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4. AUDIENCE QUESTION
In all movies starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, the name
of Big B has always come before Rishi’s in the cast. However there is
one exception to this.
What movie am I talking about?

5. Parveen Babi
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Shahrukh Khan
Aamir Khan (Twice)
Priyanka Chopra
What is this a list of ?
(Exhaustive. Be specific.)

6. Only Bollywood celebrities to appear on TIME
Magazine cover

7. After the launch of her debut bestseller, this is her
second book, a collection of four stories with her
funny and witty comments.
Who is the author ?
She also started White Window Interior
Designing services

9. With respect to Indian Cinema, whose “first” are these ?
First Sound feature filmNoor Jehan – First Indian English feature film
First Indian Color feature film
First Persian talkie

10. ARDESHIR IRANI
First Sound feature filmNoor Jehan – First Indian English feature film
First Indian Color feature film
First Persian talkie

11. The audio cassettes for this movie was released
with the name Mr. Aashiq, which in-fact was the
name first thought for the movie. As the
production and release date got delayed, the
movie was released with the title taken from a
song in a 1956 movie.
How do we popularly know Mr. Aashiq ?

13. This musical film by Buz Luhrmann’s paid tribute to
the music produced in Bollywood by sampling out
an entire song, Hindi Sad Diamonds, from this
piece composed by Anu Malik and featuring in a
movie claimed to be made as “a tribute to Akira
Kurosawa .”
What (item) number was this ?
(+10 Bonus for the name of the movie)

15. Penned By Gulzar, the comic was titled as Supremo
based on the titular title given to this superstar by
Randhir Kapoor. It was before the days of
Shaktimaan that this superhero fought with the evil
forces in the comic world for a stint of two years.
Who is this superstar ?

17. Mangama Sambadam was the Tamil remake of
this Bollywood movie, starring Kamal Hassan.The
remake and the original movie are exact similar in
story line with the song “Oththikko Raasa Raasa”
in the remake having the tone of Jackson’s Billie
Jean and video as modelled on Jackson’s
Thriller, as was seen in the original movie too.
Which movie is Mangama Sambadam
a remake of, allegedly the title track
being played in GoW ?

19. Born as Priyakansha Sharma, he was rebellious from a young age which reflects in a poem, called Zinda ho haan tum koi
shak nahin, he wrote in class 8th. He changed to his present name, of his choice, by filling an affidavit in the district court
while in class 10th. He shifted to Delhi just to get out of Gwalior and away from his authoritative family, it was destiny that
he became famous via theatre.
His acting breakthrough was in the form of title role in Hamlet directed by a German director. He was casted in a TV
show Rajdhani(1989) by Tigmanshu Dhulia, with whom he shared the screen in a power-pack performance in 2012.
Who is this famous actor, especially amongst the youth ?

21. “Necessity knows no law.”
“Science mai full stop hota he nahi !”
These quotes are from two great scientists in a movie that portrayed a 'metaphorical death' of progress.
The movie is loosely based on Subhash Mukhopadhyay, who performed a ground breaking medical
technique for the first time in the world in 1967, but the claim was lost to a pair of scientists working in
England, due to harassment by his colleagues and negligence and excessive bureaucracy from GoI.
The English scientist was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010.
Which film are these movie quotes from?
(Hint for movie: Leprosy)

23. Amitabh Bachchan was the fifth choice for the role of ____(1)____ in his breakthrough movie Y.The
relatively unknown actor was not even on director Prakash Mehra's radar who wanted to cast Raj
Kumar.
Raj Kumar declined because he disliked the smell of Mr. Mehra's preferred brand of hair oil.
Dharmendra was then offered the role but had no dates to give.
Dev Anand was approached but dropped because he wanted sing his own songs.
Rajesh Khanna was asked but didn't want to play against his romantic hero type.
Prakash Mehra was in despair when Pran suggested he watch the just-released ___(2)___ and check out
a new actor called Amitabh Bachchan.The rest, as they say, is history.
FITB (1) ?
[ +5 Bonus for FITB (2) ]

24. (1) - InspectorVijay Khanna
(2) – Bombay To Goa

25. While Jayalalitha played the role of Goddess
Shakthi in this movie, she played the role of
Lord Murugan.
Who is this child actress ?

26. Sridevi

28. AUDIENCE QUESTION
Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ was so long (4 hours 15 min) that it
became the first Bollywood movie to have a very special feature?
What was the special feature?

29. Identify this Nobel laureate from his only appearance
in a film?
(Video on the next slide)

31. Bertrand Russell

32. Cuba Gooding plays the role of a criminal defense lawyer
who gets disbarred for committing a mistrial. He retires for a
break and decides to write a book but gets stuck in between
due to a writer’s block. He befriends an old man who asks
Gooding to read his manuscript.The old man dies soon after
and Gooding publishes the manuscript as a novel under his
name, but gets arrested for real murders of five people as
described exactly in the book.
In it’s Indian remake with Arjun Rampal as the lawyer, Vincent
McMara gives him his manuscript which he publishes and
gets the same fate. The title of McMara’s manuscript was “Fix
the X”, X being the title of this Hindi remake.
What is X ?

