
3. Indians buy 2.7 billion movie tickets annually, the highest in the world. But average ticket prices are among the lowest in the world so revenues are a fraction of Hollywood's.
4. For a country that is obsessed with films, there are still very few cinema screens. India has fewer than 13,000 screens compared with nearly 40,000 screens in the US.
5. Did you know that 10 National Award winners came together for one Bollywood film and the movie in talks is Drishyam, starring Ajay Devgan and Shriya Saran.



9. 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' has run at a Mumbai cinema for around 1000 undeterred weeks. As of 2018, over 20 years after its first release, it is still being shown at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai.
10. Well, renowned Tamil actress Manorama acted in approximately 1000 films and she received Guinness World Record for that.

12. Waheeda Rahman played both mother and lover to Amitabh Bachchan. She played the love interest of Big B in ‘Adalat’ (1976) and mother in ‘Trishul’ (1978).
13. Mohammad Rafi, who loved watching boxing, requested the organisers on his tour to Chicago to get him an appointment with Mohammad Ali. Otherwise, a busy man, Ali proceeded to Rafi’s hotel room when he found out that the legendary Indian singer wanted to meet him.

15. During the making of ‘Sholay’, Dharmendra paid the light boys to make mistakes during shots, so that he could embrace Hema Malini again and again.
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