1. The document is a Bollywood quiz with multiple choice questions about famous Hindi movies and songs.
2. One question asks about an 1960s English movie that was later remade in Hindi based on a book in collaboration with Pearl S. Buck.
3. Another question asks about identifying the singer of a famous song from the 1941 movie Jhoola and the singer of the "transformed" version of the same song in 1968.
4. A question also asks about which movie featured Mukesh, Kishore, Rafi and Lata singing together, which is a rare occurrence.
2. Courtesy
Bobby Sing – Did you know (most of the questions from this book)
And my Bollywood Gurus – Kishan, Deepa & Prabha
And Vikash Modi for giving me the above book
3. 1. Which famous Movie
This 1960s Hindi movie was first actually made in English in
collaboration with Pearl S Buck & Tad Danielewski as Director
This movie was based on a book
4. 2.Identify the song or X or Y
Y was the actor/singer of this famous song in the movie Jhoola in 1941,
directed by Gyan Mukerji. Music was by Saraswati Devi
In 1968, the same song was “transformed” where X was the playback
singer, who was responsible for bring this track back. Music director
was RD. Song is a cult song?
5. 3. Which movie had below singers together and
what is unique about this combination
6. 4. Which character
This comic book character conceals his identity by wearing large glasses
which resemble welding glasses, a skin-tight costume with a wrap
which resembles those worn by fishermen on India's western coast,
and a chakra pendant. He loves peanuts and "music is his passion",
which is why he carries a Walkman. _____ has two helpers, boys
named Vijay and Anthony. He also has a dolphin named Sonali, and a
falcon scout Shaheen
This was the brainchild of Pammi Bakshi, editor of Movie magazine,
who developed the series for her magazine's publisher, India Book
House (IBH), under their imprint Star Comics. In an interview, Pammi
Bakshi stated that the name _____ came about from actor Randhir
Kapoor's tag for superstar _______
7. 5. Which movie or Identify A, B
Character A – First given to SRK, who turned down to back
problems/neck injury(he is credited by producers for helping on the
script), second it was given to Vivek Oberoi, and latter to Jimmy Shergill
and latter to X. (Jimmy was still part of the movie though)
Character B – Orginal choice was Makrand Deshpande. Finally played
by Y, who won the Filmfare in 2004
8. 6. Which Singer or Movie
This was the debut for this singer in Hindi movies. The music was
composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand
Bakshi. The Music directors felt that this singer couldn’t do justice to
hindi composition and were not keen. However the Director felt that
this Singer would do justice to the Character, who could not speak hindi
and even if the singer bleshmised the song, it would capture the
character
This singer got nominated for the best playback male National film
awards
9. 7. Which movie
X, was supposed to play a certain character and opted for another
character as he would get more time with that heroine whom he was in
love with. He recommended Y, who was in the movie and Y
recommended Z. Z bought his costumes from Chor Bazaar in Mumbai.
Z’s voice was weak felt the script writers, who never worked with him
Z has only 9 scenes in the entire movie.