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1

A poem that came in Kala Kaumudi sometime back. The poet and the person to whom it is addressed studied together. Id both

K Jayakumar , Jagathy Sreekumar

2

Rajeev Nath had planned a movie ‘Ezham

Mudra’ (Seventh Seal) with Suresh Gopi and

Mandira Bedi with the Sri Lankan civil war as

backdrop. He planned this movie as his tribute

to an alltime classic. Which one?

3

Whose obituary?

ചീ�രു� അമ്മഅറി�യാനി�ലെ അമ്മ

4

From which movie is this song?

The Russian song from Neelaponman

5

Thaikkoru Thaalattu starring Shivaji Ganesan was a remake of a Malayalam movie. Both were directed by the same person. This remains his only Tamil directorial venture though he had some unsuccessful attempts later. Who was the director?-.

Directed by Balachandra menon.

Remake of his Oru Painkili Katha

6

When TV Chandran went to register the his movie KrishnanKutty in film chamber he was asked to have the name of company producing it.Since he had not thought about any name the one that came to his mind was used -Under what name, which kind of indicated his then current state was this movie registered and released?

Illayma Movies ( ഇല്ലായാ�മ )

On the title it was shown as Illaymayude Krishnankutty

7This title was initially planned for a Shyamaprasad project starring Mammootty. This project never materialized and Mammootty later acted in a Ranjith movie of the same title. On whose novel was the Shyamaprasad movie based on? Id the title of the novel as well(no half points)

Anchu cent By Malayatoor Ramakrishnan

8 K Padmanabhan Nair was among the people who were responsible for setting up Malayala Samajam in Madras. Once when Radio was considered a luxury, he happened to hear a Malayalam radio drama which had heavy Tamil influence in its language. A letter to the AIR station resulted in him being involved in the first ‘true’ Malayalam Radio drama. He soon joined AIR and was instrumental in starting programs like Chithravani, Navamadhuri, Madhurima etc. The question is about a program the he conceptualized while in AIR which had a huge market long back but is unheard of these days. Which one?

Chalachithra Shabdarekha

9

During the years 1972, 1974-81 and 1984 one

category of State film award had 2 winners. This

was not a duo working on a single project but was

always for their work in different movies. Which

category and why?

Best Cinematography - ColorBest Cinematography - B&W

List

List them

Among the winners of best cinematography award (state), Who all have won for their work in a Color and B&W movie?(first n ‘answers’ will be considered)These are for the awards they won specifically for a Color and a B&W film separately.

Mankada Ravi Varma : Swayamvaram, Utharayanam,Mukhamukham (B&W) Elipathayam, Nokkukuthi, Nizhalkoothu (color)

Balu Mahendra Chuvanna Sandyakal ,Prayanam(B&W) Nellu (Color)

Madhu Ambat Aswadhama, Sooryente Maranam, Yaaro Oraal (B&W) Amaram Purushartham and Swathi Tirunal(Color)

10 Reminiscence of Director Rajeevnath on Venu Nagavally

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11After Murapennu was released producer Shobana

Parameswaran Nair received a letter requesting him to

send the romantic dialogues between Balan and Bhagi.

This was sent to him by some ladies working as circus

artistes in Bombay.He discussed this with MT. What was

the outcome of this?

First screenplay book based on a movie was

published for Murapennu

12Long back Toms publication used to publish a film magazine. They tried to differentiate themselves from the existing set of film magazines by the choice of stories they published.Either name the magazine or tell me what were the only news items that they used to publish

Superstars

Carried only stories about Mammootty and Mohanlal

13During the 90’s Jayaraj had announced a movie titled ‘Red Indians’ with Suresh Gopi in the lead.The shooting was planned outside of Kerala.Shortly the project got shelved as another movie with the same theme got announced and started work. Which was this other movie ?

14When Shaji Kailas and Ranji Panicker had the story idea of Aram Thampuran

they were planning it for certain actor. Maniyanpilla Raju who knew about the

project was insistent on Mohanlal playing it. He even met producer Suresh

Kumar to say that such a story is being planned but will come out good only if

Lal plays it. When Suresh Kumar and Raju went to Shaji and Ranjith they were

not sure about Lal and told that their first choice was someone else. They were

ready to see if this will work on Mammooty but not really on Mohanlal. Who was

their first choice?

