This movie was considered a reformist period master-piece. Directed by Franz Osten, it talked about the social position of Dalit girls in India.

The movie stars X (who was cast after the original hero had eloped with the producer's wife and leading lady) and Y (the producer's wife who decided to come back) in the lead roles. It was released in 1936 and was one of the earliest several successful Bombay.

Talkies collaborationsbetween Franz Osten, Niranjan Pal, Himanshu Rai, and their leading lady. Name the movie?

Acchut Kanya

This movie is based on a book, which was the third in a series of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy : The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), __ ____________ (1990) and White Jazz (1992).

Inspite of being nominated for 9 Oscars, it won just 2 because of “Titanic”. The best supporting actress award, which this movie won at the Oscars, was shared by both these movies at the “Screen Actors Guild Awards”! It was also ranked the best film of 1997 by TIME Magazine!

Hint:The initial screenplay drafts for the movie “Street Kings” were also written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s.

L.A. Confidential

Released in 1994, this film is perhaps the Frenchiest hitman thriller ever to take place on the streets of New York. The hero is all Gallic cool as a simple- minded assassin and Mathilda (in her movie debut) is heartbreaking as the teen who falls in love with him.

Trivia: During the filming involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the "police" and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras!

Name the movie?

Leon:The Professional

A working title, sometimes called a production title, is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development, usually used in filmmaking, television production, novel, video game, or music album. It is a practice by which a high-profile film or television series is given a fake working title to keep its production a secret, and to prevent price gouging by suppliers.

Which movie had the following working title:

Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th

Scary Movie

The role was originally going to be filled by a stand-in, until casting director Robin Gurland came across X, who bore a striking resemblance to Y. X played the role of Y’s body double and decoy. X’s role was kept quiet by the movie’s marketing department in order to heighten the surprise of there being a decoy when the film was released. The costumes were specifically designed to hide any height and shape differences between X and Y.

X-Keira Knightley (Sabé)Y-Natalie Portman (

Queen Padmé Amidala)

Not happy with the roles being offered to him, X became a self-taught professional carpentar to support his then-wife and two small sons. He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of director Y, who subsequently cast him in a pivotal supporting role for his film American Graffiti (1973).

X's relationship with Y affected his career later on. After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired X to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named “Y”. X and Y.

X-Harrison FordY-George Lucas

"Cardio"

"Double tap"

"Beware of bathrooms"

"Wear seatbelts"

"Cast iron skillet"

"Travel light"

"Get a kickass partner"

"Bounty paper towels"

"Bowling Ball"

"Don't be a hero."

"Limber up""Avoid strip clubs""When in doubt, know your way out""The buddy system""Check the back seat""Enjoy the little things""Swiss army knife""Clean socks""Hygiene""Always have backup"

The Zombieland rules

Movies directed byGuru Dutt

Top Left : Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam

Top Right: Chaudhvin Ka Chand

Bottom Left: Pyaasa

Bottom Middle: 12'O Clock

Bottom Right: Kaagaz ka Phool

“A Farewell to Arms By John Carlin 

For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triumphant glow of the post-Cold War.

People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher stakes than The Day After. They played a version of it in the depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise would shake loose some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're playing it again today, but the scenario has changed - now they're preparing for information war.

The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room. The teams are presented with a series of hypothetical incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24 hours. Georgia's telecom system has gone down. The signals on Amtrak's New York to Washington line have failed, precipitating a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX has collapsed. A bomb has exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”

These are the opening paragraphs of the article ‘A farewell to arms’ published in May 1997. Which movie was inspired from this article?

Live free or Die Hard

A- You are serious, you don't know! Every body knows, you don't go full retard.

B- What do you mean?

A- Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rainman, looked retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic sure, not retarded. Then you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow yes, retarded, maybe, braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a Ping-Pong competition. That ain’t retarded. And he was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask _____X_____, _Y_, ____Z_____. Remember? Went full retard. Went home empty handed.

