Bollywood quiz

1. Shut Up and Pounce The uiz

2. Prelims ● 16 questions; 20 Marks ● Each answer carries one mark. ● Top 8 teams Mumbai aaengi. ● * marked questions will be used as tie-breakers. ● Sudden death will be used in case tie persists.

3. 1. Id X. On 15 April 2007, the American actor Richard Gere hugged and kissed X repeatedly on the cheek during an AIDS-awareness event. X responded to these protests by saying, "I understand this (kissing) is his (Gere's) culture, not ours. But this was not a big thing or so obscene for people to overreact in such a manner. I struggle to understand these people's sentiments, but mainly I do not want a foreigner to take bad memories from here.“ In another controversy, during her stay on Celebrity Big Brother 5, X was alleged to be the target of racism and bullying by some other housemates. The screening of the racial comments on UK television resulted in national and international media coverage. X went on to win the title.

4. 2. Id X(a production house) There was no reason given why X had been dissolved when filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, one of the four co-owners of the production house, tweeted a couple of days back to say they had decided to go their separate ways. The end of X, which till not too long ago enjoyed a reputation for making edgy, powerful cinema, could be endgame in a complaint of sexual harassment against co-owner Vikas Bahl that has played out over a length of time and was reported widely.

5. 3. Identify X. Having featured in over 400 films between 1967 and 2005, X was known for his deep baritone voice, which would infuse life into every scene he became a part of. Spielberg, apparently, was a big fan of X. In one of his interviews, he had said, “X is my favourite villain. The best the world has ever produced and ever will.” Action figure of one of X’s characters follows.

7. 4*. 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)?

8. 5. Id X. During the second world war, Russia was in a terrible state- people dead, starvation was on the rise and the whole country was devastated. When the Russian people saw greater hardships being faced by the poor in a country after watching the movie X, with a smile, it gave them optimism. And hence, the protagonist became the face of optimism in Russia.

9. 6. Id X and Y. 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…”.

10. 7. Which is the only film in which Dilip Kumar played a Muslim?

11. 8*. Which song?

12. 9*. Connect with Bollywood. Once a symbol of the golden age of air travel, a Douglas Super DC-3 airplane lies hollow and forgotten on a deserted black beach in Iceland - untouched since it crashed more than four decades ago. The United States Navy cargo plane is now no more than a husk - dented and bruised by 41 punishing years of arctic gales and rain. Its tail and wings are gone and its windows are all smashed in since it was forced to crash land on Sólheimasandur beach on Saturday November 24, 1973. Amazingly, the crew all survived the impact, but the plane was abandoned rather than recovered, meaning the weather-beaten remains are still standing at the crash site.

13. 10. Identify both the actresses.

14. 11. Id X and Y. The film X has been enlisted as a case study in marketing management courses in Y colleges. After the movie caught the imagination of the Indian audience, Y saw a staggering 32% increase of the country’s tourism. Multiple tour companies started tailor-made adventure trails, and flights have also been rescheduled between India and Y.

15. 12. Which movie? The movie tells the story of an honest man who becomes the target of a vicious gang lord, after inadvertently interfering in a mission. This leads to a cycle of retributive violence, as the young man seeks vengeance for death of father, sister and fiancée. It is known for its over-the-top characters, sequences and dialogues. One such dialogue - “Lambu ne tujhe lamba kar diya, maachis ki teeli ko Khamba kar diya?”

16. 13*. Id X. X introduced the fringe hairstyle in Indian film industry in her first film Love in Simla. R. K. Nayyar, director of the film and her future husband, suggested the fringe style in order to make her forehead look narrower. X says, "They tried to stick a strip near the hairline, but it didn’t work out." Nayyar then suggested she go for the fringe style as was then sported by the Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn. The fringe soon became popular as a fashion fad in the 1960s. Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone sported the same fringe in her films Om Shanti Om (2007) and Chandni Chowk To China (2009).