15 Tamil movie Dayalan was released in Kerala in packed

house but on the fourth day, Travancore government banned

the movie. When the distributors made enquiry they came to

know that the royals did not like the plot of the movie - A good

king, cunning dewan who grabs power after putting the King in

Jail. The Kings brother escapes and later returns for revenge

by killing the dewan. On being released from jail the king

proclaims democracy.

The distributors and P Subrahmaniam came out with a plan to

rescue the movie which was accepted. What was the solution

proposed? Looking for a specific answer

Formation of a censor board in Travancore. The members - Chief Secretary, IG of Police, TVM Mayor, Chidambaram(Secretary to CP) and P Subramaniam

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17 +ർഷങ്ങൾഏതൊറതൊചിന്ന� ഒര�ക്കുൽഒര�ത്തി�ക��ലൂ�ൽ ______

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Mani kaul

18 Long back, for some Udaya movies , There was an extra

clipping shown in theatres along with the movie .One was

of a Congress Sevadal camp which was attended by Nehru

and also another announcement by someone who was

sitting on a horse and saying these words - “ ഈ കു�തി�രുലെയാഞാൻഇതിഅഴി�ച്ചു�

വി�ടു�ന്നു�. ചീ�ണയാ�ലെ�ങ്കി�ൽഇതി�ലെനി പി�ടു�ച്ചു� ലെകുട്ടാമോമ ?

തി�രു�വിനിന്തപി�രുത്ത്� ഹജൂ(ർ കുമോച്ചുരു�യാ�ൽ ഇതി� ഓടു�”കുയാറി�നിടുക്കും�,

Why was he saying this?

Mannath Padmanabhan

Vimochanasamaram

A long visual connect

20 visuals, connect themPoints: 1-4 50 points 5-8 40 points

9-12 30 points13-16 20 points17-20 10 points

-10 for a wrong attempt

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Projects that were shelved post announcement/shooting

Bali Sugreeva yudham (Balachandra Menon with Mammootty and Jayaram)Che Guevara (Joshiy Mohanlal)Batman(Dileep Johny Antony)Suvarna Kshethram (Nazeer Jayabharathi)Nala Damayanti (Udaya’s Nazeer movie)Ettu Veettil Pillamar (Sathyan Nazeer)Iratty Vavachan (Shaji Kailas Mammootty)Kanyakumari to Kashmir (Produced and directed by nazeer)Colonel (Shaji Kailas Mammootty)Gateway of India (Suresh Gopi , Shajoon Karyal)

Kunjana Nambiar (priyan Mohanlal)Karnan (Jayan)Ceaser (Hariharan , Mammootty and Mohanlal)Sakhavu( PA Bakker movie with Premkumar)Sherlock Holmes (Anoop Menon playing a character Zacharia Pothen. Interestingly Zacharia Pothen Jeevichiruppundu was a shelved project of Ranjith involving Mohanlal )President (Boban and Molly movie)Paramadhikaram(Mammootty as Adv Nandagopal Marar, Shaji Kailas)Bheesmar (Lohithadas Mohanlal)Dhanushkodi (Priyadarshan Mohanlal)Hello Mayavi (Characters of Hello and Mayavi)

History records him as the one who unified and became the first king of a land. A different form of the picture shown here appears in one Malayalam movie, shown mocking at a person. Which movie?

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Yodha

Prithwi Narayan Shah, First King of Nepal

20 A new experiment in Indian movies at those times, this movie by Velappan Nair starred Keralasree Sunny, Santo Krishnan, ‘Kerala Gama’ Polachira Ramachandran etc . Which movie is this? What was the experiment?

Aryankavu Kollasangham, No dialogues. His aim was to establish that acting was primary, dialogues only secondary.

21Released in 1975 and written by Vayalar,

Id the 2 names blanked out from this song from Suryavamsam

Emile Zola Van Gough

Reverse

22 Connect them

AKG documentary and Thakarachenda was

released together as a package. A viewer

could purchase one ticket to watch both the

movies.

