Hindi Ent Quiz

• A total of 32 questions in the quiz.
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• Around the 2004 tsunami, this popular couple was vacationing in Phuket, from where they had to flee
when the calamity came under control.
• However, an MMS of them kissing (yeah, just kissing) was leaked, apparently from this very vacation. The
couple has since broken up.
Which couple?

• While the medley song had featured before in Hindi cinema, this sequence was spectacular. It had six
distinct sections and went on for nearly ten minutes.
• Nasir Husain had hit upon the idea of doing this after visiting Tiffany’s discotheque in London. He liked
the idea of the people at the club continuing to dance even as one track changed to another without a
break in between. With an ace composer like R.D. Burman by his side, he was able to pull off the entire
sequence, crucial in the film to establish the lead actors' friendly rivalry.
Which film featured this medley?

• The film tried to emulate a real life mother-son duo onto the screen in similar roles, and repeated the
lead actors’ pairing from a hit film a few years before, but ended up being a flop.
• It was India’s official submission for the Academy Awards amid much controversy, especially because of
its monumental commercial and critical failure and the producer’s close personal ties with the FFI
panelists.
Identify the film.

Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007) by Vidhu Vinod Chopra

The have all featured in Euphoria videos
• Indrani Dasgupta: Kaise Bhoolegi Mera Naam
• Rimi Sen: Maeri
• Vidya Balan: Kabhi Aana Tu Meri Gully
• Neha Dhupia: Sha Na Na Na

• The original 1978 song (non-Indian) implies that the person in question is the Queen’s paramour, and
was believed to have mystic powers which helped him deceive the royalty.
• It was sampled in two Bollywood songs:
o In Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1994) where the original has no connection to the song
o In an ambitious 2012 action spy thriller, when the lead actor is in the country which the original
song referred to. This was a nearly perfect tune-copy of the original.
Identify the original song.

Rasputin by Boney M
• “Sachi Yeh Kahani Hai” from Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1994)
• “I’ll Do The Talking Tonight” from Agent Vinod (2012)

• X’s affair with Y was said to have been a result of mutual friendship through Shah Rukh Khan, and that
was reportedly one of the major reasons of her divorce, rather than her husband’s rumored affairs.
• Y was eventually dropped from SRK’s inner circle, owing to the discomfort it caused to X and her
husband, and also due to Y’s rumored drug issues.
• X continues to be on good terms with her husband after the divorce (2014), while Y also divorced his
wife later.
Identify X and Y.

X: Sussanne Khan, Y: Arjun Rampal

• “The logic of Dreamz Unlimited is not to make money but to make different films and to make sure not
to lose money. We should not have to sell our houses to run the company. So when I decided to join
hands with my partners, I was very clear that the company should be self-reliant.”
• Dreamz Unlimited is now defunct, but has transformed into a bigger production house.
Which production house has Dreamz Unlimited transformed into?

• This actor had decided to retire his then unsuccessful acting career after nearly 14 years of struggle,
when his breakthrough film won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film and got him international
recognition.
• His film was also nominated for the BAFTA in the Best Film Not in the English Language category,
alongside Devdas (2002), making it the only year where two Indian productions were shortlisted for the
category.
Identify the actor and his breakthrough film.

Irrfan Khan, The Warrior (2001)

• While the international poster of the movie went with the tagline “All it took was the first act of
courage”, the Indian poster went along with the shlok: “यत्र नाययस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवता:।”. The shlok
ironically, is from Manusmriti.
• The 2015 movie is infamous for an on-screen nude scene.
Which film is this?

• In Student of The Year 2 (2019), Manav (Aditya Seal) invites Rohan (Tiger Shroff) to his birthday party. He
mentions that it's a superhero themed party, so Rohan should dress accordingly.
• Rohan’s first choice for the superhero who’s costume he'll wear is immediately shot down by Manav and
others present. He eventually dresses up as Spider-Man for the party.
What was Rohan’s first choice?

• In the Netflix series bard of Blood, one of the American sleeper agents goes by the alias of Sarah in
Pakistan. Her character’s actual name in the show is _______ ______.
• This is an obvious reference to a Hollywood actress famous for essaying the role of a NY journalist. She
won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for three
consecutive from 1999-2001, and then again in 2003 for the same role.
Name the actress.

