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

4. Ans Rajnikanth His first Hindi movie

5. 2Seorita from Zindagi Na Milegi DobaraName the three Hindi singers

.(The Spanish singer is a flamenco singer namedMaria del Mar
Fernndez)PLAY VIDEO

6. Ans Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol

7. 3 What is the claim to fame of the film Ram Rajya?PLAY VIDEO

8. Ans Only film that Gandhi was supposed to have watched!

9. 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?

10. Ans Sync Sound

11. 5.Connect the two movies

12. Ans The Greatest Story ever told is the movie Tagline of Sholay

13. 6 What did this poster of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
inspire in Bollywood?

14. Ans Inspiration for Dev D Poster

15. 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. Sir Do you sing? Yes. Mr. Osten. I can sing.X then sang a classical
BhajanIt was reported that Osten did not say anything and asked himto 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 youngand girlish.Whos X?

16. Ans Ashok Kumar Ganguly

17. 8 His 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 treeentitled , Birth of a Pea Plant !)

18. Ans Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke)Raja Harishchandra

fame!

19. 9 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.

20. Ans X Pramathesh Chandra Barua (P.C. Barua) Y- Devdas

21. 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,
hereplied , Oh, X , easily. It was unbelievable how effortlesslyhe sang, with
such talaffuz (pronunciation), abeautiful throw of voice and depth of feeling.
Whatvoice control! It used to make my hair stand on endlistening to him. I
could never touch him

22. Ans Kundanlal Saigal ( KL Saigal)

23. 11 The 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?

24. Ans Lagaan (Kotai is the village near Champaner)

25. 12 X 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.

26. Ans X Fearless Nadia Y- Homi Wadia

27. 13 This 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.

28. Ans Nur Jehan (Noor Jahan)

29. 14 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 PoleBands played ___ at airports. X is reported to have been
a favourite film of Mao Tse Tung-The Indian Film Even 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?

30. Ans Awara

31. 15 X wrote a pleading letter to Nehru during the period of severe foreign
exchange shortage ,Our picture , (by our I mean picture belongs to ourgreat
country), has been selected as one of the five bestpictures. You know I am pure
a swadeshi producerwithout any English education, and I badly need the
helpand support of our nations representatives in America.Like other
international producers, I should be able toshow 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 vote
Identify X and Y

32. Ans X Mehboob Khan Y- Mother India (1958 Oscars)

33. 16 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?

34. Ans X- Lata Mangeshkar Y- Mohammed Rafi Z- Asha Bhosle

35. 17 During 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 Pakistan How were they better known as-
The Indian _____?

36. Ans The Indian Laurel and Hardy

37. 18. Claim to fame of this movie?

38. Ans Bertrand Russels only cameo in a feature film

39. 19 X played in Hollywood movies like Lawrence of Arabia and Death on

the Nile. X and Mehmood teamed up in Namasteji Indias first feature-length
comedy Moreover 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?

40. Ans I. S Johardelivering dry sardonic dialogue tinged withcynicism and

accompanied by a raised eyebrow

41. 20 She was for some time known as the poor mans Zeenat Aman In
1976, she was in the cover of Time magazine dressed in lingerie and posing
like a 1930s Hollywood screen goddess When 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 her Who?

42. Ans Parveen Babi

43. 21 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?

44. Ans Gandhi!

45. 22 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 Whos he?

46. Ans Allah Rakha Rahman

47. 23 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?

48. Ans X- Dharmendra Y- Hema Malini

49. 24 Which is the only film in which Dilip Kumar played a Muslim?

50. Ans Mughal-e-Azam ! (as Prince Salim-later Emperor Jehangir)

51. 25 X had the following to say of the English band Y,People say that the Y
are a fad. But I dont thinksoIf you listen to the Y properly, you get a feelof
old Roman music. Sometimes, you get a feelof Indian music, sometimes you get
a feel ofAssamese folk songs. On the face value you mayfeel it is a bad thing
but, no, there is inner soulto the Y music. Moreover they are
moreexperimental X and Y?

52. Ans X- Lata Mangeshkar Y- Beatles

53. 26 Which film magazine in India is said to be modelled on the American

magazine Photoplay?

54. Ans Stardust

55. 2011 : The Year that was.The Void that has been created!