17. 14. Which song and movie? To make this iconic dance number, the director wanted to fuse some iconic sequences from the 60’s and the 70’s. This was the first time Bollywood attempted to merge different silver screen worlds. The first sequence shows the heroine (of the present movie) dancing with Sunil Dutt in a remix of "Tadap Yeh Din Raat Ki" from the 1966 film Amrapali. The second sequence brings out the footage for "Karle Pyar Karle Aankhen Char" - from the 1970 film Saccha Jhutha starring Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz. The third sequence features the badminton game between Jeetendra and Aruna Irani in the item number "Dhal Gaya Din Ho Gayi Sham“ from Humjole. The fourth sequence recreates the ‘Jay-Vijay’ item number "Sab Janoon Re Tori Batiyan" featuring Jeetendra masquerading as a king. Which iconic dance number is this and also name the film.

18. 15. Identify this famous model/actress. The old click has a very young X, during her modelling days, posing with late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Apparently, the picture was clicked almost fifteen years ago when X had been part of a group of models who had gone to attend a fashion show in Libya. Also seen in the picture was model and actress Neha Dhupia. An image follows.

20. 16*. Which movie? A cult classic which spent years in various theatres of Bombay and other cities. The style, the dialogs, the eccentric villain and the never-seen-before locales created a strange amusement amongst the Indian movie connoisseurs. As a result, they worship the movie. The movie is said to be inspired from the following Hollywood Movies, many scenes are exact copy of the scenes from these movies and One character's resemblance with El Indio (played by Gian Maria Volontè) in Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) is pretty much obvious. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, Once Upon A Time in The West, For A Few Dollars More.

21. Safety Slide

22. 1. Id X. On 15 April 2007, the American actor Richard Gere hugged and kissed X repeatedly on the cheek during an AIDS-awareness event. X responded to these protests by saying, "I understand this (kissing) is his (Gere's) culture, not ours. But this was not a big thing or so obscene for people to overreact in such a manner. I struggle to understand these people's sentiments, but mainly I do not want a foreigner to take bad memories from here.“ In another controversy, during her stay on Celebrity Big Brother 5, X was alleged to be the target of racism and bullying by some other housemates. The screening of the racial comments on UK television resulted in national and international media coverage. X went on to win the title.

23. 1. Shilpa Shetty Shut up and bounce

24. 2. Id X(a production house) There was no reason given why X had been dissolved when filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, one of the four co-owners of the production house, tweeted a couple of days back to say they had decided to go their separate ways. The end of X, which till not too long ago enjoyed a reputation for making edgy, powerful cinema, could be endgame in a complaint of sexual harassment against co-owner Vikas Bahl that has played out over a length of time and was reported widely.

25. 2. Phantom Films

26. 3. Identify X. Having featured in over 400 films between 1967 and 2005, X was known for his deep baritone voice, which would infuse life into every scene he became a part of. Spielberg, apparently, was a big fan of X. In one of his interviews, he had said, “X is my favourite villain. The best the world has ever produced and ever will.” Action figure of one of X’s characters follows.

28. 3.Amrish Puri

29. 4*. 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)?

30. 4*. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Dadasaheb Phalke)

31. 5. Id X. During the second world war, Russia was in a terrible state- people dead, starvation was on the rise and the whole country was devastated. When the Russian people saw greater hardships being faced by the poor in a country after watching the movie X, with a smile, it gave them optimism. And hence, the protagonist became the face of optimism in Russia.

32. 5. Awaara

33. 6. Id X and Y. 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…”.

34. 6. X- Dharmendra Y- Hema Malini

35. 7. Which is the only film in which Dilip Kumar played a Muslim?

36. 7.Mughal-e-Azam

37. 8*. Which song?

38. 8*. Ae mere watan ke logon.

