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A QUIZ ON BOLLYWOODQMs: Sajal Kumar and Arif

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1. What is the claim to fame of this movie?

AnsRajnikanthHis first Hindi movie

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Seorita from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Name the three Hindi singers .

(The Spanish singer is a flamenco singer named Maria del Mar Fernndez)

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AnsFarhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol

3What is the claim to fame of the film Ram Rajya?

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AnsOnly film that Gandhi was supposed to have watched!

4Mother India was the last film before Lagaan to be shot with ___ which means that the sound was recorded on location during shooting unlike films in which dubbed sound is used.What is the technique called?

AnsSync Sound

5.Connect the two movies

AnsThe Greatest Story ever told is the movieTagline of Sholay

6What did this poster of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) inspire in Bollywood?

AnsInspiration for Dev D Poster

7Himansu Rai, the founder of Bombay Talkies asked Franz Osten (director of The Light of Asia) to give X a test.Mr. Ganguly do you act on stage?No. SirDo you sing?Yes. Mr. Osten. I can sing.X then sang a classical Bhajan

It was reported that Osten did not say anything and asked him to take a screen test. After the test, Osten told Rai, No, Mr. Rai, not goodThen Osten told X , You have a square jaw, you look too young and girlish.

Whos X?

AnsAshok Kumar Ganguly

8His wife had this to say, We both went to see the cinema in an illuminated tent on Sandhurst RoadIt was called the American-India CinematographIt was Christmas 1911The main picture of that day was The Life of Christ. People were weeping on seeing the sufferings of Christ and the crucifixion. The film was coloured in the Kinemacolour process. On the way back, X said, Like the life of Christ, we shall make pictures about Rama and Krishna .Who is X ( a famous Indian director)?(His first short film is about the growth of a pea tree entitled , Birth of a Pea Plant !)

AnsDhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke)Raja Harishchandra fame!

9X was the son of the Raja of Gauripur, Assam and born in 1903.He was also considered to be an excellent horseman, marksman, dancer, tennis and billiard player. He had already bagged several dozen tigers and countless boars in the jungles of Assam.However he is renowned for his direction of the classic 1935 movie Y which was made first in Bengali and then in Hindi.

AnsX Pramathesh Chandra Barua (P.C. Barua)Y- Devdas

10X was known as the Father of Hindi film singing. When Talat Mehmood, a celebrated singer himself, was asked who had inspired him on singing, he replied , Oh, X , easily. It was unbelievable how effortlessly he sang, with such talaffuz (pronunciation), a beautiful throw of voice and depth of feeling. What voice control! It used to make my hair stand on end listening to him. I could never touch him

AnsKundanlal Saigal ( KL Saigal)

11The first public screening of this film was held in Bhuj ( District HQ of Kutch).This was because of the films leading actors promise to the actors and villagers of Kotai.The film?

AnsLagaan (Kotai is the village near Champaner)

12X was born as Mary Evans to a Greek mother and a Scottish father. She was a blonde and her role often involved beating up Indian men and lot of stunts. She was famous for her role in the movie Hunterwali directed by Y .X was also know by a screen name __ ___Also ,identify the director of Hunterwali , whose surname rhymes with the screen name of Mary Evans.

AnsX Fearless NadiaY- Homi Wadia

13This singers career in Bollywood lasted just five years.The owner of a movie studio in Calcutta, Rai Bahadur Seth Dalsukh Karnani once asked Naseer, the manager of Corinthian Theatre to go to the Punjab and return with some girls. So, he returned with some 15-20 of them. These included the singer and some of her sisters . They were collectively known as Punjab Mail.Lata Mangeshkar arrived in Bombay at the same time as this singer and was also about the same age. However, this singers departure from India was a huge boon for the flight of Lata Mangeshkars career. And they remained friends later.Identify the singer.

AnsNur Jehan (Noor Jahan)

14The Soviet Union is said to have a massive distribution of X, dubbed it into a number of its languages. Prints were flown in to the Soviet Expeditions near the North PoleBands played ___ at airports. X is reported to have been a favourite film of Mao Tse Tung-The Indian FilmEven Alexander Solzhenitsyns Cancer Ward had a reference to it. Suddenly she flung out her arms, her whole body writhing to the urge of a popular song she began singing from a recent Indian film.X?

