Irani to Hirani: Bollywood quiz
- 1. Irani to Hirani Bollywood Quiz
- 2. The first talkie of India Alam Ara in 1931 by Ardeshir Irani was advertised with the tagline "All living. Breathing. 100 per cent talking". There is an incorrect report in the media about this movie in the year 2003 which was denied by the concerned authorities. Name it.
- 3. It was incorrectly reported that the last known prints of ALAM ARA in Pune's film archives, were damaged by a fire in 2003 when in fact no copy was ever possessed by the film archive.
- 4. How do we know Sampooran Singh Kalra born in Jhelum District in British India (now in Pakistan) in1934?
- 6. X is an original Marathi word meaning "blossomed“or fully fertile which during its evolution/progression started as its application to someone with high youth elements or budding hormones and subsequent behaviour of that animal/humans to establish control, create mischief, attract attention of opposite sex and other such indulgences. X is associated with words which were considered "not decent" to use in regular language and are mostly used by people who are deemed anti-social . Name X .
- 8. Meena Kumari in the Best Actress category at 10th Filmfare Awards, 1963. Mohammed Rafi in the Best Male Playback Singer category at 16th Filmfare Awards, 1969. Asha Bhosle in the Best Female Playback Singer category at 20th Filmfare Awards, 1973. Kishore Kumar in the Best Male Playback Singer category at 32nd Filmfare Awards, 1985. Alka Yagnik in the Best Female Playback Singer category at 39th Filmfare Awards, 1994 CONNECT
- 9. Artists with all nominations in a single category
- 10. The first Indian film to achieve this was Disco Dancer. The first Indian film with which this term came into prominence was Ghajini. Identify the term widely used now to indicate the success of a movie.
- 12. In 1971, Lata Mangeshkar made this unusual gesture. In 1979, Asha Bhosle emulated her elder sister and requested the same to Filmfare authorities. What was the request?
- 13. Not to consider them for Filmfare awards anymore
- 14. Hamid Ali Khan better known by his stage name Ajit, acted in over two hundred movies over almost four decades mainly as a villain. He mainly acted as a smuggler who deals with gold biscuits. Name his accomplice who was immortalised by his famous dialogue. A 2017 horror movie has the same name.
- 16. Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role was instituted in 1991 and continued till 2007. Though X did not get a nomination for his most iconic villain role, he got 7 nominations in this category but never won. Identify X.
- 18. Raakh, is a 1989 crime thriller from Aditya Bhattacharya . The film tells the story of a young man avenging the rape of his ex-girlfriend (played by Supriya Pathak). Despite a poor reception at the box office, the film was critically acclaimed. X who played the hero was awarded a National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention for his performance, his only acting award at Nationals so far. Name X.
- 20. X was originally nominated as the best child artist in the movie awards; but x protested and made himself nominated in best actor category. He eventually won critics award for best actor in Filmfare and Zee cine Awards. Name X .
- 22. In 2002, two biopics were made in Bollywood about X. One had X’s name in title starring Ajay devgan and the other had an important date of X’s life in its title starring Bobby Deol. Identify X.
- 24. Bhagyasree Patwardhan, the princess of Sangli never made it big in Bollywood despite a sensational debut. The reason being her insistence on something. What is it?
- 25. She wanted her husband Himalay as the hero of her films; 3 flops and it all ended
- 26. CONNECT
- 28. CONNECT THE FOUR MOVIES
- 29. The theme of reincarnation was popularised in Western popular culture through Bollywood films, with Madhumati (1958) inspiring the Hollywood film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975),which in turn inspired the Bollywood film Karz (1980), which in turn influenced another Hollywood film Chances Are (1989).
- 30. He wrote a book in 2002 called Soul Curry for you and me – An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life. In the early 80s, he authorised the use of his likeness for the comic book character Supremo. Identify him.
- 32. In a 2011 interview with Mumbai Mirror, Boom producer Ayesha Shroff said: "We created an identity for her. She was this pretty young English girl, we thought we'd give her some kind of Indian ancestry, to connect with the audience and we gave her a surname after a cricketer at that time. “ The actor denied these and called this comments hurtful. Name the actor.
- 34. The movie X had a Hong Kong remake, The Brothers (1979) which went on to inspire John Woo's internationally acclaimed breakthrough A Better Tomorrow (1986)which set the template for the heroic bloodshed genre in Hong Kong action cinema. X also inspired Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire . Identify X which had an iconic dialogue.
- 36. When Shaan and Kailash Kher shared the best playback singer award for the same song ,the interesting part was that kailash sang just one word only. What was it?
- 38. During the film fare award function of 1978, the guests watched as a bride and bridegroom in their wedding attire rushed to the function. Name the bridegroom who has a record number of film fare awards to his credit(19 in 5 languages).
- 40. Before becoming a star, X used to sing for movies. He once made fun of the Urdu pronunciation of Lata Mangeshkar, a new entrant at that time. Later, she made her Urdu so perfect that he had to really struggle to catch up with her when they recorded together. Who is X who totally gave up playback singing and went on to be a superstar ?
- 42. Roadside Romeo is a 2008 3D Indian-American computer animated romantic musical comedy family film written and directed by Jugal Hansraj, produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films. Which popular couple gave the voice for the male and female protagonists of the movie?
- 44. The movie X was supposed to be the Magnum Opus of Subhash Ghai. X, the warrior poet had two music directors ;Rahman and Ismail Darbar. It was a big flop and almost destroyed the career of Vivek Oberoi as a hero. Name X.
- 46. Prabhat Film Company popularly known as Prabhat Films was an Indian film production company and film studios founded in 1929 by the noted film director V.Shantaram and his friends. They went on to produce 45 films which were considered as classics. What will you see if you visit this premise now?
- 48. Baz Luhrmann stated that his musical film X (2001) was directly inspired by Bollywood musicals. The film incorporated an Indian-themed play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama Mṛcchakatika and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the film China Gate called Chamma Chamma.
- 50. On 1 November 2018 , Yash Raj Films partnered with Google, replacing the navigation symbol on all Google Maps services in India with the character from a movie who occasionally recites dialogue from the movie. In spite of this marketing strategy , the movie did not perform well. Name the movie.
- 52. Mumbai’s iconic Maratha Mandir — which has been running the movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) for the past two decades had another first in 2017. For the first time in 22 years, the film’s matinee show was cancelled for the trailer screening of the movie X . Manoj Desai, executive director of Maratha Mandir Cinema, said the makers of the film thought of launching the trailer there as X lived in Dongri, which is very close to Maratha Mandir. Identify X whose brother is more known to us.
- 54. The person shown in this picture is the music director Ram Laxman of hit films like Maine Pyar Kiya (1989), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) and Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999). What is peculiar about his name?
- 55. Raamlaxman(Vijay Pandit) is the "Laxman" of duo composers "Raam- Laxman". In 1976, Raam died and Laxman continued to retain Raam's name in Marathi as well as Hindi films.
- 56. Krsna Solo (born Amitav Sarkar) is a music composer, who debuted with the popular Hindi film "Tanu Weds Manu" in 2011. One of his mentionable international score is for the documentary called X by Leslee Udwin.
- 58. Movie names inspired from song lyrics is a common thing in Bollywood. However, a recently released movie used an iconic movie dialogue as a song though the lyrics are literally translated to English. Identify the dialogue.
- 60. X’s father asked him to apply to the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, but the acting course had shut down and his chances of admission to the directorial course looked slim as there were far too many applicants. So X opted for the editing course, and earned a scholarship. X tried his luck as a film editor for many years. Bad experiences forced him to shift to advertising. But once he was back to films in 2003, there was no turning back. Id X.