39. 9*. Connect with Bollywood. Once a symbol of the golden age of air travel, a Douglas Super DC-3 airplane lies hollow and forgotten on a deserted black beach in Iceland - untouched since it crashed more than four decades ago. The United States Navy cargo plane is now no more than a husk - dented and bruised by 41 punishing years of arctic gales and rain. Its tail and wings are gone and its windows are all smashed in since it was forced to crash land on Sólheimasandur beach on Saturday November 24, 1973. Amazingly, the crew all survived the impact, but the plane was abandoned rather than recovered, meaning the weather-beaten remains are still standing at the crash site.

40. 9*. Abandoned plane in “Gerua” song

41. 10. Identify both the actresses.

42. 10. Sridevi, Jayalalita

43. 11. Id X and Y. The film X has been enlisted as a case study in marketing management courses in Y colleges. After the movie caught the imagination of the Indian audience, Y saw a staggering 32% increase of the country’s tourism. Multiple tour companies started tailor-made adventure trails, and flights have also been rescheduled between India and Y.

44. 11. X= ZNMD Y= Spain

45. 12.Which movie? The movie tells the story of an honest man who becomes the target of a vicious gang lord, after inadvertently interfering in a mission. This leads to a cycle of retributive violence, as the young man seeks vengeance for death of father, sister and fiancée. It is known for its over-the-top characters, sequences and dialogues. One such dialogue - “Lambu ne tujhe lamba kar diya, maachis ki teeli ko Khamba kar diya?”

46. 12. Gunda

47. 13*. Id X. X introduced the fringe hairstyle in Indian film industry in her first film Love in Simla. R. K. Nayyar, director of the film and her future husband, suggested the fringe style in order to make her forehead look narrower. X says, "They tried to stick a strip near the hairline, but it didn’t work out." Nayyar then suggested she go for the fringe style as was then sported by the Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn. The fringe soon became popular as a fashion fad in the 1960s. Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone sported the same fringe in her films Om Shanti Om (2007) and Chandni Chowk To China (2009).

48. 13*. X= Sadhana Shivdasani

49. 14. Which song and movie? To make this iconic dance number, the director wanted to fuse some iconic sequences from the 60’s and the 70’s. This was the first time Bollywood attempted to merge different silver screen worlds. The first sequence shows the heroine (of the present movie) dancing with Sunil Dutt in a remix of "Tadap Yeh Din Raat Ki" from the 1966 film Amrapali. The second sequence brings out the footage for "Karle Pyar Karle Aankhen Char" - from the 1970 film Saccha Jhutha starring Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz. The third sequence features the badminton game between Jeetendra and Aruna Irani in the item number "Dhal Gaya Din Ho Gayi Sham“ from Humjole. The fourth sequence recreates the ‘Jay-Vijay’ item number "Sab Janoon Re Tori Batiyan" featuring Jeetendra masquerading as a king. Which iconic dance number is this and also name the film.

50. 14. Dhoom Taana, Om Shanti Om

51. 15. Identify this famous model/actress. The old click has a very young X, during her modelling days, posing with late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Apparently, the picture was clicked almost fifteen years ago when X had been part of a group of models who had gone to attend a fashion show in Libya. Also seen in the picture was model and actress Neha Dhupia. An image follows.

53. 15. Katrina Kaif

54. 16*. Which movie? A cult classic which spent years in various theatres of Bombay and other cities. The style, the dialogs, the eccentric villain and the never-seen-before locales created a strange amusement amongst the Indian movie connoisseurs. As a result, they worship the movie. The movie is said to be inspired from the following Hollywood Movies, many scenes are exact copy of the scenes from these movies and One character's resemblance with El Indio (played by Gian Maria Volontè) in Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) is pretty much obvious. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, Once Upon A Time in The West, For A Few Dollars More.

55. 16*. Sholay

56. Time to get your sheets together.

57. MAINS Dry Pounce Written Round Interval Return of the Dry Pounce Written Round Returns

58. Dry Pounce ● 8 Questions ● Normal Pounce/Bounce (clockwise) ● +20/-10

59. 1. Who wrote this open letter?

