Celluloid '17 -- CINE Quiz -- Finals

 There are four questions.
 +5 for each correct listing.
 No negative marking for a wrong listing.
 Maximum number of listing is given on each
slide.

List 10 K-soaps by Ekta Kapoor.

List all the hosts of the national and regional
versions of Kaun Banega Crorepati.
*Hint: Hindi,Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Bhojpuri are the languages.

List all the actors who have played the role of
Byomkesh Bakshi on screen.
*A total of 14 actors have played Byomkesh on screen including both films and tv serials

List all the movies in which Uttam Kumar and
Soumitra Chattopadhyay have acted together.
*There are 9 such movies where they have acted together

 Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi BahuThi
 Kutumb
 Kkusum
 Kasautii Zindagii Kay
 Kaahin Kissii Roz
 KahaaniGhar Ghar Kii
 Kabhii Sautan Kabhii Sahelii
 KahiinTo Hoga
 Kitani Mohabbat Hai
 Kasamh Se
 KaisaYeh Pyaar Hai *
 Kum Kum Bhagya
 Kya HuaaTeraVaada
 KaramApnaaApnaa
 Khwaish
 Kya Dil Mein Hai
 Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki
 KahaniTerii Merrii
 KuchToh HaiTere Mere Darmiyaan
 Kartika

 Amitabh Bachchan (Hindi)
 Shah Rukh Khan (Hindi)
 Suriya (Tamil)
 Prakash Raj (Tamil)
 Arvind Swamy (Tamil)
 Nagarjuna (Telegu)
 Suresh Gopi (Malayalam)
 Sourav Ganguly (Bengali)
 Sachin Khedekar (Marathi)
 Swapnil Joshi (Marathi)
 Puneeth Rajkumar (Kannada)
 Shatrughan Sinha (Bhojpuri)

 Uttam Kumar
 Shyamal Ghoshal
 Subhrajit Dutta
 Abir Chatterjee
 Sujoy Ghosh
 Dhritiman Chatterjee
 Sushant Singh Rajput
 Jisshu Sengupta
 Soumitra Chatterjee
 Ajoy Ganguly
 Rajit Kapur
 Sudip Mukherjee
 Saptarshi Roy
 Gaurav Chakraborty

 Jhinder Bandi (1961)
 Aparichito (1969)
 Stree (1972)
 Nakal Sona (1973)
 Jodi Jantem (1974)
 Debdas (1979)
 Pankhiraj (1980)
 Darpachurna (1980)
 Pratisodh (1981)

Trilok Kapoor, Jairaj and Nasir Hussain were
some of the names considered for the role till
X sawY in the 1951 film Hum Log. Identify X
andY.What did they end up making
together?

X: Bimal Roy
Y: Balraj Sahni
Do Bigha Zamin

The Kolkata edition of the International Film Festival
of India was inaugurated by Dr.Harendra Kumar
Mukhopadhyay on 29th February 1952 at the Eden
Gardens. It was the first time the city saw films like
The BicycleThieves. It had a Hollywood director who
has won 3 Oscars saying, “Was deluged with
garlands... Bengali people are quite different from the
rest of India.They are like the Irish, emotional and
sentimental. All riots and revolutions start in Bengal. I
can understand it. It took me an hour to leave the
airport what with the crowds and the photographers.”
Who was the icon?

X had all the makings of a dashing hero – he was
devastatingly handsome, extremely talented,
stinking rich.The story goes that girls would
throw gold bangles at him to draw attention, a
quality which was reflected in several movies of
his. After a successful career in filmmaking,
many do not know that X participated in radio
plays. In 1944, he playedAmit, the hero, in a
radio version of RabindranathTagore’s novel
Shesher Kobita broadcast from the Calcutta
Station of All India Radio. Identify X.

China Town is a 1962 Hindi film directed by
Shakti Samanta, starring Shammi Kapoor in a
double role, as a gangster and his look-alike,
alongside Shakila and Helen. ChinaTown is
believed to be the inspiration for a 1978 Hindi
film which in turned inspired many other
films having a particular similar character.
Identify the 1978 film.

All are based onThe Comedy of Errors

Director X reveals that the characterY took
shape in his head when he saw the rocky
terrains of Ramanagara, a town near
Bangalore.At a time when a lot of dacoit
films were based in the Chambal valley, X
wanted a different setting. “The moment I
reached the place, I knew this would be my
Ramgarh. I could visualise where the house
would be and the rocksY would sit on,” he
said. Identify X andY.

X: Ramesh Sippy
Y: Gabbar Singh

This trend started with Jurassic Park in 1994
andTitanic in 1998.The success of these two
films which contributed 25-40% of their gross
collections due to the trend resulted in other
films following suit.What is the trend which
has now become a ritual almost?

X is a 2010 thriller film which was directed by
Priyadarshan starred by Ajay Devgan, Akshaye
Khanna and Bipasha Basu based on the
Hollywood movie Mississippi Burning about
three friends who go disappearing without any
clue. Another movie having the same name X is a
1998 crime movie starring Sunil Shetty and
Shilpa Shetty. But the most famous movie of the
same name is a 1980 movie which won six
Filmfare Awards and the Golden Peacock at the
IFFI. Identify all the movies having the same
name X.