23 Connect

National film award - second best feature film - discontinued. Malayalam winners - Thulabharam, Oppol and Pokkuveyil

24He agreed to be a part of this IV Sasi movie(X) released in 1979 starring Soman without taking pay because the makers could not meet the minimum fee prescribed by the actors union.The reason for him to act without taking a pay was because in early 70’s he acted(uncredited) in a movie(Y) appearing in a single scene. He was so overwhelmed by the lead actor’s performance in Y that when a ‘similar’ role(as per him) was offered, he agreed to do it for free. Name the 2 movies

Actor is Henry Marshal

X-Ezham Kadalinakkare

Y - Godfather

25 When Azhagappan was shooting for the movie Photographer, in one interview he mentioned that he was having a deja vu while filming the movie. Filming the travails of the protagonist of the film, who is caught between the pressures of officialdom and his conscience, Azhagappan related this to his own experience on an earlier work he undertook. As per him this was the most difficult period of his career. What was this work that he was part of?

Azhagappan was the only person to videograph Operation Bluestar as part of DD crew

26Sometime back Mohanlal had enquired about this person in one of his FB posts. In couple of days someone updated him with this photo and the news that he passed away 2 years back. Why was Lal enquiring about him?

Lal shared screenspace with him in his first shot in Thiranottam. His name is Ajit Rajagopal

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This book appeared in the publicity material of a movie.Which one?

AZED

Id A-H

10 points each for getting B and H correct5 points each for the rest. Bonus 5 for getting all correct

In 1960’s A wrote a drama B . It could not get much booking after initial few shows. By late 60’s Balan K Nair requested A for a drama which he can stage and this story was given. He was concerned about the climax and wanted that to be changed

Recently C mentioned that D suggested a change in climax which was adapted to this drama. Aravindan and Thikkodiyan who knew the change supported it.

But later D used this original climax of B in his later work E .

C’s remark on this was a reply to an article written in Bhashaposhini on D. In this article the author, S Jayachandran Nair had mentioned that inspite of being friends, A wrote the script for Mammootty movie F which had a character having shades of D in a negative touch . F was directed by G

C has worked on a project titled H on the life of G’s wife

.

In 1960’s A (T Damodaran) wrote a drama B (Udanja Vigrahangal). It could not get much booking after initial few shows. By late 60’s Balan K Nair requested A for a drama which he can stage and this story was given. He was concerned about the climax and wanted that to be changed

Recently C(Didi Damodaran) mentioned that D (MT) suggested a change in climax which was adapted to this drama. Aravindan and Thikkodiyan who knew the change supported it.

But later D used this original climax in his later work E(Nirmalyam)

C’s remark on this was a reply to an article written in Bhashaposhini on D. In this article the author, S Jayachandran Nair had mentioned that inspite of being friends, A wrote the script for Mammootty movie F(Vartha) which had a character having shades of D in a negative touch . F was directed by G (IV Sasi)

C has worked on a project titled H(Vishuddha Shanthi) on the life of G’s wife

.

Lionel Charles Robbins was head of department at a prestigious institute in Britain. He participated in the first world war and was wounded and returned home.He resumed his studies at the aforementioned institute, where he studied with Harold Laski, Edwin Cannan and Hugh Dalton. He is most famous for his definition of something. And thats why we have him in our quiz today.This definition has been used by a hero of a movie in an argument with his partner thereby leaving the partner in awe of his knowledge. Looking for any of these - Movie/ Definition/ Dialogue?

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"Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses”

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In one of Mammootty’s all time hits, there is a character X. The person who played X later directed a movie in tamil by the same name X and starred in it which was a prequel to the happenings in the original movie. Name X

Salem Vishnu

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In the movie Kalapani, John Kolvenbach plays the good doctor whose involvement helps the inmates of Cellular Jail.What was the name of character that he played? The name might be of interest to cricket lovers.

Len Hutton

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A famous director based one of his famous characters on this person. (Visual on the next slide)Id the character

G Aravindan based Ramu’s appearance on Artist Sabarinath

32Appachan in his autobiography specifically mentions about 2 of

people who came to him for the role of Jesus in the Bible serial.

