Parinda - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Parinda or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Parinda

[javier]

Fifteen year old Shaan made his playback singing debut by singing one line for "Kitni Hai Pyari Pyari.

[sara]

The theme of "Fanfare For The Common Man " by Orquesta Filamonica De La CiudadDe Mexico & Enrique was used in the title music.

[caroline]

The picture used for Nana Patekar's family (wife and child) was really his wife Neelkanti and son Malhar. The picture was taken of them in 1985.

[jesse]

Scene where Anupam Kher is shot dead was shot at a popular crowded location in Mumbai at Dadar which is known as Kabutarkhana.

[riley]

While shooting the climax scene Nana Patekar had injured himself after contracting with fire he was hospitalized for 2 months and resumed shooting after a year.

[tamara]

The film broke many taboos at the time of its release. It was shot in a realistic style, only two songs were recorded and used in the film, and the ending was kept open purposefully. This influenced a whole generation of filmmakers - most notably Ram Gopal Varma and Mahesh Manjrekar, who made two acclaimed underworld films in their own right - Satya (1998) and Vaastav: The Reality (1999).

[aaron]

Much of the underworld slang in Bombay is borrowed from this film's dialogue.

[russell]

The location for Anna's headquarters in the film was a water tank on Antop Hill, which was spread with the scrap of nearby slum dwellers. Chopra had rented the site from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

[wesley]

Debut film of Shiv Kumar Subramaniam who worked as an actor ,assistant director and screenplay writer for the film.

[amber]

The Central Board of Film Certification gave the film an 'A' (restricted to adults) certificate, due to its depiction of violence.

[melinda]

Due to star dates and the availability of locations, the movie was shot over a period of three years.

[chad]

Climax of the film which has New Year celebration as the background was actually shot on the New Years day.Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapor had plans to celebrate the new year with their respective spouses.The shoot went on for a long spoiling their new year plan.After they packed up early morning Vidhu Vinod Chopra popped up the champagne on the sets to mark the new year.

[kristina]

Vidhu Vinod Chopra cast Nana Patekar after he saw him in a play called Purush.

[cassandra]

The film was promoted with the tagline, "the most powerful film ever made".

[kenneth]

Vidhu Vinod first offered the role of Anna to Anupam Kher. He agreed only to have Vidhu ask him to step out of the role. Vidhu reasoned that Anupam already played the same kind of character and would be repeating himself. Vidhu offered him a smaller role. The real reason was that Vidhu discovered Nana Patekar and was bowled over by his talent. He decided to cast Nana in that role.

[edgar]

This movie won two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and was India's official selection for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was not nominated.

[kristina]

Released on the same day as Mithun Chakraborty's Ladaai.

[phyllis]

Anil made one thing clear to Vinod. That he would have to pay the same price to Jackie that he was paying Anil. Anil knew Jackie was going thru a rough phase and did not want anyone to take of advantage of the fact . But somewhere during the making of Parinda Vinod convinced Jackie to reduce his price to less than half. Anil was not aware of this .Anil got to know about this when Vinod told Anil since Jackie reduced his price, he should do the same. But Anil stuck to his guns. Tezaab was a super hit and Anil knew Vinod was getting a good price for Parinda. So Anil refused to make any compromises.

[leo]

Nana Patekar's character Anna's habit of screaming and slapping his head when he sees fire was copied by Patekar from an identical reaction given by Dustin Hoffman in the movie "Rain Man".