33. Fix The FOX

34. A clip from the movie Chachi 420 on the next slide features a little girl.
This little girl in the clip again appeared on the big screen for a
pretty long time now.
Where have you seen her recently ?

36. She played the role of Geeta Phogat in Dangal

37. About this adaptation of a Bollywood classic for
stage by the Tamasha Theatre Company, The
Guardian wrote,“Puts most London musicals in
the shade.”
Which Bollywood Classic is this ?

39. The title of the movie X is inspired from the Preamble to our Constitution.
X could also be called an interpretation of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
The name of the main character is the same as the birth name of a world leader Y and it can
be said that the movie is sort of inspired by Y life where Y is leading a successful life abroad
but chooses to work for his motherland.
X opens with the following quotation from Y:
“Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved,or because others do not yet
share it,is an attitude that only hinders progress.”
Give me X andY.

40. X: Swades –We The People.
Y: M.K.Gandhi

41. The Hindi version of this movie was postponed due to differences between the English
version and Hindi version production teams, freeing producer Chetan Anand to direct
Haqeeqat which became a hit too.
The English edition of this movie was directed by Tad Danielewiski and written by Pearl S.
Buck, a Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer prize winner.The protagonist gets into his god like
character given to him by the villagers and sits for a fast, only to die in the end.The
climax was shot in Limdi town in Ahemdabad as the river Bhugaro in the town flows only
in Monsoon.
Which movie is this ?

43. Salman ______ is a psychoanalyst in U.S, born to Jan
Nisar ______ in a Muslim family in Khairabad, Uttar
Pradesh.
Jan Nisar was a famous Urdu ghazal writer as well as
gave immortal Aankhon hi aankhon mai from C.I.D. He
won a Sahitya Akademi award in 1976.
His elder son, who was named jadoo,taken from a line
from one of his poems “lamha, lamha kisi jadoo ka
fasana hoga” and later changed to X, carried his legacy
forward and won a Sahitya Akademi Award for himself
in 2013.
Who is this more famous elder
brother of Salman ?

45. Prashant Narayanan played critically acclaimed roles in all these (and some other)
movies, though his most famous break came through a movie (released in 2011) not
listed here where he shares not much screen time but the plans made by the character he
plays enthralls the plot (and the lusty ex-cop) to the end.
Which is his most famous screen role, inspiring a few thievery incidents in
Patna after the movie was released ?
The Shadow of Time – made by a
German director in Bengali
language.

46. As DHEERAJ PANDEY in Murder 2

48. AUDIENCE QUESTION
Put funda to the Amul Ad.

49. It was the story written by the to-be-protagonist of the movie on his experiences,
while his engineering college days in Bangalore, on campus-ragging that later took
shape of this cult-classic.When the director saw the story, he knew that the story
needed a milieu. He went to Jaipur, partly to get out of the existing crisis in his life, and
talked to ex-royals and common people there.This is how the movie got it’s famous
metaphor around which the story revolves, a metaphor for the unravelling of India
and what they all see in common.
Which movie is this ?

51. “The violence was more psychological than actual physical violence, it played more
with your mind than the violence in front of your eyes.”
Such was their belief when Salim-Javed were asked about the most violent scene
they have written.They mentioned this hugely famous dialogues instead of other
fighting scenes that they have written in movies like Don, Zanjeer, Sholay to name a
few.
What iconic lines are these which were more of a psychological
trauma to the character in the movie then physical trauma ?

53. The video clip on the next slide is “The Date” commercial by Heineken, featuring a
famous Mohammad Rafi composition from Gumnam. It also forms the opening
sequence of the movie GhostWorld.
Which famous piece of music is this ?
(The Indian movie was inspired from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None)

57. Writer-director Reema Rakesh Nath is perhaps the only one to have directed X in a film.
The film was Mohabbat(1997) and it featured Akshay Khanna, Sanjay Kapoor and Madhuri
Dixit.
“It was a scene where Madhuri was to hold an exhibition of her paintings.I asked him to appear
as X in the scene.Perhaps it was because Madhuri was involved X readily agreed," Nath
said. “He not only made an appearance in the film, he also arranged for the gallery. It was
great fun directing him. He was full of vivacious suggestions.”
Who is X and what was special about the paintings?

58. X is M.F.Hussain
The paintings were all by M.F.Hussain.

59. Connect.

60. All have portrayed Gandhi in different movies.

61. Cinnamomum baileyanum
Lindera queenslandica
Litsea bindoniana
Litsea breviumbellata
Litsea connorsii
Litsea fawcettiana
Litsea glutinosa
Litsea granitica
Litsea leefeana
Litsea reticulata
What is this a list of ?

