This is a quiz I conducted recently as a part of Jaquizzi. This bollywood / movie quiz has 20 questions. The first round has 10 questions (3 clues each) whereas the second round has 10 straight questions.

1. Movie Quiz
Ravi Handa

2. Round 1 – Who am I?
15(-10), 10(-5), 5 and pass for 5

3. Question 1
• Born in Dhaka, I moved to Calcutta in 1935 to
become camera assistant to P C Barua.
• My daughter married Basu Bhattacharya, who
was my assistant on Madhumati and Sujata,
against my wishes. She later divorced him for
domestic abuse.
• Coming from a Zamindar family, I was inspired
to make Do Bigha Zameen after watching
‘Bicycle Thieves’

4. Answer 1
• Bimal Roy

5. Question 2
• Born in Bangalore to a Brahmin family, my
original name was Vasanth Padukone. It was
changed when my family moved to Kolkata to
sound more auspicious and Bengali.
• I started working as a telephone operator at
Lever Brothers before moving to Pune to join
Prabhat Films, where I met Dev Anand. Dev and I
became friends and he starred in my first film
Baazi.
• 3 of my most famous movies were written by
Abrar Alvi and starred Waheeda Rehman & I.

6. Answer 2
• Guru Dutt

7. Question 3
• I started my career as a photographer in Godhara
and later moved on to printing in color, still a new
technology in India. Worked as an assistant to
painter Raja Ravi Verma for some time.
• The 2009 Marathi film, India’s official entry to the
Oscars that year, was based on my struggles of
making my first film
• One of the highest civilian honors in India is
named after me. It was first given to Devika Rani
in 1969

8. Answer 3
• Dada Saheb Phalke

9. Question 4
• My director wanted to make me in 1944 with
Chandramohan and Nargis in the lead roles
but Chandramohan died in 1946.
• Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sang two songs in me –
Prem Jogan Ban Ke & Shubh Din Aayo and
charged 25,000 Rs for it when Lata and Rafi
used to charge 500 Rs. for a song.
• I was the highest grossing film of all time from
1960 to 1975 (Sholay).

10. Answer 4
• Mughal-e-Azam

11. Question 5
• Born as Mahajabeen Bano, I used to write poetry
under the pen-name Naaz.
• There are various parallels between my life and
Monroe’s. Like her, I died young. Like her, I had a
troubled marriage with an author (Kamal Amrohi).
• Such was my dominance that in 1963, I was the only
person nominated in the Filmfare Best Actress category
– Arti
– Main Chup Rahongi
– Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam

12. Answer 5
• Meena Kumari

13. Question 6
• I was written by Zeishan Quadri but he got
more fame as a defining and important
character he played in me.
• I was shot as a single film of 319 minutes but
no Indian theater was willing to screen a 5
hour + film so I was divided in two parts.
• My story is centered around the coal mafia
and I get my name from a locality in Dhanbad.

14. Answer 6
• Gangs of Wasseypur

15. Question 7
• Sadashiv Amarpurkar’s debut. Probably the only
hindi art-house films to have a sequel. The sequel
was called Party
• Often considered to be one of the top cop films
made in India, it gets its name from a poem by
Dilip Chitre which the lead reads in the film.
• The poem
एक पलड़े में नपुंसकता
एक पलड़े में पौरुष
और ठीक तराज़ू क़े कााँट़े पर
____ ______

16. Answer 7
• Ardh-satya

17. Question 8
• Started my career with small roles in movies
like Aradhana (71) and was the lead in
Gumrah (76)
• With the recommendation of his friend
Shatrughan Sinha, I got the opportunity to
direct Kalicharan.
• My last film was released in 2014 – Kaanchi:
The Unbreakable

18. Answer 8
• Subhash Ghai

19. Question 9
• Saeed Jaffery and Sanjeev Kumar played the
title role whereas Amjad Khan played Wajid
Ali Shah in me. Richard Attenborough also
starred in me.
• I was based on a short-story by Munshi
Premchand.
• I was the only Hindi film directed by Satyajit
Ray.

20. Answer 9
• Shatranj Ke Khiladi

21. Question 10
• My great-grandfather helped in designing the
Eiffel Tower. My family owned various art
works of Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh, Monet
which were later donated to Louvre
• I was born in Pondicherry to French parents
and raised in Ooty. This makes me fluent in
Hindi, English, Tamil, and French.
• I made my debut in the 2009 adaptation of
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1917 novel .

22. Answer 10
• Kalki Koechlin

23. Round 2
10(-5) pounce or pass for 10

24. Question 1
• This short film was directed by Anurag
Kashyap. It starred Kay Kay Menon as a doctor
who is on death-row being interviewed by a
journalist Nivedita Bhattacharya (who later
went on to marry Kay Kay in real life). It was
telecast as a part of the televsion series – Star
Bestsellers.
• Name the film

25. Answer 1
• Last Train to Mahakali

26. Question 2
• ‘Interrogation’ is a 2015 Tamil docu-drama
film based on the novel Lock Up by M.
Chandrakumar. It is produced by Dhanush and
won multiple National awards.
• How do we know it better?

27. Answer 2
• Visaranai / India’s official entry to Oscar

28. Question 3
• Aurat, a 1940 film, told the story of an
indomitable woman Radha who toils hard to
pay off the village money lender Sukhi Lala
and raise her sons. The film was a huge hit
• Identify the director of Aurat, who remade the
film under a different name in 1956. The new
film was again a huge hit and got him global
fame.

29. Answer 3
• Mehboob Khan

30. Question 4
• Kundan Shah’s favorite director was
Michelangleo Antonioni of ‘Blow Up’
• How was this referenced / what was inspired
in the 1984 classic ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’?

31. Answer 4
• Blow up the picture for dead-body / Antonioni
Park

32. Question 5
• What were originally named as ‘The Clares’
after Clare Mendonca who used to work at
The Time of india?

33. Answer 5
• The Filmfare Awards

34. Question 6
• Although she made her debut with a small
role in the 2003 film Boom, she first found
commercial success in the Telugu film
Malliswari (2004). She was raised primarily by
my mom, so I grew up with her surname –
Turquotte. It was changed to sound a little
more Indian

35. Answer 6
• Katrina Kaif

36. Question 7
• The ____ Boy
• It has a Jamshedpur
connection
• What has been blanked
out?

37. Answer 7
• Udaan

38. Question 8
• About which film’s remake did Naseeruddin
Shah say the following:
• I think it will be stupid to remake it in today's
world because it is not possible that a child
would not be able to track his father in ten
years with Facebook, Whatsapp, Google and
God knows what.

39. Answer 8
• Masoom

40. Question 9
• Sung by Amar Arshi and composed by Kam
Dhillion, this song was Bhangra pop hit in
early 2000s.
• What happened in 2016 that gave this song a
new lease of life?

41. Answer 9
• Remixed by Badshah and re-released as ‘Kala
Chasma’ for ‘Baar Baar Dekho’

42. Question 10
• A particular person played the same role in all
these movies. Name the person and the role.
• Bhuvan Shome
• Bawarchi
• Tere Mere Sapne
• Lagaan
• Parineeta
• Jodha Akbar
• Ra.One
• Krishh 3

43. Answer 10
• Amitabh Bachchan as narrator

44. Thank You!
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