10 Mind Blowing Movies Facts From Movies of 2016

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Karan Johar wrote Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in just nine days.

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is the first Karan Johar directed movie which did not have Kajol's appearance at all, even though she is considered as his lucky charm.

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is the first movie in which Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and director Karan Johar work together.

Airlift

Airlift is based on the biggest evacuation of Indians that took place in the 1990's Kuwait after Iraq, under the rule of Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait.

Azhar

Akshay Kumar has worked in both of Tony D'souza movies, Blue and Boss, in the lead role. Considering Akshay Kumar his mentor, Tony D'souza gave Akshay special thanks in the beginning of his third movie, Azhar.

Dangal

Dangal's script was first written with Irrfan Khan in mind. However, after the script was ready, it was directly offered to Aamir Khan, hence it never reached Irrfan Khan at all.

Aamir Khan reached out to south superstar Rajinikanth to dub Dangal in Tamil, however, the Thalaivar politely turned it down.

Nitesh Tiwari and Aamir Khan auditioned as many as 3000 girls for the roles of Geeta and Babita Phogat.

Fan

In all of Red Chillies Entertainment's productions starring SRK in the lead, there is always a train sequence in the movie; Chennai Express, Swades, Ra.One, Happy New Year, Dilwale and, now, Fan, all have a train scene.

This is the first SRK movie with not even a single song in it. The song 'Jabra Fan' was used for promotions only.

Fitoor

Rekha was cast in the movie but after she opted out of the film, most of her scenes had to be reshot with Tabu, who replaced her in the movie.

Katrina Kaif had to colour her hair red for the movie, which, reportedly, cost the makers INR 55 lakhs.

Ishq Junoon

Ishq Junoon is India's first mainstream movie to explore the subject of threesome relationships.

Kapoor & Sons

Rishi Kapoor was so upset with Shakun Batra’s approach of working on his role that he walked out twice and even considered leaving the film.

M.S. Dhoni : The Untold Story

Akshay Kumar was keen on playing M. S. Dhoni on-screen but Neeraj Pandey did not think Akshay was the best choice for the role and turned him down.

Some of the sequences were shot in classrooms and fields of M. S. Dhoni’s actual school in Ranchi.

Befikre

Befikre is Aditya Chopra's first directorial venture not starring Shah Rukh Khan.

Ki & Ka

After K3G, which released in 2001, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan shared screen space after fifteen years in Ki & Ka.

Madaari

As a part of the promotions, Irrfan Khan tweeted to Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi asking them to meet him. Arvind Kejriwal even accepted his invitiation. Khan also interviewed Lalu Prasad Yadav for publicity.

Mirzya

In preparation for his role in Mirzya, Harshvardhan Kapoor went to Seattle where he slept, ate and worked with the horses on a ranch; he even took lessons for archery and polo.

Motu Patlu: King Of Kings

Motu Patlu: King Of Kings is apparently a tribute to PM Narendra Modi's Make in India vision.

Neerja

The real hijack took place across 16 hours. Hence, the director Ram Madhvani decided to shoot the hijack section in 16 hours to recreate the incident as it was.

The movie, made on a budget of 12 crores, went on to collect 22 crores within four days of its release.

Parched

Before the critically acclaimed film Parched released in India, a love-making scene featuring Radhika Apte and Adil Hussain was leaked online and was sold as porn in some parts of India.

Pink

While the shooting of Shoojit Sircar’s Pink was going on, Amitabh Bachchan roamed around the streets of Delhi, wearing a costume and nobody recognized him.

Sarbjit

During the shoot of Sarbjit, Randeep Hooda became very close to Daljit Kaur, Sarbjit’s real-life sister. She started considering him her tragically lost brother and asked Hooda to carry her to her death bed.

Sultan

The movie was initially supposed to be titled Dangal but was changed to Sultan later.

Teraa Surroor

Teraa Surroor was initially titled 'Guns N' Roses.'

Udta Punjab

Shahid Kapoor used to drink a dozen cups of coffee every day during the shoot to get high - an attribute his character demanded for his role in Udta Punjab.

Arrival

The original name for the film was Story of Your Life. However, test audiences did not like the title, and therefore, it was changed to Arrival.

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer and director David Villeneuve actually developed an alien language and also created a 'logogram bible' that consists of more than 100 different logograms, of which 71 of the logograms were featured in the movie.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

On asking for advice on how to best play Batman, Bale told Affleck to "make sure you can piss in that suit." The two men met quite by accident in a costume shop, where they were each buying a Batman costume for their kids.

Bridget Jones's Baby

Bridget Jones is the first film franchise to have all women directors.

Cafe Society

Bruce WIllis was fired from the movie after Woody Allen and his team could not keep up with Willis' behavior and his inability to memorize his lines. Steve Carrel was then signed for the part.

Captain America: Civil War

Tom Holland is the youngest person to portray the role of Spider-Man/Peter Parker on screen, at just 19 years old.

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon is based on the 2010 oil rig explosion in the U. S. An oil rig was specially built for the movie, making it the largest set piece ever built.

