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Ahmedabad Quiz Club
Q.M:Anubhav Chatterjee

Ans: National school of Drama

 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?

 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
President’s National Award for film 3 times and also prestigious
Dadasaheb Phalke award for lifetime achievement.Identify the
legend?

 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_________

 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 conductor’s comments,anecdotes were being observed
in the bus by Balraj Sahni.Who was this legend?

Ans: Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi aka Johnny Walker

 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?

 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”?

 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?

Ans: X-Shankar & Y-Jaikishan

 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?

Ans: Rajkumar Hirani and PK

 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 ___

 Q16.This 1984 movie was based on a play written by Mahesh
Elkunchwar.The movie was directed by Ketan Mehta.
 [VIDEO]

 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 can’t 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!

 Q18.Identify the character played by Naseeruddin Shah,the
movie and whose work the movie is based?
 [VIDEO]

Ans; Inspector Ghote.
Movie: The Perfect Murder
Work: H.R.F.Keating

 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.

Ans: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

 Q20.The technology and practice were pioneered at Kolkata’s
innovative New Theatres studios,apparently at the suggestion
of the studio’s 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?

 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?

 Q22. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras,reader and chairman of
Modern Indian Languages at AMU,was filmed having
consensual sex with a rickshaw puller. It didn’t 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?

 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.

Ans: X-Salim Khan;Y- Javed Akhtar

Q25.Identify,what has been blanked out.

Ans: Suman Kalyanpur & Madan Mohan

 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?

 Ans:X-Mehmood;Y- Bhola,Z- R.D.Burman
 Movie: Padosan

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 ____

 Ans: X-Subhash Ghai and ILU ILU

 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?

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