Bollywood Quiz

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

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• Rajnikanth• His first Hindi movie

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

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

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• Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol

4• Mother 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?

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• Sync Sound

5.Connect the two movies

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• The Greatest Story Ever Told is the movie• Tagline of Sholay

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

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• Inspiration for Dev D Poster

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• His wife had this to say, “We both went to see the ‘cinema’ in an illuminated tent on Sandhurst Road…It was called the American-India Cinematograph…It was Christmas 1911…The 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 !)

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• Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke)Raja Harishchandra fame!

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• X 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.

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• X – Pramathesh Chandra Barua (P.C. Barua)• Y- Devdas

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• The first public screening of this film was held in Bhuj ( District HQ of Kutch).This was because of the film’s leading actor’s promise to the actors and villagers of Kotai.

• The film?

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• Lagaan • (Kotai is the village near Champaner)

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• “The 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 Pole…Bands played ___ at airports. X is reported to have been a favourite film of Mao Tse Tung”-The Indian Film

• Even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 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?

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• Awara

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• Once 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?

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• X- Lata Mangeshkar• Y- Mohammed Rafi• Z- Asha Bhosle

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• In 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?

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• Gandhi!

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• His 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 2003

• Howard Lee, an actor described his music as ‘Gobbledy-gobbledy-gobbledy-gook’

• Who’s he?

Ans• Allah Rakha Rahman

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• The 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 shot…”

• The couple?

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• X- Dharmendra• Y- Hema Malini

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

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

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• X had the following to say of the English band Y ,

“People say that the Y are a fad. But I don’t think so…If 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 experimental…”• X and Y?

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• X- Lata Mangeshkar• Y- Beatles

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• Which film magazine in India is said to be modelled on the American magazine ‘Photoplay’?

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• Stardust

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