• The character’s actual name in the show is Jessica Parker.
Sarah Jessica Parker

• He started out as an actor and worked in films like Professor (1962), Teesri Manzil (1966) and Chhaila
Babu (1967) among others.
• However, his most famous work was for a film where he used his two friends Virendra Singh Bias and Jai
Singh Rao Kalevar.
Who is being talked about?

• The names Jai and Veeru for Sholay (1975) were taken from his real-life friends.
Salim Khan

• The director claims that the idea for the film came from two experiences in her life:
1. Her mother, who started a successful spice business when her husband was facing setbacks in
business.
2. The brilliant art directors (some of them alumni of JJ School of Arts) she worked with during her
advertising stint.
• The struggles faced by these people despite being successful and well established in their careers
inspired her to make the film.
Which film?

• The director of course, is Gauri Shinde.
English Vinglish

• Code M is a 2020 ALT Balaji and Zee5 web series revolving around the Indian Army and starring Jennifer
Winget, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Biswas and Tanuj Virwani.
• In the show, Rajat Kapoor plays Col. Suryaveer Chauhan. Once during a lesson, he punishes a soldier and
asks him to do push ups till asked to stop. A few minutes later the soldier is exhausted and Chauhan asks
him to stop.
• He then asks a question to which the soldier replies “Thikane me, sir”. The question is a punny reference
to the famous catchphrase from a 2019 movie.
What punny question does he ask?

• The reference being “How’s The Josh?” from Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019).
“How’s The Hosh?”

• When they were auditioning for this minor character named Mini, the brief was that they wanted a hot,
stylish girl who would wear revealing clothes.
• The director remembers that when an assistant was taking these auditions, a woman walked in wearing
a burkha. The shocked assistant tried to explain to her that she had come for the wrong audition, to
which she replied “Camera chalu kar” and removed her burkha to reveal that she was wearing a bikini.
• She was cast just a day before the movie, and the director remembers her as disciplined and soft-
spoken, contrary to her image now.
Name the actress and the movie.

Rakhi Sawant in Main Hoon Na (2004)

• Naya Din Nai Raat is a 1974 film directed by A. Bhimsingh starring Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri.
• The story revolves around Sushma (Jaya Bhaduri) who runs away from her home and encounters
different men all played by Sanjeev Kumar.
• These multiple characters are representation of a concept, first mentioned in a Sanskrit text compiled
around 200 BC.
What concept?

• Sushma encounters nine men, based on the Navarasas, all portrayed by Sanjeev Kumar.
Navarasa

• GP _______ (6/7) was an assistant director in the office of Nasir Hussain, and also worked a fair bit on
multiple other things, including publicity designs etc.
• When Salim-Javed came across his name, they found it to be extremely fascinating and gave the name to
not one, but two famous villainous characters in two different films, both having a plot of multiple
siblings, released seven years apart. Both the films were blockbusters in their own right.
What iconic name did Mr. GP gave to Bollywood?

Shakaal
• Ajit in Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973)
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda in Shaan (1980)

• A film Blog tried to summarize the plot of the film:
“Horoscope, dead frog, cloudy sky, the moon, radio program, caste reservation, bicycle, Mount
Everest, women’s liberation, communism, sleeveless blouse, Yuri Gagarin, miniature book,
Nitrogen fixation, man on moon, terrorist tadpoles, computer, biology class, turtles, Hema Malini,
typewriter, sleazy magazines, hibernation, text inside nose, googly, James Bond, severed tongue,
fish rain, shoes in a temple, World War, assassin creed, Gandhi, illicit trade, the lake, goggles,
hopping currency, helium breath, counterfeit coins, underwater treasure, diamonds inside frogs,
fireworks, the zoo, explosives, town at night, dead man, visit of God, the Panchsheel Pact, foreign
tourists, Promise toothpaste, holy men, Fish keychain, Ram Rajya, food chain disruption, anti-
cooperation movement, birth control, bagpipes, gecko, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aviation centers,
Potassium Cyanide.”
• The film released about 25 years after it was made.
Which film is this?

• He’s composed music in toto for two films – one a short film, and the other a classic from the 1990s.
• Being trained as a sitarist and a vocalist, he immediately quit creating film music because of pressure and
inputs from producers as well as the music company.
• However, the music, often a lesser discussed part about the 1990s film, remains a classic owing to the
fondness of OP Nayyar’s music from the 1950s that the director and the music director had, and hence
the music also had the same feel.
Which film is this?