62. BOLLYWOOD TREES

63. If you remember the scene where Circuit tells Munna to visit library and read about
Gandhiji,
Munna says:“Koi aur tarika nahi he kya?”
Circuit: Bhai,ek kaam karo tum dusre radio station pe try karo.Udhar ek item hai, X. Din
Bhar wo Shahrukh khan ki bat karti rehti hai. Uske Buddhe log Dilip Kumar ke fan
hoenge. Unko apun sambhal lenge.
Who is X? And how is X’s husband related to the movie ?

64. X – Anupama Chopra
It is produced byVidhuVinod Chopra,
husband of Anupama Chopra

65. X is a traditional song from the Eastern Mediterranean region.The earliest
recordings of the song are a 1919 Egyptian composition called Bint Misr and a 1927
Greek rebetiko composition influenced by Middle-Eastern music.
The following song is heavily influenced by X.
You might also have heard X in cult classic from Hollywood.
What song is X ?
(Video on next slide)

67. Misirlou

68. Manoj Kumar's landmark movie X was one of the
biggest hits of the 70's set against the turbulent
times of that decade.The title of this movie would
be the slogan of a famous political leader Y, from
Asia of that time.
Give me X ?
(WriteY for bonus +10)

69. Political leader (Y) is
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

70. There was a rise in insurgency in J&K in the late 80s.This affected life in the state
as there were interruptions because of security threats and getting permission for
various activities got difficult.This is turn affected Bollywood in a particular way
and led to the popularization of a different “costly” practice.
In the same respect a late Bollywood personality X was recognized and honored
by the government of Y?
What practice are we talking about and also give me X andY?

71. Switzerland became the favorite choice after
shooting was withheld in the valley due to
insurgency.
X isYash Raj Chopra
Y is Switzerland

72. Excerpt from India Today’s review of the book by Jerry Pinto:
“In the course of “X:The Life and Times of an H-Bomb”, we find out almost as much about
the Franco-Burmese actor/dancer as we do about Pinto,who grew up watching and loving Hindi
movies in the seventies,even as the rest of the middle-class was scoffing at its kitschy ways.”
Despite Bollywood's venerable tradition of scandal-sheets, not much is known of X's personal
life-colorful though it appears to have been, with a long, exploitative relationship with B-
movie czar P.N. Arora followed by another, more respectable, but equally controversial
marriage to Y who was already married.
Give me X andY.

73. X: Helen
Y: Salim Khan

74. AUDIENCE QUESTION
Christopher Francis Patten is
a Crossbench member of the British House of
Lords and a former
British Conservative politician until 2011, as Member
of the British Parliament for Bath from 1979 to 1992.
Currently, he is also the Chancellor of the University of
Oxford since 2003. His daughter, Alice Patten, is an
English actress who appeared in a hugely famous
Bollywood movie
What movie am I talking about?

76. In an interview when he was asked what his idea of fun was, X promptly replied,
“I’m a chilled out dude.When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the
limited options I had.I had some crazy friends, girlfriends too.We had our share of
parties and drunken escapades as well. Once when in college,I ran out of money and
had to sleep at a bus stop. It was fun as all of us, on Delhi’s Hindu College campus, were
happy children of the Beatles’ generation. Now,I spend my evenings with the children,
watch movies,go for holidays and have a few drinks on the side.”
Who is X, whose lifestyle is way different from his image?

78. Love Letters by A. R. Gurney revolves around two characters sitting and conversing
through letters, notes and cards in which they tell their life story in nearly over 50
years.
Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and created in 1992 by playwright Javed Siddiqui, X
was inspired by Love Letters and involved the story developed with the help of two
characters played by Shabana Azmi and Farooque Shaikh.The play followed with a
sequel with the main characters played by Sonali Bendre and Farroque Shaikh.
The direction of what (X) did Love Letters thus inspired ?

80. Director Vijay Anand often used to caught hold of the live action of black-marketing
techniques of the ticket sellers outside theatres while travelling for college in
Bombay.The phrase “Dedh Ka Do…” got stuck in his mind, later inspiring ____(1)____
starring his brother Dev Anand in the same role and the only film to bring Vijay,
Chetan and Dev Anand together on the screen.The movie saw real time clips of
____(2)____ premiere being used in between.The character played by Dev Anand is
also seen selling tickets for the shows of Mughal-e-Azam.
FITB (1) with a movie name ?
[ +5 Bonus for naming the movie (2) ]

81. (1) – Kala Bazar
(2) – Mother India

82. When X came to India in 1968 as Y’s fiancée, she was put up at Bachchan’s residence
and Teji acted as X’s god mother and made her accustomed to Indian culture. Also
during marriage of X and Y, as the bride is not supposed to live with the in laws
before marriage, X used to live at Bachchan residence in New Delhi.Teji was like
mother to X, and did “Kanya Dan” of X in her marriage with Y.
Give me X and Y, a power couple in their years.

83. X – Sonia Gandhi
Y – Rajiv Gandhi

84. AUDIENCE QUESTION
X initially used to be an RJ for Radio Ceylon and wanted to interview
his favorite actress Y, but it had to be cancelled when he could not
say a single word to her. Later, when he worked with her in Z (1957),
they fell in love and got married.
Give me X,Y and Z – one at a time !