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3 unusual facts about A Fish Called Wanda


A Fish Called Wanda

During his various attempts to kill her, Ken accidentally kills off her three Yorkshire Terriers one by one.

They bring in two Americans to help: a con artist, Wanda Gershwitz, and "weapons man" Otto West, an Anglophobe who fancies himself an intellectual.

Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav

The title, which comprises the names of the four lead characters, is meant to be a pun on Laloo Prasad Yadav, an Indian Politician.Its an Unofficial copy of the 1988 Hollywood movie A Fish Called Wanda.


Cynthia Cleese

The daughter of British actor John Cleese and American actress Connie Booth, she is best known for A Fish Called Wanda, where she played daughter Portia to Cleese's character Archie Leach.

Flying Dagger

Among the sources of the music are "The Attack" from Quigley Down Under by Basil Poledouris as the theme for the Hon Brothers, the main theme from A Fish Called Wanda by John Du Prez as the theme for the Fung sisters, as well as music from Jay Chattaway's Maniac, Alan Silvestri's Death Becomes Her, and David Newman's Heathers, among others.

Road roller

At the end of A Fish Called Wanda, Ken (Michael Palin) gets his revenge on Otto (Kevin Kline) at Heathrow Airport, in a scene involving a small diesel roller and some wet concrete.


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