These dialogues appear in the movie ‘Tropic Thunder’. Z is another movie starring X which came in the year Y. Give X and Z.

Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam."

The 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress, hinted that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's character was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued MGM for libel.

After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed. Princess Irina and her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded $127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM. What originated as a result of this to avoid future court cases?

"This motion picture is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely

coincidental"

Silkwood

Mulholland Drive

Gia

Brokeback Mountain

Monster's Ball

Eyes Wide Shut

The Wrestler

On the Road

Monster

The Sessions

Lawless

The Accused

Boys Don't Cry

Vanilla Sky

Heavenly Creatures

Jude

Hamlet

Titanic

Iris

Little Children

The Reader

Oscars 2013: Seth MacFarlane Opens With 'We Saw Your B**bs'

In the 1980s, while the west towers were under construction, Washington National Cathedral held a decorative sculpture competition for children. Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine.

The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, of Kearney, Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic representation of evil. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett, and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral. The Cathedral boasts what is probably the world's only sculpture of X on a religious building.

Darth Vader

The picture is that of “El Indio” Fernández, a famous Mexican actor, screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico. .He developed his own style which had such an effect in the industry that his portrayal of rural Mexico became a standard for the film industry and also became the image of Mexico in the world.

Cedric Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores DelRio to El Indio. Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to do some a special modeling assignment that stands till now. What did he do?

Emilio "El Indio" Fernández ,posed nude to create what today is known as the "Oscar".

What’s he trying to do ?

Mark Allison who ran 874 miles in UK , one of the many who have attempted running across the country made famous by Forrest Gump.

In a certain Oscar ceremony the presenter of the Best Film forgot to announce all the nominees instead he went up the podium and directly opened the envelope & announced the name of the winner . This was really a rare occurrence .The presenter was one of the most famous actors of the last century .

Which film?

Sir Laurence Olivier and Amadeus

This is a 2007 science fiction film about a retiring University Professor who claims to be a cro-magnon who has survived for 14,000 years. The entire film is set in the professor's house during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.

The film was made on a budget of $200,000, and was screened at many film festivals. However something related to the distribution of the film is unique, with the producers actually thanking a particular community/group. What is unique?

P2P network users

The Man from Earth

 Penthouse founder and publisher Bob Guccione agreed to finance the project on two conditions: that the film would be transformed into a flamboyant, luxurious spectacle akin to Hollywood's sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s and 1960s, and that extra sex and nudity would be added to the script in order to promote Guccione's magazine.

Roger Ebert gave it a rare zero stars rating, calling it "sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash.“ It is one of only three films Ebert ever walked out of ("two hours into its 170 minute length"), the other two being Tru Loved and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Caligula

The name “Amiya Productions” was based on names of X and Y as production partners.

It came into existence when Z was in financial crisis and both X and Y supported it by becoming producers. The credits though featured Pawan Kumar (X’s then Secretary) & Sushila Kamath

(Hrishida’s Chief Assistant Director, assisted in Z too) as producers.

Amitabh Bacchan & Jaya Bacchan

Abhimaan

“Preventing ______” is a project by a group of people who are enthusiastic about the potential of artificial intelligence, but are concerned about how it will act if we don’t program it to be friendly to humans, and ensure that it retains that friendliness as its intelligence increases.

They also run the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the only 501(c)3 non-profit in the world devoted to the cause.

Fill in the blank.

Rain, River, Liberty,  _____ (Leaf) and Summer

Fill in the blank and explain

The missing blank is ‘Joaquin’ as in, Joaquin Phoenix. The rest are his siblings. In his youth he started calling himself ‘Leaf’ as he too desired the nature inspired names his siblings had.

A very “simple” connect, right?

Satan’s Alley”, a movie about two gay priests at an 18th century Irish monastery

“The Scorcher” movie franchise

“The Fatties: Fart 2”, the movie about a family which only farts!

