The last few weeks have been a really crazy time. I have had to move houses (and cities) which is a lot of work. I am working on a few posts that I am hoping I am able to finish soon. I am adding more trivia notes from the last few weeks.
2. There are many mirror shots in AK vs AK adding to the meta-theme of the film. There is one shot where Anurag Kashyap is sitting naked in front of a mirror, just like the film that strips the two AKs to reveal and revel in some real facets of their life.
3. There is a voice cameo of Jacqueline Fernandez in AK vs AK.
4. In a promotional video of AK vs AK, Anurag Kashyap reads Hairy Actor and the Chembur of Secrets. Hair actor is (obviously) referring to Anil Kapoor who also lives in Chembur.
5. Men falling (in love).
6. The first and the last meeting in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. Guns. Raas Leela. Ram. Leela. All are there. 
7. The last scene of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and the first scene of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Both are Aditya Chopra's films.
8. I love Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. I love Kiran Nagarkar's Cuckold where Meerabai's husband fights a battle with Krishna to get his wife's love. I love the following lines. 
9. Changing rooms in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Yash Chopra's Dil To Pagal Hai.
12. Some snippets, notes, and deleted scenes from the script of Sriram Raghavan's Andhadhun that did not make it to the final version of the film.
- John Lennon's opening quote and the working title of the film.
- A quote from Manmohan Desai's Parvarish was also supposed to part of the opening lines of the film.
- Manmohan Desai again makes an appearance when Sophie talks of Kismat. Desai also made a film called Kismat in 1968.
- The script mentions 'kismat' again in the ending along with Kishore Kumar's Rafta Rafta from Kahani Kismat Ki.
- Two deleted scenes as given below.
- Note 3 says, "I'd rather Mr. Nasir Husain directs this sequence."
- Other trivia:
13. A terrific frame from Ram Gopal Verma's Satya. When Bhau shoots Bheeku, a copper engraving of the Bhagavad Gita can be seen on the wall.
14. Minty in Luck By Chance could star in The Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives. The title 'Luck By Chance' is spoken in the film only once by her sister Pinky.
15. Madhu Trehan's Newstrack interview with Yakub Memon was recreated in Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday where a young Imtiaz Ali played Memon. The original interview is available here on YouTube.
15. Red and blue in Black Friday.
16. Black Friday is another addition to the thread on the earlier films of Gajraj Rao.
17. The essence of the two songs in Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal (2020) is the same where the lover says it is the presence that makes him realize the absence.
- "Zyada paas aana, hai asal mein door jaana."
- "Yun tera hona bhi aur tanha karta."
18. The cinema is playing S.S. Rajamouli's Baahubali 2 in David Dhawan's Coolie No. 1.
20. Water plays a special role in Ayan Mukerji's Wake Up Sid and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
21. Books In Movies—Virginia Wolf's A Room of One's Own in Renuka Shahane's Tribhanga. 
22. Tanvi Azmi and Kanwaljit Singh reunite in Tribhanga. They also starred in the show Family No. 1.
23. The palette in Tribhanga is blue. All the scenes in the trailer have a shade of blue.
24. A potato fits into any role. Parallel observed in Hardik Mehta's Kaamyaab and Anurag Basu's Ludo.
25. Kalamazoo has been in the news recently as Pfizer's vaccine is manufactured there. There has been one Hindi film that also talks about Kalamazoo—Habib Faisal's Daawat-e-Ishq. Monika Mehta, in the book Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema, writes that this is another sign of film's investment in the 'minor'.
26. I cannot watch Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti again. But I can watch his Delhi-6 again and again. The film refers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's King Kong.
27. Both good and evil are inside us and are mirror images of each other. Mirror-related themes in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Aks and Delhi-6.
28. Ranbir Kapoor's upcoming film is Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal. Ranbir has been called an animal in Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar and Tamasha as well.
Rockstar: "Yeh bada jaanwar hai..yeh aapke chote se pinjre mai nahi samayega. Yeh apni alag duniya banayega."
Tamasha: "Tum toh nadi me muh dalke pani peete ho jaanwar ki tarah."
29. The parallels between Viren in Yash Chopra's Lamhe and Sid in Farhan Akhtar's Dil Chahta Hai.30. The beautiful Aur Kya from Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani recreates the stairs from Peter Weir's The Truman Show.
Other Reading:
1) Trivia Post 18—Link
2) Trivia Post 17—Link
3) Trivia Post 16—Link
4) Trivia Post 15—Link
5) Trivia Post 14—Link
Dialogue of the Day:
"Yahaan nalon mein pani ho na ho, aankhon mein hamesha savan rehta hai."
—Roshan, Delhi-6
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