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	There are several unknown facts about our indian music & films, which surprise us & we all are surely interested in stuff like that as music & films is in our veins & we breathe it. Here are some surprising facts, which may be new for the coming generation next :


		The roles of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan were written in to the film “Chupke Chupke”, long after the complete script was ready, because the couple wanted to be the part of the film by their favourite director Hrishikesh Mukherjee.


		In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Guddi”, Amitabh Bachchan was cast as the film’s hero but was later replaced with Bengali actor Samit Bhanja.


		Kamal Amrohi’s Pakeezah took more than 12 years to complete. Ghulam Mohammed, the music director of Pakeezah never lived to see the success of this film, it was sad that he did not get his due in the Hindi Film Industry in spite of brilliant work in films like Mirza Ghalib (1954) and Shama (1961). Kamal Amrohi had approached Dharmendra to play Salim Ahmed Khan’s character which eventually went to Raaj Kumar. Meena Kumari’s not so good health insisted that some of the dance sequences and scenes should be shot without her. Amrohi shot the entire song “Chalo dildaar chalo” without showing her face.


		Dharmendra in his youth was such a big fan of actress Suraiya and Dilip Kumar that he walked miles to watch their films. He saw Suraiya’s “Dillagi” (1949) over & over more than 30 times. And as destiny plays games, after many years Dharmendra acted in a film along with Hema Malini titled “Dillagi” in 1978 and recently both his sons acted in a film with the same title “Dillagi” yet again in their home production in 1999.
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