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• Lagan made 10% of the collections what gadar ek prem katha made • Anshu: the girl who acted in nag's Manmadhudu was doing her 10std in London at that time. • The first Dada Saheb Phalke award was given to Devika Rani. • Venkatesh did his MBA in los angeles • No actor other than jagapathi babu and mohan babu were invited for sondarya's wedding in B'lore • Hema malini was about to get married to Jitendra when darmendra went and got her lover back et la Krishna in mahabaratha. • Nanni, which stars Mahesh babu is directed by SJ surya (Kushi Fame) who acting as the hero in the tamil version of Nanni. • Venkatesh never shoots in the month of may. He mostly prefers abroad tours with his family • Nagarjuna never works after 6 pm. If there is night shoot he has to be informed 4 days earlier. • MS narayana's first film with a lengthy role was Pedharayudhu • There are another 4 grandsons of NTR who will be making a debut soon • NTR is planning to build 4 avid theatres, one live dubbing, and a projection theatre also in madhapur. • Manmathudu was shot wholly in Germany barring the scene of Effiel tower • Mr.Srikar Prasad is the only editor who has won 8 national awards till date. He belongs to Hyderbad and this time won it for Mani rathnam's Amrutham • None of the films sponsored by pepsi have never been a hit barring one in tamil, till date • Canning songs abroad is relatively cheaper than canning songs other states in India • Shooting in Bombay is as expensive as shooting in London. • Gracy Singh of Lagaan fame is hardly having any movies to act. There is no takers for her even in Hindi • Director Ragavendra rao's son is doing a Indian English movie "Morning Raga" • Benz car is avoided by many in the film industry becos there is a common faith that it brings bad luck • Amitabh wears a wig and has been so for the past 8 years even in real life. When not wearing a wig, he puts a cap. • Chiranjeevi's Tagore got delayed becos of the severe back problem which the megastar has. • Nag's Shivamani got delayed becos of the knee surgery nag underwent in London • Superstar rajinikanth and pavan kalyan are the only two actors who sold there movies to an abnormal price in the history of south India. Incidentally both their films bombed. • Vijayshanti who announced her retirement from movies recently has accepted another 2 movies. • Jayasudha, the glamour queen of yesterdays has converted to Christianity • Tarun was supposed to marry a upcoming actress but was discouraged from doing so after the intervention of his parents • Allu Arjun's Father producer Allu Arvind was an actor once. • Gangotri starring allu Arjun has crossed Indra's collections in few areas • Tirupati and its surroundings is the second place for films to be shot. First being Hyderabad • Mother Teresa's real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu • Nagarjuna's Son Akhil has taken part in an international race in Malaysia • The human brain is about 85% water. • Disneyland opened in 1955. • The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet. • Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. • Rajanikanth supported BJP candidates faced complete rout in TN • The first movie in South Indian languages is Bhisma Katha produced in Telugu during the first decade of 20th Century. • Father of Telugu Cinema is Raghupati Venkatapathi Naidu garu • The length of first telugu film Bhishma Katha was 2,117 ft • Soundarya is the staunch devotee of Lord Nagendra.She took nominal remunaration for Swetha Naagu. • Anjali Devi's debut movie was Gollabhaama in 1947. She played a vamp role • Original name of T Rajender's son Chimpu (Simbu in Telugu) is Silambarasan. • LV Prasad's birth place is Somavarappaadu in West Godavari district. • The film Harischandra was directed by P Pullaiah in 1935. • Vara Lakshmi played the child artiste in "BalaYogin" in 1936. • P Leela was music director for the movie "Chinnari Papalu" in 1968. • Comedian Raja Babu made his debut with "Samajam" produced by another Comedian Relangi in 1960. • 'Maa Inti Mahalakshmi' was the first film made at Saradhi Studios in Hyderabad. • The yesteryear hit "Pandanti Kaapuram" was produced by the reel-villain and character artiste M Prabhakar Reddy. • Veteran director Vitalacharya was born at Udipi in Karnataka and worked as a caretaker of animals with a circus company. • Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first play at the scenic Devbagh Island in the Arabian Sea, 18 km off Karwar-Goa Sector. • Founder of AVM