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20 kgs for his role in Laal Singh Chaddha. He also shared that he would be sporting a turban for some segments of the movie.

Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is based on Winston Groom's 1986 novel of the same name. The film went on to win six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Hanks.

WHEN SILENT WAS GOLD: 106 YEARS OF 'RAJA HARISHCHANDRA'

It was 106 years ago this month (3 May to be exact) that Dadasaheb Phalke's Raja Harishchandra released, marking the celebratory beginning of the Indian film industry.

With this film, India's first full-length feature, Phalkeset the pace for the silent era which went on till the 1930s when the talkies emerged, and became regarded as the father of Indian cinema.

Silent cinema may have become rare in today's time, but it hasn't kept the film world away from appreciating its beauty.

Kolkata-based filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri, whose latest works include two silent dramas on social issues - White and Cactus–is a fan.

Cactus will be a part of the film market at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.

Earlier this year, a slew of Indian silent films by Phalke, Baburao Painter, PV Rao, Kalipada Das, Shyam Sundar Agarwal, GP Pawar and Kanjibhai Rathod from the collection of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), were screened in Paris.

Last year, southern filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj experimented with the silent medium with Mercury, a horror thriller movie starring Prabhudheva.

Amit Kumar's 2003 film The Bypass was a short silent film starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Irrfan Khan.

Film historian SMM Ausaja recounts the 1987 Kamal Haasan-starrer Pushpak, about an unemployed young man, as a prominent silent movie in recent history.

"Silent cinema is a universal medium which is not dependent on a language and can transcend to any country. In today's era of talkies, silent is niche. It has become an experimental genre," Ausaja told IANS.

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