60. Safety Slide

61. Swara Bhaskar

62. 2. Which song? The song was Bollywood’s first song to be shot entirely in slow motion ushering the world of cinematography into a newfound technique, with its baby steps. They all had to mouth the words in highly sped up version, otherwise enacting at a slow speed. The high-speed film was then slowed down to get the dubbing and acting to finally meet halfway, looking normal on the large and small screens.

63. Safety Slide

64. Pehla Nasha

65. 3. Wo Kaun Thi? She was for some time known as ‘the poor man’s 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 Bachchan’s plans to eliminate her…”. Who?

66. Safety Slide

67. Parveen Babi

68. 4. Id the song X. Biswajeet, the lead actor in the movie Kismat said in an interview about the filming of the song X from the movie: “Director Manmohan Desai would sit in on our rehearsals with choreographer PL Raj that went on for 6–7 days. For me, the song meant hours in make-up, elaborate wigs and a sari pallu that never stayed in place. The adas and nakhras were not so difficult because as I child I had watched the neighbourhood dadas act out female parts in pararar plays, because those days respectable ladies didn't act. In theatres in Delhi and UP, coins were showered when the song came on.” Hint: Biswajeet did something for the first time in bollywood.

69. Safety Slide

70. X = Kajra mohhabat wala. Biswajeet did the drag act of putting a female disguise for this song.

71. 5. Which movie? Only 5 movies have so far won the big 4 i.e. best movie, director, actor and actress at the Filmfare. First to do so was Guide followed by DDLJ and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Two movies released in the last decade also come in this list. One of them is Devdas. Name the only other.

72. Safety Slide

73. Black

74. 6. What’s the connection? Non-Exhaustive List: Ittefaq (1969) Darna Mana Hai (2003) Kalyug (1981) Black (2005) Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) Bheja Fry (2007) Kaun (1999) A Wednesday (2008) Bhoot (2003) The Lunchbox (2013)

75. Safety Slide

76. Bollywood movies with no songs.

77. 7. Id X. X is an actor, director and producer. He was born as Ajay in a Bollywood family. He made his debut in Y opposite to Amrita Singh(first wife of Saif Ali Khan). It was also her debut movie. The movie was blockbuster and he got nominated for the Filmfare best actor award. He went on to give many hits and memorable characters in the future. He won National Award for best supporting actor was given to him in 1993.

78. Safety Slide

79. Sunny Deol

80. 8. Music composer Sneha Khanwalkar started work on the soundtrack over a year before filming began. She traveled to places such as Trinidad in the West Indies to record Chutney music, a fusion of Caribbean and songs of Bihari migrants that were taken there in 1830s as slaves. “X" is one such song, there were two more "Dumper loading unloading" and "British" that did not make it to the film. Identify X and the movie.

81. Safety Slide

82. X- Hunter, Movie- Gangs of Wasseypur

83. Written Round ● 10 Minimalistic posters of Bollywood movies. ● Normal: +10/0 ● Stake: +20/-10

84. 1.

85. 2.

86. 3.

87. 4.

88. 5.

89. 6.

90. 7.

91. 8.

92. 9.

93. 10.

94. Safety Slide

95. 1. Sholay

96. 2.Wake up Sid!

97. 3. Lagaan

98. 4. Main hoon Na

99. 5. Gangs of Wasseypur

100. 6. Dil Se

101. 7.Manjhi – The Mountain Man

102. 8.KKHH

103. 9. Tezaab

104. 10. Padosan

105. Interval

106. Return of the Dry Pounce ● 8 Questions ● Normal Pounce/Bounce (anti-clockwise) ● +20/-10

107. 1. Id the movie X. Kishore Kumar made X, hoping it would fail commercially. He wanted to show losses in his income, and thus avoid paying a huge income tax to the authorities. To his disgust, the film became a success. As he did not want to add to his earnings, he gave X and all its rights to his secretary, who retained the copyright.