Hacksaw Ridge

Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge received a nine-minute and 48-second standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, making it the first movie to have received such a response.

Hail, Caesar!

During the filming, George Clooney was actually slapped by Josh Brolin a couple of times. Hence, the reaction shot was, in fact, genuine.

Knight of Cups

The movie was made without a script and the actors improvised all the scenes.

Director Terrence Mallick used the technique of torpedoing while he was filming the movie. This technique implied that the actors were often surprised by the entry of other actors in a scene

thus the method helped capture natural reactions from the actors.

Kung Fu Panda 3

The extra voices when Po talks to the pandas about a game plan are actually given by Angelina Jolie's four children - Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Pax Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt.

La La Land

Since the director of the film, Damien Chazelle, wanted to shoot as per the old musicals' tradition without cuts or edits, Ryan Gosling took piano classes and he completed shooting the scene in a single take on the first day of the shoot.

Moana

In Italy, the movie is named Oceania and its protagonist is Vaiana. This is both for opportunity and copyright reasons as the original name would be easily associated with Moana Pozzi, a famous Italian porn star during the late '80s and early '90s.

Moonlight

There is a scene in the movie where Mahershala Ali is shown teaching Alex R. Hibbert how to swim. However, the two were not entirely acting the scene out since Hibbert does not know how to swim and Mahershala Ali was actually teaching him how to swim.

The BFG

Various writers worked on the script for the BFG over a period of 25 years, after which it finally went into production in 2014 with Steven Spielberg as the director.

In his five-decade-long career as a filmmaker, The BFG marked the first time that Steven Spielberg directed a full-length motion picture for Walt Disney Pictures.

The Conjuring 2

A priest was called on the set on the first day to offer his blessings before the shooting began.

The Jungle Book

Jon Favreau, the director of the movie, intentionally featured Kaa the snake as a female character as he felt there were too many male characters in the movie. However, the original Jungle Book character, Kaa, is a male.

Kabali

Kabali is the first Indian film to be released in Malay language as Rajinikanth has a huge fan base in Malaysia.

Air Asia, a low-budget Malaysian carrier, launched a special aircraft so that the superstar’s fans can watch the film’s premiere in Chennai.

Irudhi Suttru

Ritika Singh, the lead actress of Irudhi Suttru who plays the role of a boxer in the film is a professional boxer in real life.

Theri

For one of the scenes in the film, lead actor Vijay put his life at risk by jumping into water from a height of 100 ft.

Miruthan

During the final editing of the film, six scenes were cut not because they were sexual in nature but to make it less gory.

Thodari

Thodari is the first Tamil movie to be shot entirely in a train.

Sarrainodu

As of December 2016, the song 'Blockbuster' is the costliest ever picturized in Tollywood.

Pellichoopulu

The Spitfire BBQ food truck shown in the movie is an actual food truck in Bangalore, which is the only BBQ food truck in India.

Telugu movies, which always followed conventional ways of dubbing, saw a change with Pellichoopulu. The movie incorporated Sync Sound, which records actual sounds and voices from the set.

The love story of the lead characters was partly based on the lives of owners of the actual Spitfire BBQ food truck in Bangalore.

Soggade Chinni Nayana

The character of 'Ramu' played by Nagarjuna was inspired from the real life character of Umakanth. He was one of the participants on Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, a show hosted by Nagarjuna, who stunned everyone with his unbelievable knowledge.

The watch and dhotis used by Nagarjuna's character Bangarraju in the movie belong to one of the most prolific actors of Telugu film industry and his father, Nageswara Rao.

Premam

The central character Vikram played by Naga Chaitanya is showcased through three stages of his life. To look as a teenager, Naga went on a diet for two months.

Oopiri

The movie is an official remake of the French movie The Intouchables (2011) directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. The roles of Nagarjuna and Karthi were enacted by François Cluzet and Omar Sy in the original.

Nannaku Prematho

This is the first Telugu film to be shot entirely outside India. It was shot extensively in the UK and Spain.

Sairat

Sairat is the first Marathi film that grossed more than 100 crore at the box office.

Rinku Rajguru, who made her debut with the movie Sairat, won a Special Mention at the 63rd National Film Awards.

Both the lead actors, Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru made their debut in the movie. However, before the shooting began, the actors were trained by director Nagraj Manjule for a year.

Natsamrat

Natsamrat is the first Marathi movie to gross INR 50 crores worldwide.

Ventilator

Rajesh Mapuskar, the director, revealed that the idea came to him when one of his family members was put on ventilator.

Initially, though Ashutosh Gowarikar liked the script, he decilned the offer as he was not sure about acting after a gap of 18 years.

Poshter Girl

The legendary Marathi folk singer, Anand Shinde sang professionally for the first time with his son Adarsh Shinde for the song Awaaj Vadhav DJ from the movie.

Bandh Nylon Che

Mahesh Manjeraker and his wife Medha Manjerakar acted together for the first time in the movie.