In his memoir, X revealed that when Richard
Attenborough announced his desire to make a film
about MK Gandhi, he was one of the many young
Indian actors who wanted to play the lead role. He
was convinced that he could pull off the role.
Unfortunately, during his audition in London, X found
out that Ben Kingsley had already been cast as Gandhi
and the whole process of tom-tomming that X
was being tested was only to delude the Indian press
into thinking that an Indian was being cast as Gandhi.
X calls it a "pungent irony" that the one role he
actively chased, eluded him completely. X later
fulfilled his desire with a film in 2000.
Identify X.

As a youngster, he was very fascinated by
typography in both his vernacular language
and English.While working in advertising,
and designing book covers for Signet Press,
he couldn’t find metallic letters to go with the
moods of certain books. So, he brought in
more Indian motifs and calligraphic elements
to advertising which led to the creation of
four Roman fonts all of which are patented
under his name.Who is he?

Before gaining recognition for his talent, X used
to work as a touch-up guy for cars in a garage in
Worli, Mumbai. Finally he got his break in a 1963
movie named Bandini. He made a documentary
in 1990 on the legendary sarod player, Amjad Ali
Khan. During the making of that film, he metY,
with whom he later produced many memorable
songs, one of which came into news last year
and their recent collaboration being as recent as
a movie which was released in February of this
year.

Haseena:The Queen of Mumbai is an
upcoming Hindi movie directed byApoorva
Lakhia starring Shradhha Kapoor and
Sidhhanth Kapoor. Shradhha is portraying
the role of the protagonist Haseena Parker
who happens to be the sister of Dawood
Ibrahim which is being played by Sidhhanth.
As a result, a certain ‘first’ is happening in
Bollywood.What ‘first’ am I talking
about?

Real life siblings play the role of on screen
siblings

Identify the person on whom Google made a Doodle in
honour of her birthday.This person was born as Fatima
Rashid and is known by the name which stuck with her
after her first film.

The first film that was made on a story by X was
Mazdoor in 1945.The second film was Heera
Moti (1959), based on a short story called Do
Bailon ki Kahani starring Balraj Sahni and Nirupa
Roy. Godan which was the last complete novel
by X was made into a film in 1963 directed by
Trilok Jaitley. In 2004, Gulzar made a 26-episode
TV series (one of which was Godan) for
Doordarshan as part of 125th centenary
celebrations.
Who is X?

 There are eight memes.
 Identify the movies from which the memes
have been taken.
 +5 for each correct identification.

It is said that for the role of a famous singer in
Abhimaan, director Hrishikesh Mukherjee had
asked Jaya Bachchan to observe ‘her’ carefully
and incoporate those nuances on screen. In an
interview, the singer reveals, “Jaya came and sat
in front of me while I was recording. I felt
conscious. But when I watched the movie, I saw
Jaya had emulated me perfectly.The way I tend
to pull my saree pallu over my shoulder seemed
so real.”
Who is the singer?

The area highlighted in red is an area in Mumbai which shares
its name with a 2011 film starring Prateik Babbar, Monica
Dogra and Kriti Malhotra. Name it. (bigger pic in next slide).

In May 2016, a statue of X was unveiled in
Interlaken, Switzerland by his wife and
daughter-in-law.The event was organised by
InterlakenTourism and Jungfrau
Railways. Earlier in 2011, X was awarded the
title of “Ambassador of Interlaken” and
Jungfrau Railways named a train after him.
Who is X?

Initially Kareena Kapoor was signed for the lead role
for this movie but was later dropped due to her
tensions with the Bachchan family. Snow was
essential for the story of the movie, so for the first
part of the shoot, the entire unit went to Shimla in
mid-January. It was cold but there was no sign of
snow. Since the unit could not wait around, kilos of
salt bags bought from the local market and snow
making machines from Bombay helped complete that
schedule.The shooting would be done early at 4 am.
And when the locals emerged they'd be amazed to
see so much snow; it looked so authentic that they
would touch it to check whether it was real.
Which movie am I talking about?

The director of Masaan, Neeraj Ghaywan was the
assistant director to X forY. He planned the story of
Masaan in 2012 and wanted X to produce it. But due
to tight schedule, X couldn't but promised Neeraj to
produce the film in future and he kept it. Neeraj
Ghaywan first met actorVicky Kaushal on the sets of
Y, in which Kaushal was also an assistant director.
Masaan's writerVarun Grover was a lyricist on the film
Y. Nitin Baid, the film's editor, was an assistant toY's
editor ShwetaVenkat. "The post production ofY took
a year and a half so we became buddies while working
in the studio," says Ghaywan talking about Baid.
Identify the director X and the filmY.

X: Anurag Kashyap
Y: Gangs ofWasseypur

Though a work of fiction, the script for this movie was
inspired by the 11th July 2006 Mumbai train
bombings. In fact, the incidents that followed the
bombings were used as details in the plot.This movie
happens to be the debut film for a ‘certain director’.
The movie has been remade into aTamil version
starring Kamal Hassan and Mohanlal and aTelugu
version starring Kamal Hassan andVenkatesh. In 2013,
it was remade by Sri Lankan directorChandran
Rutnam into a film ‘A Common Man’ starring Ben
Kingsley and Ben Cross. Identify the film
and the ‘certain director’.