One was a porter from Ekm station - Rafeeq, About whom he says he

actually felt Christ was in front of him.

About the other he says - this person came to me with a big album full

of pictures of him as Jesus. He initially didn’t recognize who he was

and after getting introduced Appachan was sceptical because he was

already a big name in his chosen profession and wondered if he

would be able to devote time . But he told Appachan that he will give

more commitment to this role than any other thing including his

current profession. Though this did not materialize, they did work

together later

Kochouspeh Chittilapally - associated with him for Veegaland and Kishkinda

33Once Albhutha Dweep was released, director Vinayan had claimed that an academy award winning director had acquired the rights of this movie and will get the remade in Hollywood. Which director who won the Academy award in the 2000’s for a movie which happened to be in news recently was he referring to?

Ron Howard

‘A Beautiful Mind’ was in news recently when John Nash passed away

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This is a clip from the Kannada movie 1943 - Vani. Connect this to the world of Malayalam cinema

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രുഗസ്വാ�ധാസ്വാഗരുത്ത്�ൽനി�രുടു�........................................

ലെചീമ്പടുതിളത്ത്�ൽശങ്കിരുഭരുണത്ത്�ൽ

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ലെനിയാ�തി യാതിള തിരു,ഗങ്ങള്‍ ഉയാർലെന്നുങ്ങ�, ത്രപിതി�ധാ6നി�ച്ചു� (2)

Movie - NirakudamSung and acted on screen by KJYChembai’s photo makes an appearance in this song

Theme

Non exhaustive

+10 for each correct answer

Answers to each question points to the theme.

Relevant part of the answer will be highlighted

Points for cracking theme:1/2 +60 -103/4 +40 -105/6 +20 -107/8 +10 -10

In Jeevitha Nouka - 4 lines from a poem was used and the poet was paid Rs 100 per line as per agreement. Later they added 4 more lines and send Rs 400 but the poet filed a case demanding Rs 1000 per line. Which poem and poet -

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Vallathol’s Magdalana Mariyam.

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Whose filmography as an actor?

Iniyum marichattilla nammal, Aranjanam, Nokkukuthi

Kadamanitta

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37When the director (X) went to show the script to the cinematographer (Y), he already knew that Y had a completed script on the same story. Y read the script and said that this was much better that his own version and went on to film the project for X. Both X and Y are State and National film award winners. Id the movie/story in question.

Basheer’s Mathilukal

38He was the first king of Somavamsha. According to the Vishnu Purana, his father was Budha, and he was ancestor of the tribe from whom descended the Kauravas and Pandavas.

A movie released within last 5 years had his story as a part of its narrative. Name the 2 characters that the lead actor in this movie portrayed?

The king in question is Pururavas

The movie is Makaramanju

Santhosh Sivan played Raja Ravi Varma and Pururavas

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39The lead actress of this Malayalam movie (poster shown) has co authored a biography of X.

Y played the role of X in a 2010 movie which had a Tamil actor in the lead role.Id X and Y

Babu AntonyAyyankali

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Which movie had this song. Which form of singing is this?

GaurishankaramPulluvan Pattu

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Sreekumaran Thambi wrote and directed Swantham Enna Padam starring Madhu and Srividya in 1980. Some years before that he had directed a movie which had a song Swantham Enna Padam. Which One?

last or 2nd last

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Movies of kalamandalam Gopi

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Year Documentary Director

1978 Vallathol P Bhaskaran

2003 Nishadam (On Kadamanitta) Madhu Eravankara

1987 Basheer The Man M A Rahman

2007 Before the Brush Dropped (On Raja Ravi Varma) Vinod Mankara

1997 Ayyankali R S Madhu

2002 Jeevanakalayude Pulluvageetham (On Pulluvan Pattu) M Venukumar

1990 Mohiniyattam Sivan

1999 Kalamandalam Gopi Adoor Gopalakrishnan

2010 Making of a Maestro - kalamandalam Gopi Meena Das Narayan

Subjects of Kerala state film award for Best Documentary