108. Safety Slide

110. 2. Funda? Ek Dil Sao Afsane is a 1963 Hindi romantic film, directed by R.C Talwar with Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in the lead roles. The original female lead was supposed to be Madhubala. The shooting began with her in 1959, but her heart ailment curtailed her career and she left the film incomplete. Her portions were entirely reshot with Waheeda Rehman replacing her. Last year, this movie shot back into the limelight, for no filmy reason, largely due to a still from one of their songs. Put funda.

111. Safety Slide

112. Aise Kaise BC!!

113. 3. Id X. X was born as Asrar ul Hassan Khan in a Tarin Pashtun family, in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh . He was a struggling Hakim when he happened to recite one of his ghazals at a mushaira in Sultanpur. The ghazal was a hit with the audience and X decided to drop his fledgling medical practice and began writing poetry seriously. Some of his famous songs are: Chura liya hai tumne, Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si, Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan, Kya hua tera waada, Baar baar dekho, Khwaab ho tum yaa koi haqeeqat

114. Safety Slide

115. Majrooh Sultanpuri

116. 4. Which song? There was a controversy around this iconic 90s song. While for many, the representation of women was at the heart of the matter, what provoked much debate was the verbal erotic exchange between two women(played by Madhuri Dixit and Neena Gupta) in the course of the song. Feminists among themselves were divided on whether the imagery was pornographic or liberating. It was protested by as many as 42 political parties.

117. Safety Slide

118. Choli ke peeche kya hai?!

119. 5. Id X. X was a weekly countdown show of top filmi songs from Hindi cinema listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, that was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to Vividh Bharati service of All India Radio network in 1989 where it ran till 1994. It was the first radio countdown show of Indian film songs, and has been quoted as being the most popular radio program in India during its run.

120. Safety Slide

121. Binaca Geetmala

122. 6. Id X and Y. X took a job with BEST as a bus conductor in Bombay. While thus employed, he continued to nurture his desire to work in films and entertained his passengers with amusing routines, hoping that he would at some point be spotted by someone with connection to the movie industry. Balraj Sahni saw him, perhaps on a bus or perhaps while X was amusing the cast of Hulchul, a film for which he had obtained a bit part, with an extemporized routine as a drunk. Later, Y, gave him the famous name, a reference to the brand of Scotch whisky, when he was inspired by X's display in the role of a drunkard.

123. Safety Slide

124. X= Johnny Walker, Y= Guru Dutt

125. 7. What phrase? This phrase was used by Shahrukh Khan in his movie 'OM SHANTI OM'. The dialogue became famous after the movie and is used till now. It is used when someone is really angry because of someone else. It is translated “you idiot you better watch out”. It is related to a famous superstar but he has never used this dialogue.

126. Safety Slide

127. ENNA RASCALA-mind it..!!!

128. 8. Id actress X and the movie Y. Director Maneesh Sharma’s first independent production venture under the Yash Raj Films banner, Y, introduced the actress X. The debutante X, who was part of YRF’s Casting Division was spotted by Sharma when she would double as an actor to conduct auditions with prospective talent. The male lead owns a cassette shop in the local market of Haridwar and is also subscribed to nationalist organisation(RSS).

129. Safety Slide

130. X= Bhumi Pednekar Y= Dum Laga Ke Haisha

131. Written Round Returns ● 5 #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly tweets. ● 5 scenes “inspiring” scenes of famous Bollywood movies. ● Normal: +10/0 ● Stake: +20/-10

132. 1.

133. 2.

134. 3.

135. 4.

136. 5.

137. Just For Laugh Gags!

139. 6.

140. 7.

141. 8.

142. 9.

143. 10.

144. Safety Slide

145. 1. Dhoom Series

146. 2. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

147. 3. Hum Aapke Hain Koun

148. 4. Chak De India!

149. 5. Baazigar

150. 6. Desi Boyz

151. 7. Om Shanti Om

152. 8. Singham

153. 9. Barfi!

154. 10. Dabangg

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