1. Mithun Chakraborty was a hard Naxalite before he joined the film industry. It was after the death of his brother in an unfortunate accident that he quit. He had even done a movie named The Naxalite by K. A. Abbas.
2. Mithun Chakraborty was a wrestler in his younger days. In 1967, he won the West Bengal State Wrestling Championship in the Junior Category.en made based on Chakraborty.
3. He had got a massive fan following in Russia. There, he has been worshipped by his fans to the extent that in an interview, Mithun once claimed that he sometimes feels he must have got great association with the country in his last birth.