AnsAwara

15X wrote a pleading letter to Nehru during the period of severe foreign exchange shortage , Our picture , (by our I mean picture belongs to our great country), has been selected as one of the five best pictures. You know I am pure a swadeshi producer without any English education, and I badly need the help and support of our nations representatives in America. Like other international producers, I should be able to show that our government is also backing me. Otherwise, I will look small and lonely.

The movie in question, Y was defeated by Federico Fellinis , Nights of Cabiria, by just one voteIdentify X and Y

AnsX Mehboob KhanY- Mother India (1958 Oscars)

16Once the Guinness Book of World Records listed X as having sung the most ever songs in the world : 30000 recordings. Not satisfied with this fact, Y wrote to Guinness mentioning the fact that he had started earlier than X and so must have sung more! Finally, when the dispute was resolved in 1989, surprisingly, they declared Z to be the real winner, who had sung 7500 songs by 1989.X, Y and Z?

AnsX- Lata MangeshkarY- Mohammed RafiZ- Asha Bhosle

17During the 1940s , many comedians in Bollywood modelled themselves to Hollywood greats.There were these actors Manohar Janadhan Dikshit who weighed around 220lbs and the slim Nazir Mohammed Ghory. They acted till 1947 when Ghory migrated to PakistanHow were they better known as- The Indian _____?

AnsThe Indian Laurel and Hardy

18. Claim to fame of this movie?

AnsBertrand Russels only cameo in a feature film

19X played in Hollywood movies like Lawrence of Arabia and Death on the Nile. X and Mehmood teamed up in Namasteji Indias first feature-length comedyMoreover they also acted in some movies which incorporated their names in the titles like- ___ Mehmood in Goa and ___ Mehmood in Hong Kong

Who is X?

AnsI. S Johardelivering dry sardonic dialogue tinged with cynicism and accompanied by a raised eyebrow

20She was for some time known as the poor mans Zeenat AmanIn 1976, she was in the cover of Time magazine dressed in lingerie and posing like a 1930s Hollywood screen goddessWhen she quit movies in 1980, Shobhaa De wrote, she now existed in a delusionary world, eating up to forty egg whites and raw lettuce a day, writing reams and reams about Amitabh Bachchans plans to eliminate herWho?

AnsParveen Babi

21In 1927, the Cinematograph Committee had asked X to complete its questionnaire. X refused telling, But even to an outsider the evil it has and is doing is patent. The good, if it has done any at all, remains to be proved.In 1939, KA Abbas had written to X , Give this little toy of ours, the cinema, which is not so useless as it looks, a little of your attention and bless it with a smile of tolerance. X again refused!X?

AnsGandhi!

22His music was used in Hollywood films like Lord of War (2005, starring Nicholas Cage) and Inside man( Spike Lee, 2006)He also composed music for the Mandarin Chinese movie Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian Di Ying Xiong) in 2003Howard Lee, an actor described his music as Gobbledy-gobbledy-gobbledy-gookWhos he?

AnsAllah Rakha Rahman

23The romance between X and Y is a well- known episode in Bollywood.There was a story which went, When X and Y shot romantic sequences, he paid the light boys to make mistakes so that he could embrace her again and again. X and the light boys had a perfectly worked-out code language - when he pulled his ear, the light boys would make a mistake- mess up the trolley or make a reflector fall- but when he touched his nose they okayed the shotThe couple?

AnsX- DharmendraY- Hema Malini

24Which is the only film in which Dilip Kumar played a Muslim?

AnsMughal-e-Azam ! (as Prince Salim-later Emperor Jehangir)

25X had the following to say of the English band Y , People say that the Y are a fad. But I dont think soIf you listen to the Y properly, you get a feel of old Roman music. Sometimes, you get a feel of Indian music, sometimes you get a feel of Assamese folk songs. On the face value you may feel it is a bad thing but, no, there is inner soul to the Y music. Moreover they are more experimentalX and Y?

AnsX- Lata MangeshkarY- Beatles

26Which film magazine in India is said to be modelled on the American magazine Photoplay?

AnsStardust

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