• The composer was Tushar Bhatia.
Andaz Apna Apna (1994)

• In the latter half of 1940s, this actress played the role of a nurse named Ching Lan, who marries the lead
of the film, played by her then husband, and they have a kid together called – Yinhua, which again is
played by their own kid, and literally means India and another country, as theirs is a marriage between
two nationalities.
Which film is this?

• The actress is Jayashree Kamulkar, who played Dwarkanath Kotnis’ wife, which in turn was played by her
real life husband and the film’s director, V. Shantaram.
Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani (1946)

• We remember this 1989 film for the first National Award (Special Mention) won by a young actor just
doing his third film. It also marked the Bollywood debut of legendary editor A. Sreekar Prasad, and
cinematographer Santhosh Sivan.
• However, we’d like to focus on the costumes. The costumes were done by one Partho Sengupta who had
already worked on big projects by then. The police costume was designed in such a way that it doesn't
tie up to a particular time and place, and gives a dystopian feel to it, since the film showcases a vision of
a corrupt, lawless dystopia.
• Partho, having worked on another project 2 years ago, picked the henchmen costume from that film and
adapted it to this film.
Name the two films.

Raakh (1989), Mr. India (1987)

• In the early 2000s, the Uttar Pradesh government created a special festival at the Chunar Fort, and
dedicated it to an iconic entity within the Indian pop cultural context.
• The UP government didn’t take permission from the creator as the copyright for the work ended in 1964.
The creator was miffed about something else a decade back from then as well, as the adaptation
misrepresented Aiyyary, perfect combination of yoga, dance, singing, make up and so on.
What festival was celebrated at the Chunar fort?

• The film review begins thus:
“It's kinda fitting that the character is now called Babban. Because it, ladies and gentlemen, as its
title suggests, is a B-movie. It's like one of those TLV Prasad films of the 1990s that revels in its
mediocrity, the kind of film that wouldn't normally get a theatrical release in Mumbai… As Devgan
pulls a pistol to his head to make suicide threats, we sorely wish he'd pull the trigger.”
Which film is this?

• This is a screengrab from the end-credits of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001).
• The blanked out name is of someone who made his/her debut for just a few seconds in K3G, and hasn’t
acted since. The person has, however, lent voice for the Hindi dubs of two big-ticket animated films.
Who was the debutant?

Aryan Khan
• Aryan Khan played young SRK in the opening credits of the film. The animated films (Hindi dub) he
worked as voice actor in, were The Incredibles (2004) and The Lion King (2019).

• Tinnu Verma is a director-actor known for directing Sunny Deol starrer Maa Tujhe Salaam (2002) and
acting in many films, the most notable of which was Mela (2000).
• He has won four Filmfare Awards in a category that was introduced in 1992 and stands second in the list
of most wins in the category. The leader in the list has 5 wins, each of which incidentally came after
Verma’s last award, despite him being much senior to Verma.
• He won the award for Khuda Gawah (1992), Border (1997), Arjun Pandit (1999) and Gadar (2001).
Which category is being talked about? Who has won it the most?

Best Action, Sham Kaushal
• The first ever Best Action Filmfare was won by Veeru Devgan for Phool
Aur Kaante (1991).
• Sham Kaushal has won it for Krrish (2006), Gangs of Wasseypur (2012),
Gunday (2014), Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Dangal (2016).

• Sometime in the second half of the 200x decade, Shankar Mahadevan attended the wedding of Ishitta
Arun (Ila’ Arun’s daughter) with musician Dhruv Ghanekar. There, he met someone who was invited by
Ila Arun, and gave him a break in Luck By Chance (2009).
• The person stayed on the periphery of the industry, but gained widespread fame after his 2012
collaborations with Amit Trivedi, one of which was about a villager who is powerful, restrained and
successful and falls in love with a young girl.
Who did Shankar Mahadevan meet?

Mame Khan
• Mame Khan sang a majority of “Baawre” from Luck By Chance, and was credited as Mumay Khan. The
2012 collaborations were “Chaudhary” and “Badri Badariya” from Coke Studio.