’Bust-A-Nut” candy bar “Booty Sweat” energy drink

The answer is “Tropic Thunder”, nominated in the year 2009 for the best supporting actor Robert Downey Jr. These are all different spoof-movie trailers mentioned before the movie starts and the products were released before the movie released as a gimmick. When I mentioned “simple”, I was referring to “Simple Jack”, one of the common running spoof- movie themes inside this movie.

The director of this movie has said that he was inspired by “The Tale of the Dream Girl” episode of Nickelodeon’s television series ”Are You Afraid of the Dark” to make this movie. The production script for the film was unusual; nearly all of the information usually included in screenplays was absent. Because the writer intended to direct the film himself, he omitted from the screenplay most of the information that a screenwriter would normally convey to a director.

The left-handed B.W. learned to write with his right hand for the film, to hide from the audience that he was no longer wearing his wedding ring. ID the movie?

The Sixth Sense

He is the only actor, other than Jack Nicholson, to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s. Every decade! He has a total of 6 nominations so far, winning two of them - for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a supporting actor.

He has appeared in more than one hundred films and his real name is Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.

What is his screen name?

Michael Caine

Danny Boyle pushed his “Solomon Grundy” project back because he thought this story and “Solomon Grundy” were too similar.

Filmmakers worked closely with Levi’s to obtain clothing items from their Levi’s Vintage Clothing collection to authenticate various time periods captured throughout the film.

The second Hollywood feature film,after Denzel Washington’s “Deja Vu” (2006), to film in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Name the movie.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Lara Dutta was offered a role in X as well as its sequel, but turned the part down because she didn't like the script.

The script for X (while in production) was code-named The Burly Man. The Burly Man is the title of the script Barton Fink is working on in the film Barton Fink (1991). While shooting the freeway sequence, the directors watched rushes etc. in a vehicle referred to by the crew as the Burly Van.

X- The Matrix Reloaded

The film was originally set to shoot in spring of 2008, but was delayed due to Heath Ledger's death. The producers and director delayed the film out of respect for Michelle Williams (lead actress in the movie), Ledger's ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter Matilda, rather than going ahead and shooting the film with another actress in Michelle's role. The movie also stars Ryan Gosling!

The screenplay won the 2006 Chrysler Film Project contest. The prize was $1 million of funding, courtesy of the Chrysler Brand and production company Silverwood Films.

 Blue Valentine

Released in the year 2008, this movie is about a single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.

This hollywood flick was directed by Tim Disney, Great-nephew of Walt Disney!

American Violet

The language spoken by the protagonist and his accomplices is author Anthony Burgess's invention, "Nadsat": a mix of English, Russian and slang. X was afraid that they had used too much of it, and that the movie would not be accessible. The original edition of the novel suffered from similar criticisms, and a Nadsat glossary appendix was added to the second and subsequent editions.

The first movie to make use of Dolby sound, it used Dolby noise reduction on all pre-mixes and masters, but a conventional optical sound track on release prints.

One of only two movies rated X on its original release (the other being Midnight Cowboy) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

A Clockwork Orange

Sea of Time

Sea of Science

Sea of Nothing

Foothills of the Headlands (or Sea of Heads)

Sea of Holes

In which movie would you find the characters journeying through all these scenic locales?

Yellow Submarine

When the producers were having trouble finding the right actor to fill the role of John Coffey, Bruce Willis suggested X with whom he had co-starred in Armageddon. X was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie. X died on September 3rd, 2012.

This is supposed to be the second-most successful movie of Frank Darabont in his whole career (the most successful being The Shawshank Redemption)

The Green Mile

The first movie adaptation of X fared poorly at the box office. When the sequel to X was adapted and became a hit, fresh attention was given to the original. It was finally remade in 2002, this time the movie having the same name as X.

Red Dragon

This upcoming french movie is actually called ‘L'écume des jours’ & is an adaptation of Boris Vian's 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream. The plot is about a woman suffering from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

It shares it’s English name with something huge in India that started in 1971, now in its 42nd edition, & has snowballed to become the largest of its kind in Asia.

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