bollywood quiz
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- 1. Ahmedabad Quiz Club Q.M:Anubhav Chatterjee
- 2. Q1.
- 3. Ans: National school of Drama
- 4. Q2.Son of a Sanskrit scholar and trained in architecture and landscape painting,He worked as a photographer,as a stage make up man,as an assistance to a German illusionist and as a magician.He set up the Hindustan Cinema Films,Nasik,the 1st purely indigenous film production company with corporate shareholding.Identify the person?
- 5. Ans: Dadasaheb Phalke
- 6. Q4.He directed over a dozen films and documentaries,including classics such as Pratidhwani,Chikmik Bijuli,Siraj,Miri Jiyori,Mahut Bandhure and Mera Dharam Meri Maa.He won the Presidents National Award for film 3 times and also prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for lifetime achievement.Identify the legend?
- 7. Ans:Bhupen Hazarika
- 8. Q5.Even as a debate rages over the statutory warnings that pop-up whenever a character lights up during a movie, the Censor Board has now introduced anti-drinking warnings in scenes where actors are depicted consuming alcohol. The first Hindi film which got such an insertion was_________
- 9. Ans: Happy New Year
- 10. Q6.Born in Indore in 1924,his family shifted to Mumbai when the textile mill his father worked closed.He did various job like greengrocer,ice-cream seller and also as a bus conductor when one day this bus conductors comments,anecdotes were being observed in the bus by Balraj Sahni.Who was this legend?
- 11. Ans: Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi aka Johnny Walker
- 12. Q7.He was born in Lahore on December 19,1919.He was known as Fateh Din,a radio personality and his programmes made him popular all over Lahore and Punjab.He was spotted at a wedding by Dalsukh Pancholi,who offered him the first break in the movie Daasi(1944).His notable movies were Buddha Mil Gaya,Chuppke Chuppke?Who is he?
- 13. Ans:Om Prakash
- 14. Q10. A Mumbai-based production company 200NotOut is working on the movie to be directed by award-winning British director James Erskine. The planned film is expected to be between 90 minutes and two hours and could be released by the end of this year or early next year. Shooting for the film has been going on for the past year and we aim to continue filming through the year, the spokesperson was quoted as saying.Who is the HERO?
- 15. Ans: Sachin Tendulkar
- 16. Q12. ."What can I say... my musical partner in life has gone, what is left of me to say anything more, I had never thought that at such an early age he would leave us all and go; Anyway his good qualities of maintaining goodwill, giving love and receiving love were innate in him and I too don't have them in me. He used to regularly remind me of my innate quality of being in a boisterous mood all the time and always abrasive with some one or the other and so on and so forthwith......."X said about Y in an interview with AmeenSayani.Identify X & Y?
- 17. Ans: X-Shankar & Y-Jaikishan
- 18. Ans: Kishore Kumar
- 19. Q14. X had to scrap the original script after he was told that it was similar to Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'. The original title of the film had to be changed thrice. "It was initially called 'Ek Tha Talli' but was changed to just 'Talli' as around that time, Salman Khan's 'Ek Tha Tiger' had released. Identify X and the movie?
- 20. Ans: Rajkumar Hirani and PK
- 21. Q15. Starting his journalistic career as sub-editor-cum-reporter in Bombay Chronicle in 1935 where he began contributing his 'Last Page' before moving it to the weekly Blitz in 1947 and continuing it till his last days. He has also been hailed as one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realist cinema.He was awarded Padma Shri in 1969.His autobiography ___
- 22. Ans: K.A.Abbas
- 23. Q16.This 1984 movie was based on a play written by Mahesh Elkunchwar.The movie was directed by Ketan Mehta. [VIDEO]
- 24. Ans: Holi
- 25. Q17.In the words of Hrishikesh Mukherjee ,was the incredible birth story of X productions,a production house that ushered in modern Indian cinema: After watching the film Rashomon at Eros cinema,some of us with X were returning home to Malad in a double decker BEST bus.The film had left a tremendous impact on us.We were all silent.and I remember thinking,Why cant we make films like this?I could not help asking X.He was quiet at first but suddenly exclaimed,who will write the film?I promptly offered to write.We decided that all unit members will have a share in the production company.This is how X productions was born inside a double-decker BEST bus!
- 26. Ans: Bimal Roy Productions
- 27. Q18.Identify the character played by Naseeruddin Shah,the movie and whose work the movie is based? [VIDEO]
- 28. Ans; Inspector Ghote. Movie: The Perfect Murder Work: H.R.F.Keating
- 29. Q19. Nathasha Rajthore, along with a crew of over 20, has started shooting the documentary movie in the Swiss Alps. The film will be divided into three segments - London, Switzerland and India. The team will be revisiting all the locations seen in the film to give a perspective on its legacy. Nathasha insisted that the idea is to not make a fan-film but analyse what is it about X that makes people fall in love 20 years later.
- 30. Ans: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
- 31. Q20.The technology and practice were pioneered at Kolkatas innovative New Theatres studios,apparently at the suggestion of the studios sound recordist,Mukul Bose.However composer R.C.Boral is credited for this development.The first hindi film to use this technology is reported to have been New Theatres Bhagyachakra.what is the technology?
- 32. Ans: Playback singing
- 33. Q21.The actor originally chosen to essay the villain had refused the project as he was busy with another.The director was being sued by actor-producer Joginder for allegedly having copied the theme from his film Bindiya aur Bandook.The film took 2-and-half year to complete and was lucky to have landed a filmfare award for editing by M.S.Shinde?
- 34. Ans: Sholay
- 35. Q22. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras,reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU,was filmed having consensual sex with a rickshaw puller. It didnt matter that the professor was in the privacy of his quarters. No questions were asked on who set up the cameras in his bedroom.Siras was simply suspended.Siras returned to the campus after the Allahabad High Court stayed his suspension. This time too,the cameras were watching. So when the glare got too much,Siras gave up his fight,He was found dead in his house two days later.Siras will brought to light by a movie starring .Identify the movie?
- 36. Ans: Aligarh
- 37. Q23.Identify the movie?
- 38. Ans: Gour Hari Dastaan
- 39. Q24. X met Y for first time during the making of the film Sarhadi Lootera. X was a small-time actor, and Sarhadi Lootera was one of the last films he acted in. Y was a clapper boy for the film and was later made the dialogue writer as director S.M. Sagar was unable to find a dialogue writer. While working in this film their friendship began. X used to assist writer/director Abrar Alvi at first and Y used to assist Kaifi Azmi.
- 40. Ans: X-Salim Khan;Y- Javed Akhtar
- 41. Q25.Identify,what has been blanked out.
- 42. Q26.
- 43. Ans: Suman Kalyanpur & Madan Mohan
- 44. Q27.X had first offered the role of Y to Z opposite Shikha Biswas,daughter of composer Anil Biswas.He thought that Z had a great career as a comic actor,but Z was in Bombay to compose,not act.Identify X,Y,Z and the movie?
- 45. Ans:X-Mehmood;Y- Bhola,Z- R.D.Burman Movie: Padosan
- 46. Q28.X admits that when he was studying at the Film and Televison Institute,Pune,he would often bump into a pretty girl Rehana.Soon,he started courting her,away from the vigilant eyes of her grandfather and father, through little love notes which always ended with ____
- 47. Ans: X-Subhash Ghai and ILU ILU
- 48. Q29.Some of his notable appearances on the big screen include films such as: Jungle queen Jungle Love Jungle ka Beta Jungle Hero Bhayank Panja Rupa Rani Ramkali Vasna Who is he?
- 49. Ans:
- 50. Q30.
- 51. Ans: