DDLJ

DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge) was a blockbuster having superhit songs, awesome locations, great story. It had all masala in balance comedy, romance, Masti, songs etc. Actor selection for each role was perfect.
1. Shah Rukh Khan dropped Kajol at the end of 'Rukh Jaa O Dil Deewane, following director Aditya Chopra's instruction. The director did not tell Kajol about it to capture her reaction, this scene became awesome.
2. Aditya Chopra named Shah Rukh Khan's character Raj after Raj Kapoor
3. Popular filmmaker Karan Johar made his acting debut with 'DDLJ'
4. Delected scenes of DDLJ  www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDrReGMJWY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvB23sDkJG4
5. This movie ran 1000 weeks in theaters
6. Saif Ali Khan turned down the role of Raj Malhotra after which the role was offered to Shah Rukh Khan


Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was ranked by Indiatimes Movies among the "25 Must See Bollywood Films". It was one of two Hindi films in the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" list along with Mother India. It was also placed twelfth on the British Film Institute's list of the top Indian films of all time. The film was declared an all-time blockbuster and it remains as the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema. As of 2014, it is still playing at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai, after 1000 weeks

  

GOLMAAL (1979)

Golmaal is a 1979 Bollywood comedy movie directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film till now remains as popular and favorite among the audiences as it used to be and is regarded as one of the finest comedy films of Indian Cinema.
Interesting facts
1. Utpal dutt (Bhavani Shankar in the movie) was a begger in real life before coming to Bollywood
2. Gulzar's career as a lyricist began with Mukherjee's Bandini.
3. It would NOT be wrong to call this film the 'Sholay of Bollywood comedies'.
4. Link for movie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibrG5b-IpU
5. Rekha was the original choice for Bindiya's role. But Hrishida later thought that her glamour would negate the excellent comedy script.

 6. Amol Palekar initially wanted to reject the role since Hrishida never revealed his script before shooting started and Amol never signed without hearing any script.
7 . Utpal Dutt was a very serious person in real life. During the shooting he would keep to himself often reading a book.

5. Dina Pathak actually went through the bathroom window in the scene, though she got stuck for a while due to her high heels.

6. Amol Palekar would make faces at Bindiya behind the camera during the shooting of 'Aanewala Pal' thereby making it difficult for her to put on a serious face when the camera faced her.


Story (Taken from Wikipedia with Thanx)
Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma (Amol Palekar) is looking for a better paying job. He and his sister Ratna (Manju Singh) have no relatives or acquaintances except Dr. Kedar (David). Dr.Kedar tells him about Bhavani Shankar's (Utpal Dutt) firm known as Urmila Traders. Shankar is a man of traditional values, hence he naturally hates youth wearing modern clothes. He is a sports fan, but thinks lowly of youth knowing anything about sports. But his most weird trait is hatred towards men without moustaches. He thinks that men without moustaches are characterless.
Ramprasad has a moustache. He takes care of other problems by wearing kurta & feigning ignorance about sports. Bhavani hires him immediately. Ram is a hardworking guy, so Bhavani (& Ram) have no problems. However, Ram once takes leave by pretending that his mother (who died many years ago) has taken ill, and goes to watch a hockey match. Bhavani Shankar, who also attended the match, sees him there.
The next day Bhavani summons Ramprasad to his office and asks him about the Hockey match. Remembering the plot of a movie a friend of his is shooting, Ram convinces Bhavani Shankar that he had seen his "moustache-less" identical twin Lucky (alias Lakshmanprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma) at the stadium.
Bhavani Shankar buys his argument & feels bad about accusing him and decides to make amends by hiring Lucky to teach his daughter Urmila (Bindiya Goswami) music. Ramprasad reluctantly shaves his moustache to become Lucky and starts to teach music to Urmila. He is helped by his actor friend Deven Verma (playing himself).
Now Urmila aka Urmi is the exact opposite of her father. She takes immediate liking to Lucky, while Ram is barely noticed by her. Bhavani notices this & gives Ram another job to tutor on the pretext of her exams. Meanwhile, Mrs. Srivastav (Dina Pathak), a socialite, is roped to play the part of Ram, "Lakshman" & Ratna's mother. Like Ram, she also ends up playing her own twin in front of Bhavani.
Ram decides to tell Urmila the truth. Urmila tells him to tell the truth to Bhavani as well. Ram goes to Bhavani to tell the truth, but Bhavani sees Ram's moustache giving away. Bhavani exposes Ram, but ends up thinking that Lucky murdered Ram & impersonated him to marry Urmila.
In a hilarious chase that follows, Bhavani ends up totalling a police jeep. The Senior Inspector (Om Prakash) mistakes him for a thug named Pascal D'Costa & is about to lock him up in the jail. Only when his Inspector identifies Bhavani Shankar by his real identity is he freed. By now, a harried Bhavani has developed hatred for twin as well.
On coming home, he finds that Urmila & Lucky are married. He refuses to give them blessings, until Dr.Kedar comes to the scene & explains the whole situation. Now, Bhavani becomes even more furious, but on everybody's insistence, relents. The film ends with a family photo of Mrs.Srivastav, Ratna, Urmila, Ram, Dr.Kedar, Bhavani's sister Kalindi (Shubha Khote) & Bhavani (who is shown without moustache).

