4. 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?
5. Ans: Dadasaheb Phalke
6. 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 Presidents National Award for film 3 times and also
prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for lifetime
achievement.Identify the legend?
7. Ans:Bhupen Hazarika
8. 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_________
9. Ans: Happy New Year
10. 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 conductors comments,anecdotes were being observed in
the bus by Balraj Sahni.Who was this legend?
11. Ans: Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi aka Johnny Walker
12. 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?
13. Ans:Om Prakash
14. 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?
15. Ans: Sachin Tendulkar
16. 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?
17. Ans: X-Shankar & Y-Jaikishan
18. Ans: Kishore Kumar
19. 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?
20. Ans: Rajkumar Hirani and PK
21. 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 ___
22. Ans: K.A.Abbas
23. Q16.This 1984 movie was based on a play written by Mahesh
Elkunchwar.The movie was directed by Ketan Mehta. [VIDEO]
24. Ans: Holi
25. 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 cant 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!
26. Ans: Bimal Roy Productions
27. Q18.Identify the character played by Naseeruddin Shah,the
movie and whose work the movie is based? [VIDEO]
28. Ans; Inspector Ghote. Movie: The Perfect Murder Work:
H.R.F.Keating
29. 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.
30. Ans: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
31. Q20.The technology and practice were pioneered at Kolkatas
innovative New Theatres studios,apparently at the suggestion of the
studios 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?
32. Ans: Playback singing
33. 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?
34. Ans: Sholay
35. Q22. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras,reader and chairman of
Modern Indian Languages at AMU,was filmed having consensual sex
with a rickshaw puller. It didnt 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?
36. Ans: Aligarh
37. Q23.Identify the movie?
38. Ans: Gour Hari Dastaan
39. 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.
40. Ans: X-Salim Khan;Y- Javed Akhtar
41. Q25.Identify,what has been blanked out.
42. Q26.
43. Ans: Suman Kalyanpur & Madan Mohan
44. 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?
46. 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 ____
47. Ans: X-Subhash Ghai and ILU ILU
48. 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?