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Q1 - CONNECT….?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!

Answer - Guiness Record Holders in Bollywood!
Most typecast Actor,
144 films played cop
Most Songs
Penned
Most Songs
Recorded in
a Day
Most recorded artist
in music history
Largest Screen Family
(24 members)
Fewest actors in a
narrative film, Yaadein
Longest production – 20
years!
Longest film career
Debut at 12

This is the X Culture Exhibit Hall and theme park in Suwon
city, South Korea which officially opened in 2012. It is the
brainchild of Sim Jae-Duck also known as Mr.X
He got this name since he wanted to solve a certain aspect of
the city leading to the Football World Cup
The Korean name for this place is Haewoojae, loosely
translated as “a place of sanctuary where one can solve one’s
worries"
Q2 – Identify X….?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!

The author had initially used the number 18 in the title of the book but his publishers
did not want it to be confused with Leon Uris’s recently published novel Mila 18. He
then suggested 11, which was rejected because the film Ocean’s Eleven had just been
released. 17 was rejected because of Stalag 17, as was 14, because it was not a “funny
number”. What number was finally used?
Q3 – Whats the Number?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!

Q4 – Whats the Name of the Place?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
What place gets a large part of its name from the Persian word for Falcon and the
origin of the name comes from from a poem of Allama Iqbal's (Muhammad Iqbal)
called Bal-e-Jibril. This was written as a clarion call to youngsters to rise and achieve
their objectives

Q5 – Identify this Singer
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!

Q6 – What Happened?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
The producers of the movie were very happy with the success of this iconic movie.
However, the music sales of the movie were not as popular as the movie. The
makers were wondering why. They went to watch the movie in theatre and then
made some changes to the audio cassette. After this change, the album sales
reached an unprecedented 500,000 units.
Identify the movie and the change?

Answer: Sholay & They added dialogues of the movie
to the audio cassette

Q7 – Identify X & Y?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
Poster of an upcoming
movie Starring X based
on the life of Y?

Answer: Vicky Kaushal & Field Marshall Manekshaw

Q8 – What is it Called?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
This Bajaj mini-car shares its
cho-chweet name with that
given by James Bond to Ann
Reilly, the gadest mistress in the
14 novels that John Gardner
wrote. What is it called?

Q9 – Which Song?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
The music video for this song was the first to use green screen technology in India
to enable its singer to superimpose his image over various computer generated
backgrounds like a desert, mountain landscape as well as the St Basil’s Cathedral.
The title of the song is a reference from sounds made by a Tumbi/Tumba, a
traditional music instrument from Punjab?
Identify the song and Singer?

Answer: Daler Mehendi & Tunak Tunak Tun

Q10 – Which Power Couple?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
Higher Ground Productions, a production company set up in partnership with
Netflix, recently announced its first slate, which includes a biopic of anti-slavery
campaigner Frederick Douglass, an adaptation of Michael Lewis “The Fifth Risk”,
the family show “Listen To Your Vegetables & Eat you Parents”, and disability rights
feature doc “Crip-Camp”.
Which power couple is the moving force behind Higher Ground?

Answer: Michelle Obama & Barack Obama

Q11 – Which Industry?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
This is a new term in town following the impact of Covid , “Cabbage Prices”
It isn’t actually the prices of cabbage, with which industry would you associate the
term?

Q12 – Whats shaking the earth?
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
Michoacan state in Mexico produces half of the annual global volume of this crop
known as “green gold”, 5 billion kilos of which are consumed worldwide every year.
But the boom in demand over the last decade or so, especially in North America
and Europe has meant a substantial damage caused to the environment. The top
concern is per Litre utilization of water for each produce.
This crop is also associated with earthquakes having caused about 3247 seismic
movements between Jan 5 and Feb 15 this year in the area surrounding where this
is produced the most
What is this earth shaking produce?

Q13 – Identify the Movie
5 4 3 2 1 TIME UP!
Identify the iconic movie all these actors rejected

A place that inspired iconic beginnings
In the late 1800s, the building now known as the
Esplanade Mansion in Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda circle was
among the plushest luxury hotels in Bombay. In 1896,
the hotel was the venue for the “miracle of the
century” – the Indian premiere of the Lumiere
Brothers’ collection of six short films, which led directly
to the introduction of motion pictures in India.
What other iconic (and nearby) landmark is this hotel
supposed to have unintentionally given rise to? This
very landmark also caused the hotel to go out of
business in the 1900s.
(Need a full explanation of the connect)

The Taj Group / The Taj Mahal Palace
The story goes that Jamshetji Tata came up with
the idea for Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Hotel after he
was denied entry into what was then The Watson
Hotel.
Ironically, the Tatas owned the Esplanade Mansion
for a while, circa 1960-65, when several of the Taj
Mahal Hotel’s employees were allotted quarters
here.

Intermissionsin early films throughout the world had a practical purpose: they were
needed to facilitate the changing of reels.
However in the early years of cinema exhibition in India, breaks were much more frequent, as the projector would get hot.
Also, the reels were often of poor quality, full of scratches and cuts and the equipment was less than fully operational.
To compensate, exhibitors introduced extraneous entertainment like dances, magic shows and even boxing bouts on the
stage.
What very common ingredient of Indian films is this practice supposed to have given rise to?