SHOLAY

Sholay was a blockbuster, released in 1975 directed by Ramesh Sippy and produced by his father G. P. Sippy. The film follows two criminals, Veeru and Jai (played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan), hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star, as Veeru and Jai's love interests. Sholay is considered a classic and one of the best Indian films. It was ranked first in the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.
Here are few interesting facts about movie
1. Two producer/director teams rejected the idea before it found favor with Ramesh Sippy.
2. Though released on August 15 1975, Sholay was launched on 2^nd October 1973. It was released again this year as 3D movie.
3. Some of the characters of Sholay  were based on the writer duos’ friends and acquaintances.
4. There was actually a dacoit named Gabbar Singh in the 1950’s in the Gwalior area; he used to cut off the noses and ears of policemen.
5. The film was the first to enjoy a 25-week run in over 100 cinemas
6. In Minerva theater of Mumbai, Sholay ran for over 5 years uninterrupted.
7.Thakur’s character was originally supposed to be a retired army officer. This was changed to a police officer because the filmmakers thought it would be difficult to get requisite permissions.
8. Amitabh bachchan was interested to play Gabbar singh role but director had chosen Amjad khan. Amjad khan was unable to deliver as per director's expectations initially and was about to be removed from film. He has spoken his dialogues very similar to a Dhobi , residing to his backyard.
9. There was a real life Soorma (after which Jagdeep’s character Soorma Bhopali was named). He was a forest officer from Bhopal; an acquaintance of Jagdeep.
10.  Danny Denzongpa was considered for the role of Gabbar first but he refused the film which was his big mistake. Amjad khan was rockstar after this movie even though he was seen in movie only after intermission.
11. Mac Mohan’s character, Sambha had only one line in the film, but he is still referred to as ‘Sambha’. he accepted in interview that this was his best role in Bollywood journey
12. Shatrughan Sinha was initially considered for the role of Jai.
13. Amitabh bachchan was included in the movie by recommendation of Dharmendra which made Amitabh superstar.
14.Dharmendra wanted to play the role of Thakur initially, but settled on playing Veeru when he found out that he was to be paired with Hema Malini. Sanjeev kumar was also interested in Hema malini so Dharmendra was scared about pairing him with Hema.
15. Deleted scenes of Sholay 
a. Gabbar kills Sachin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OKFoG6cgY
b. Thakur kills Gabbar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh_WeoKJkUY
16. Movie was perfect cocktail of comedy, revenge, romance, drama, great songs. Every character i.e. Asrani, Jagdeep, Amjad khan, Sachin, Mac mohan, Kallia etc played long inning in Bollywood.
17. Many bolloywood movies take references from Sholay even now (after 40 years).   

Hindi MURDER MYSTERIES Details

BEST MURDER MYSTERIES

My rating for top 5 is

1. The Stoneman Murders was  released in 2009. Starcast is Kay Kay menon, Virendra saxena, Arbaaz Khan. It was really really tough to guess the murderer till the last moment even though one clue was provided. It was the movie in which I could guess the murderer only one minute before displayed in movie. It was not a hit movie but worth to see for murder mysteries lover. Don't want to reveal the murderer so you can enjoy the movie.

2. Sssshhh... is a 2003 Bollywood horror-thriller film starring Dino Morea, Tanisha and Karan Nath in the lead roles. It was also tough to guess the murderer till the end of the movie but I guessed the murderer 30 minutes before but could not find the logic which was clarified in movie logically. It was worth to see for murder mysteries lover.

3. Khamosh is 1985 Indian thriller directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film starred Naseerudin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Soni Razdan, Pankaj Kapoor. It was nice movie with great speed. It was quite difficult to guess the murderer. Amol palekar has played the murderer which was surprising factor of the movie.

4.Dhund  is produced and directed by B R Chopra. Starcast is Navin Nischol, Zeenat Aman, Danny Denzongpa. It was quite difficult to guess the killer and plot was quite logical. Navin nischol played the role of murderer.

5. Khoj is a 1989 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Keshu Ramsay, starring Rishi Kapoor, Kimi Katkar, Danny and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles. It was quite interesting movie in which Rishi kapoor's wife got murdered while he was out of town. Kimi katkar starts pretending as his wife and his own daughter accepts Kimi as her mother. Rishi Kapoor played role of murderer which was his first villan role.

6. Gumnaam  is a 1965 Indian suspense thriller film directed by Raja Nawathe, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen . It was tough to guess the murderer. I could not guess and was not very convince with the climax but it was enjoyable movie.

7. Humraaz was released in 1967. Starcast is Sunil dutt, Raj kumar Vimi, Madam puri. screen play was great and many suspects were having motive of murder. It was tough to guess the murderer. story was logical. Murderer was madan puri who commits the crime for money.

8. Gupt  is a 1997 Bollywood suspense thriller film, directed by Rajiv Rai. It stars Bobby Deol, Manisha Koirala, Kajol, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and Raj Babbar. Murderer Kajol was surprising factor and was cause of making it hit movie. Overall it was great movie by having good songs, fast screen play.

9. Kanoon is a 1960 Indian Hindi film directed by B.R. Chopra. The film stars Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood. The film was a courtroom drama of a murder case, where the judge's prospective son-in-law (Rajendra Kumar) is the defence lawyer in a case of murder for which he suspects his would-be father-in-law. Rajendra kumar saw his father in law Ashok kumar committing the murder so he was witness himself. Rajendra kumar fights case against his father in law. At last it was revealed that their was a thief similar looking to ashok kumar. This film was made to answer a Hollywood director who told BR chopra that indian can't make murder mysteries.