Studio was MV Meyyappa Chettiyar. • B Saroja Devi played the heroine for NTR in Panduranga Mahathyam released in 1957. • Director KS Prakasa Rao (KRR's father) worked as an Insurance agent in Vijayawada in early 1940s. • Bhanumathi Rama Krishna was the first singer of Thyagaraja Keerthana in "Vara Vikrayam" released in 1939. • Savithri, evergreen beauty of Telugu Screen, was born on December 6, 1936 at Chirravur in Guntur district. • "Alam Ara" was the first Indian movie released in 1931. • Maruthi Talkies was the first theatre in Andhra Pradesh built in 1921 in Vijayawada. • "Bhaktha Prahlada" was the first Telugu talkie released in 1931. • First Telugu film magazine was "Telugu Talkie". • Playback singer Janaki started her career with AVM Studios in 1956. • P Suseela received Best Singer National Award from Govt. of India in 1969. • Pakinti Ammayi" starring Relangi and Savitri was remake of a Bengali film " Parshar Barri". • Soundharya's original name is "Somya". • Ramanaidu's banner Suresh productions was started way back in 1964, that is 37years ago. • Aishwarya's first ever commercial was for Camlin pencils while in 9th grade. • 80 direct films and 80 dubbing films released in the year 2000 • Chiranjeevi 's 9 films continuously played for 100 days in Kakinada from Hitler to 10th being Daddy including Sri manjunadha a dub. • P Suseela received Best Singer National Award from Govt. of India in 1969. • The film Harischandra was directed by P Pullaiah in 1935. • Shivaji Ganesan's original name was Viluppuram Chinnaiah Ganesan • Guduri Seetaram is the father of folk lyrics on Telugu screen. • Between 1931 and 1999, India produced over 30,000 films, which is a world record. The first actor to be paid a lakh of rupees as acting fee was Chandramohan in 1934 for Amrit Manthan, but he died a pauper • Oldtimer Nadira in her heydays had every conceivable car, a Rolls Royce, a Mercedes and the works. She always had at least three cars at the same time and changed them every six months when she tired of them. • Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts. • M F Hussain first started his career as a painter of film hoardings. Actress Durga Khote was portrayed in his first hoarding. • Rekha is very fond of gardening and takes care of her plants personally. She finds gardening therapeutic. • Meena Kumari has six fingers on her left hand. She preferred that it never be seen in any of her scenes and would take great care to ensure that. • Hit of Assembly Rowdy made Mohan Babu the Collection King of Tollywood. • Superstar Krishna canned vital scenes in his movie "Simhasanam" at Mungilpattu and Kotala areas in Chittoor District. • Karunamayudu, starring Vijaychander as Jeasus Christ, was dubbed into the Brazilian in 1981. • Son of Kaikala Sathyanarayana was arrested on charges of drunken driving leading to the death of a scooterist last week • Athreya made his debut as lyricist in the film Deeksha (1951). • Ritu is Mahima Choudhary's real name. Since Subhash Ghai has a penchant for the alphabet 'M', he insisted that she change it for her debut film Pardes. • Late Priya Rajvansh is the only Indian artiste till date to pass out of the Royal Academy of Drama, London. Her picture hangs there in the Hall of Fame. • Film Actress Seema made her debut in the Film Angadi Bomma. • Popular Director Mrinalini Sen directed only 1 film in telugu Oka Voori katha • The Popular Film House Jagapathi Art Productions made only one movie with NT Rama Rao. The Film is entitiled Rama Krishnulu • NT Rama Rao's Sahasavantudu is the first Telugu Movie to be produced outside India and Nepal • Chiru's first movie is Pranam Khareedu. But Punadi Rallu was released first. Actually chiranjeevi acted in this movie, because his friend who was to do that role had not turned up to the shooting • Jai Ma Kali... is a song from Sri Raja Rajeswari in which Saharshranama of the Lordess were referred.. This is the first time that the Sahasranamavali has been featured in a film. • Dongalaveta is a telugu remake of Vinod Khanna and Vidhya Sinha. The Telugu version is played by Krishna and Jayasudha • Chiranjeevi's debue film was Pranam Khareedu released in 1978. Reshma Roy was his first heroiene. She was actually an Oriyya actress. The film is produced by Kranthi Kumar. • Kalivikodi is a highly endangered bird species endemic to Cuddapah and Chittoor districts. • Mallepoolu was a remake of the Hindi film Pyasa. • Kashmira Shah is the only actress in Bollywood whom Salman Khan refers to as his sister. • The nickname of Allu Arjun is Bunny.