- India produces more than 1000
movies in 12 languages per year, more than Hollywood or
other movie production
centers.
- About 15 million people visit
Indian cinemas on any given day. (January 2002)
- Not many people know that:
The most popular foreign location for filming Bollywood films
outside India was Scotland - and now is...Switzerland!
About 50 movie crews visit Switzerland every year.
- Will film producer Kabir Bedi, formerly known as "Sandokan
of Mompracem", be yodelling in the snowy Alps in the near
future??? Well, why not?
- The Swiss landscape forms a
spectacular background for a typical Bollywood movie and is
often meant to stand in for the Kashmir region where the security
situation makes it too dangerous to do any filming.
- There is also a "Mollywood"
- the movie industry of Madras in Southern India.
Per year, Madras produces about 125 movies, in the Tamil language.
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