Director Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

Plot Adapted from the Mario Puzo classic, the film explores the Italian mafia moves in America through the Corleone family.

l To make Don Corleone look like a ?bulldog?, Brando wore a special appliance made by a dentist inside his mouth. It is still on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

l Warren Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Ryan O?Neal, Martin Sheen and Robert Redford were considered before Pacino was picked for Michael.

l Author Puzo and director Coppola never used the word ?mafia? in the screenplay.

l The name of the traditional Sicilian hat worn by some of the extras in the film is ?coppola?.

l The famous score by Nino Rota is a re-working of his music in Fortunella. So he couldn?t get an Oscar nod.

Director Ram Gopal Varma

Cast Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay

Plot A tribute to The Godfather, Varma places his plot bang in the middle of the Indian political set-up.

l The Godfather has already been tried on the Indian screen in Feroze Khan?s Dharmatma.

l In Agneepath, Amitabh had tried the husky Brando voice of Godfather.

l Varma was supposed to work with Amitabh for the first time in a film called Ek, which got shelved.

l Unlike Coppola, Varma has no plans to make a sequel or a prequel to Sarkar.

l Varma has watched The Godfather only four times but read the Puzo book quite a few times.