This laid the foundation for unconnected entertainment elements such as songs, dances and even comedy tracks
being interspersed with talkie portions of films in Indian cinema.

Trailersare a fixture in the cinema viewing experience today. Every film is preceded by several
minutes of trailers showcasing other films. However this was not always the case.
When the practice of showing “trailers” began, they actually came at the END of the cinema – hence the name. Before
they became a vehicle to promote other movies, what purpose did these trailers serve originally?
Incidentally this is very similar to an element that is part of every fiction episode created on GEC.
(Looking for either the actual term for this element or, if you don’t know it, an explanation of why it was included at the end)

Trailers were originally the equivalent of TV’s “Precap”. In this era, a lot of movies were made in serialized fashion,
similar to the serialized novels published in parts in weekly / monthly magazines.
The first “trailer” appeared in 1912 at the end of the serialized movie, The Adventures of Kathlyn. At the end of the reel,
Kathlyn was thrown in the lion's den. After this "trailed" a piece of film that asked in text "Does she escape the lion's pit?
See next week's thrilling chapter!“
The idea of luring customers back to the theater was the birth of modern movie marketing. These precaps opened the
door to previewing other pieces of entertainment at the end of each film.

In the early years of Indian cinema, most films were mythologicals. One reason for this was that Hollywood films
had dominant market share in India, given their large scale productions. To compete effectively, Indian producers
turned to themes that would attract maximum audiences.
(Some things never change)
What was the other, more subversive, reason most producers opted for mythologicals?
In fact, within these mythologicals, movie makers sometimes had peculiar anachronistic scenes or songs, which would
have made more sense in a current day story. For instance, in the movie “Bhakta Vidur”, Vidur is imprisoned, and in
prison shown wearing a strangely modern piece of headgear, despite the story being set in the times of the
Mahabharata.
Why? Bonus points for guessing the headgear being referred to.

The British set up a censor board to stop Indians
from using cinema to stir up nationalist sentiments.
To circumvent this, most movies were passed off as
ostensibly “safe” mythologicals.
But within these “mythos”, there were often
nationalistic or social-message driven songs.
Symbolism was also used very effectively.
For instance, in Bhakt Vidur, Vidur is shown sitting in
prison, wearing a Gandhi cap and using a charkha.
Vidur also tells peasants they needn’t feel
awkward about denying taxes to the state. Bhakta
Vidur was banned eventually.

What connects these iconic yesteryears Indian movie stars?

They were not Indian!
Left to right: Fearless Nadia (Aussie), Nadira (Iraqi) and Helen (Burmese)

Throughoutthe history of Bollywood, there have been South Indian actresses that have
made it very big – starting with Vyjayantimala and continuing with Waheeda Rahman, Hema Malini, Rekha and Sridevi.
One reason this trend began is because even in the 50s, most successful movies were made in all three top-grossing
languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi – one after the other. So when these actresses starred in successful Tamil / Telugu
movies, they were also signed up for the Hindi remakes, and that gave them an entry into Hindi cinema.
What other skill helped these actresses break into Bollywood, often despite their limited knowledge of Hindi? This skill
came into especially high demand because of the introduction of Technicolor in the 50s. (Full explanation
needed of why the demand increased for this skill)

They were skilled dancers.
When Technicolor was introduced, movies often chose to have atleast special features such as dances shot in
colour. As a result, classical dance sequences started to become more elaborate and what is today known as an item
song (albeit not risque) was usually put into a movie to create buzz around it as an ‘extra’ attraction.
The movement of good dancers across languages therefore became relatively common.

Identify X and Y.
This pair of musical collaborators remains one of the most
prolific and successful in Indian cinema history. When Y
was a newbie and struggling to make ends meet, X
(already established by then) included Y and his brothers
in his orchestra when he performed stage shows.
In those days, X would present a number of Hindi hits
during his shows because they were more popular than
songs in the native language of their state. Y played the
harmonium with both hands, and reproduced hits from
movies like Aradhana with great skill.
They went on to collaborate on hundreds of superhit
songs, dominating the 80s. X became the star attraction of
most of Y’s stage shows.
Subsequently they also had a major falling out but
recently publicly buried the hatchet.

X – SP Balasubramaniam
Y - Ilayaraja

Identify this iconic actor and singer. She made her acting debut with the movie
Sevasadanam - one of the early films to be set in a contemporary social setting and to advocate reformist social
policies. It is known as an "unusual film" for choosing the subject of marriages between young girls and old men.
Coincidentally, this was how her real life subsequently played out as well, and her wedding is said to have
conferred a higher social status and a legitimacy which she never had earlier.

Identify the show
Identify the completely
blacked out actor

Audio
Identify the lady who has sung both the song on the left, and a song which would have been very much in
vogue in these times of “Atmanirbharta”, if only it weren’t 20 years old…

Identify their much more popular sibling
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