Buniyaad was aTV serial directed by Ramesh
Sippy and Jyoti Sarup which was first aired on
DD National in 1986.The serial was based on
The Partition of India and was reaired on
Doordarshan in the year 2013. X played the role
of Master Haveliram, a freedom fighter and a
patriot in Buniyaad. X had earlier played roles in
films like Gandhi and Saaransh. X has acted in
quite a number of HindiTV serials and became
quite popular in social media sites around late
2013. Who is X?

Shakti Kapoor played the role of Crime Master
Gogo in the cult film Andaz Apna Apna. Crime
Master Gogo is supposed to be the nephew of
another great villain Mogambo played by Amrish
Puri in the film Mr.India. Now Crime Master
Gogo cannot say 'S'. He replaces 'S' with 'T' and
hence instead of saying 'Namaste' his character
says ‘Namate’. As a result, the makers of the film
did something unique in the post credits scene.
What did they do?

Shakti Kapoor’s name was shown as
Thakti Kapoor.

For the film Mughal-E-Azam, director K Asif
was bent on having X to provide the singing
voice ofTansen in the film. X declined and
was asked to name his price by the director.
He asked for Rs 25,000 - a small fortune at the
time - to put K Asif off. Not only did K Asif
agree to the price quoted, he also paid X an
advance fee. In the film, X sings two songs -
Prem Jogan Ban Ke and Shubh Din
Aayo Raj Dulara.Who is X?

“What many people do not know was that around the
same time X approached Dileep, another director in
Kollywood—Kathir—had already signed him on. Kathir
was working on a movie with Illayaraja but the composer
and he had a fight and Kathir ended up storming out on
Illayaraja and straight into Dileep’s studio because he had
heard through his ad agency friends that Dileep was good.
Kathir walked right up to Dileep and handed him Rs 10,000
as an advance and said ‘Work with me’. Dileep was
shocked because he had never done movies and here was
someone putting all his faith and money on him. He
agreed to work on the movie.”
This is an excerpt from Kamini Mathai’s biography of
Dileep. But X’s movie released before Kathir’s
movie and that was fortuitous for Dileep.
Who is X?What was X’s movie?

In 1990, famous Indian director Mrinal Sen was
among a group of 12 international film directors
who created a short film on their own city.These
directors included Eagle Pennell, Krzysztof
Kieslowski among others. In the short film about
Kolkata, Sen compared Kolkata to an ancient
legend which has changed from a man to a city
to an empire over time.There has also been two
expeditions in search of the place.With which
legend was Kolkata compared?

This song was originally sung by Ashok
Kumar for the 1941 film Jhoola. 27 years later,
Kishore Kumar asked the lyricist of the movie
X, Rajinder Krishan to do an extended version
of the same song and sung it himself.Which
song am I talking about and identify the
movie X.

Ek Chatur Naar Kar Kar Singaar
Padosan

"I was so embarrassed while doing these scenes.
As Abhaya I am shown to hold a grudge against
X because he knows that my husband Irfan is
cheating on me, yet he does not alert me.The
first time I meet X is aboard a ship headed for
Burma where I narrate my woes to him. He
blesses me that I may find Irfan. But later in
Burma, he chooses to remain silent about my
husband's infidelity. So I take him to task.'‘
About whom (X) does actress Mrinal Kulkarni
says these words on the lines of the
shooting for theTV series Shrikant?

2.0 is an upcoming Indian science fiction film
starring Rajnikanth and Amy Jackson with
Akshay Kumar making his debut in Kollywood. It
is the successor to the 2010 film Enthiran.The
filming of the movie depicts an encounter at the
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium between two teams,
sparking rumours that the teams are based on X
andY. ActorsAmitabh Bachchan and Abhishek
Bachchan visited the stadium during the filming.
Identify the teams.

Chennaiyin FC and Mumbai City FC

Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written,
produced and directed by OscarAsche, with
music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor
embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the
40Thieves.The piece premièred at His Majesty's
Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for
five years and a total of 2,238 performances.This
comedy is supposed to be the inspiration behind
a popular song from a 1958 movie which was
composed by O.P.Nayyar.Which song?

The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first
published in 1937, which was groundbreaking
with its treatment of the contentious theme of
medical ethics. It was made into an English film
in 1938. In 1971, it was made into a Hindi film
starring Dev Anand and Mumtaz.The following
year it was remade into a Bengali film named
Jiban Saikate and was made into aTelugu film in
1982. Name the
Hindi film.

C Ramachandra, the prolific film music director
was entrusted with the score for the filmAsha in
1956. One of the songs called for a fun and spice
melody designed to tease the senses. Immersed
in creative thought in his music room, he was
distracted by his kids playing outside.The game
which was being played involved a certain
rhyme which turned out to be the inspiration for
the song Eena Meena Deeka which C
Ramachandra came up with.What were the kids
playing?

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