• In the early 1990s, one of the senior-most actors from the NSD repertory got an offer to work in a BBC
series in England, based on Hanif Qureshi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. At the same time, he was also on
the verge of getting cast in Bertolucci’s Little Buddha. He also got three of his series cleared by
Doordarshan. Amidst all this, when a senior director came to cast him for a film, the actor refused,
saying he was busy.
• In a matter of weeks, each of the three DD series got cancelled, his offer for the BBC series got revoked,
and someone else was cast in the role for Little Buddha. In the meantime, the director had completed his
casting for the film. “Na sirf repertory ke log, balki Mandi House ka har actor ___________ mein kuch na
kuch kar raha tha”, is what the actor says.
• Some days later, while the actor was doing a play called “Khabsoorat Bahu” with Seema Biswas, the
director had come to watch. After the play, this actor was cast in a major role – one that didn’t exist in
the director’s script, he wrote it for the actor.
Identify the actor, and the film that gave him his big break.

Saurabh Shukla, Bandit Queen (1994)
• The director of course, was Shekhar Kapur.

• Manish Mundra is a businessman who went to Nigeria in the late 1990s
for employment opportunities, and now serves as the CEO and MD of
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals.
• In 2011, he saw a tweet by a filmmaker he greatly admired, and agreed
to help monetarily in whatever way possible. A detailed discussion led
to Manish setting up his production house, and also investing in the film
of course.
• The film went on to win the filmmaker his first Filmfare awards – Best
Story as well as Best Film (Critics), while the protagonist too won a Best
Actor (Critics) award.
Which production house is this? Which was their first film?

Drishyam Films, Aankhon Dekhi (2014)

• Mekaal Hassan Band (MHB) is a an international sufi rock band formed in Lahore in 2000 by composer,
singer-songwriter and guitarist Meekal Hasan. Former members of the band include renowned singer
Javed Bashir, who lent his voice to “Saanwal”, arguably the band’s most famous song, released in 2004.
• In 2015, MHB performed in episodes 1 and 5 of season 8 of Coke Studio (Pakistan), with the brilliant
songs “Sayon” and “Kinaray”.
• These performances are proof of an oft-claimed ‘first’ being wrong, as that came in 2016, a full year
after this.
What is the often misattributed ‘first’ being talked about here?

First Indian singer to sing in Coke Studio Pakistan.
• The lead singer of MHB is Kolkata-born Sharmistha Chatterjee, who naturally also lent her vocals to
“Sayon” and “Kinaray”, a good one year before Shilpa Rao sang “Paar Channa De”.

• These are images from Panipat (2019). The actor seen here is portraying the role of Shuja-ud-Daulah, the
Nawab of Awadh, who after much deliberation, went on to support Ahmed Shah Abdali in the Third
Battle of Panipat.
• The actor seen here, one of cinematic royalty, made his mainstream debut in Ahista Ahista (1981)
opposite Padmini Kolhapure.
• He stopped acting in 1987 to focus on production, and made a return to the big screen with Singh Is
Bliing (2015), playing Amy Jackson’s father.
Who is the actor portraying this character?

Kunal Kapoor, s/o Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal

• The story goes that one day, while playing with his son Aarav, lyricist Manoj Muntashir asked him the age
old question comparing parental love, and his son chose his mother. This led to Manoj blurting out
something, which he realized was a universal feeling and could be used in a song some day.
• When he eventually tried to use the words for a 2016 film, it was discussed that the male protagonist
wasn’t very forthright, so he might not say those words. So the gender was changed, and the song
became a female song.
• The song fetched Palak Muchhal a Filmfare nomination, as well as a Screen award. A male version too,
was released later, sung by Armaan Malik.
What were the lines, that Manoj Muntashir blurted out to his son?

“Kaun Tujhe Yun Pyaar Karega, Jaise Main Karta Hoon”
• The song was supposed to be a Sushant song, but realizing that Dhoni wouldn’t be so direct, it became a
Disha Patani song.

• After attending a concert in Birmingham in 1979, an industry legend decided to invite Ustad Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan, a relatively unknown name in India, to Mumbai for a performance at his son’s sangeet
ceremony.
• Given that this was Nusrat sahab’s first performance in India, he performed a rendition of a Meerabai
bhajan, one that he had not covered till then. Among the many other adaptations of the bhajan is one
that was sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy for the SRK – Madhuri starrer Koyla (1997). It remains the only
Meera bhajan that Nusrat sahab ever covered, and was also performed by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in his
2016 MTV Unplugged India performance.
Whose wedding did Nusrat sahab perform at? Which bhajan was this?

Rishi Kapoor, “Saanson Ki Mala Pe”

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