September 24 is celebrated as World Bollywood Day all over the world, and with more than 1.2 billion fans it is one of the largest movie industries in the world. Here are eight facts you might not know about Bollywood:
- Lata Mangeshkar won the Guinness World Record for the ‘Most Recorded Artist in History’ in 1991 after recording over 50,000 songs (source: India Today)
- 'Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai' holds the Guinness World Record for the most awards ever won by a movie at 92 awards (source: Times of India)
- Shah Rukh Khan has played characters called Rahul and Raj eight times each in his movies (source: Filmfare)
- Priyanka Chopra became the first Indian born actor to lead an American TV show; Quantico (source: Forbes)
- International artists Diplo, Snoop Dogg, Akon, and Kylie Minogue have all sung for Bollywood movies (source: Times Now)
- Salman Khan has written films like 'Veer' and 'Chandramukhi' (source: Filmfare)
- Aamir Khan can solve a rubiks cube in 36 seconds (source: Deccan Herrald)
- Amitabh Bachchan was the first Asian actor to have a wax statue at the Madame Tussauds London (source: Wion News)
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