Quiz on Hindi movies

1. Irani to Hirani
Bollywood Quiz

2. The first talkie of India Alam
Ara in 1931 by Ardeshir Irani
was advertised with the
tagline "All living. Breathing.
100 per cent talking".
There is an incorrect report in
the media about this movie in
the year 2003 which was
denied by the concerned
authorities.
Name it.

3. It was incorrectly reported that the
last known prints of ALAM ARA in
Pune's film archives, were damaged
by a fire in 2003 when in fact no
copy was ever possessed by the film
archive.

4. How do we know
Sampooran Singh Kalra
born in Jhelum District in
British India (now in
Pakistan) in1934?

6. X is an original Marathi word meaning "blossomed“or
fully fertile which during its evolution/progression
started as its application to someone with high youth
elements or budding hormones and subsequent
behaviour of that animal/humans to establish control,
create mischief, attract attention of opposite sex and
other such indulgences.
X is associated with words which were considered "not
decent" to use in regular language and are mostly
used by people who are deemed anti-social .
Name X .

8. Meena Kumari in the Best Actress category at 10th Filmfare
Awards, 1963.
Mohammed Rafi in the Best Male Playback Singer category
at 16th Filmfare Awards, 1969.
Asha Bhosle in the Best Female Playback Singer category at
20th Filmfare Awards, 1973.
Kishore Kumar in the Best Male Playback Singer category at
32nd Filmfare Awards, 1985.
Alka Yagnik in the Best Female Playback Singer category at
39th Filmfare Awards, 1994
CONNECT

9. Artists with all nominations
in a single category

10. The first Indian film to achieve this
was Disco Dancer. The first Indian
film with which this term came into
prominence was Ghajini.
Identify the term widely used now
to indicate the success of a movie.

12. In 1971, Lata
Mangeshkar made this
unusual gesture.
In 1979, Asha Bhosle
emulated her elder
sister and requested the
same to Filmfare
authorities.
What was the request?

13. Not to
consider them
for Filmfare
awards
anymore

14. Hamid Ali Khan better known by
his stage name Ajit, acted in over
two hundred movies over almost
four decades mainly as a villain.
He mainly acted as a smuggler
who deals with gold biscuits.
Name his accomplice who was
immortalised by his famous
dialogue.
A 2017 horror movie has the same
name.

16. Filmfare Award for Best Performance in
a Negative Role was instituted in 1991
and continued till 2007.
Though X did not get a nomination for
his most iconic villain role, he got 7
nominations in this category but never
won.
Identify X.

18. Raakh, is a 1989 crime thriller from Aditya
Bhattacharya .
The film tells the story of a young man avenging the
rape of his ex-girlfriend (played by Supriya Pathak).
Despite a poor reception at the box office, the film
was critically acclaimed.
X who played the hero was awarded a National Film
Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention for his
performance, his only acting award at Nationals so far.
Name X.

20. X was originally nominated as the best
child artist in the movie awards; but x
protested and made himself nominated
in best actor category.
He eventually won critics award for best
actor in Filmfare and Zee cine Awards.
Name X .

22. In 2002, two biopics were made in
Bollywood about X.
One had X’s name in title starring Ajay
devgan and the other had an important
date of X’s life in its title starring Bobby
Deol.
Identify X.

24. Bhagyasree
Patwardhan, the
princess of Sangli never
made it big in
Bollywood despite a
sensational debut.
The reason being her
insistence on
something.
What is it?

25. She wanted her
husband Himalay as
the hero of her
films;
3 flops and it all
ended

26. CONNECT

28. CONNECT THE FOUR MOVIES

29. The theme of reincarnation was popularised
in Western popular culture through
Bollywood films, with Madhumati (1958)
inspiring the Hollywood film The
Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975),which
in turn inspired the Bollywood film Karz
(1980), which in turn influenced another
Hollywood film Chances Are (1989).

30. He wrote a book in 2002 called Soul
Curry for you and me – An Empowering
Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life.
In the early 80s, he authorised the use
of his likeness for the comic book
character Supremo.
Identify him.

32. In a 2011 interview with Mumbai Mirror, Boom
producer Ayesha Shroff said:
"We created an identity for her. She was this
pretty young English girl, we thought we'd give
her some kind of Indian ancestry, to connect with
the audience and we gave her a surname after a
cricketer at that time. “
The actor denied these and called this comments
hurtful.
Name the actor.

34. The movie X had a Hong Kong remake, The Brothers
(1979) which went on to inspire John Woo's
internationally acclaimed breakthrough A Better
Tomorrow (1986)which set the template for the heroic
bloodshed genre in Hong Kong action cinema.
X also inspired Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning
film Slumdog Millionaire .
Identify X which had an iconic dialogue.

36. When Shaan and
Kailash Kher shared the
best playback singer
award for the same
song ,the interesting
part was that kailash
sang just one word only.
What was it?

38. During the film fare award
function of 1978, the
guests watched as a bride
and bridegroom in their
wedding attire rushed to
the function.
Name the bridegroom
who has a record number
of film fare awards to his
credit(19 in 5 languages).

40. Before becoming a star, X used to sing for
movies.
He once made fun of the Urdu pronunciation of
Lata Mangeshkar, a new entrant at that time.
Later, she made her Urdu so perfect that he had
to really struggle to catch up with her when they
recorded together.
Who is X who totally gave up playback singing
and went on to be a superstar ?

42. Roadside Romeo is a 2008 3D
Indian-American computer
animated romantic musical
comedy family film written and
directed by Jugal Hansraj,
produced by Aditya Chopra and
Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films.
Which popular couple gave the
voice for the male and female
protagonists of the movie?

44. The movie X was supposed to be the
Magnum Opus of Subhash Ghai.
X, the warrior poet had two music
directors ;Rahman and Ismail Darbar.
It was a big flop and almost destroyed
the career of Vivek Oberoi as a hero.
Name X.

46. Prabhat Film Company popularly
known as Prabhat Films was an
Indian film production company
and film studios founded in 1929
by the noted film director
V.Shantaram and his friends.
They went on to produce 45 films
which were considered as classics.
What will you see if you visit this
premise now?

48. Baz Luhrmann stated that his musical film X
(2001) was directly inspired by Bollywood
musicals.
The film incorporated an Indian-themed
play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama
Mṛcchakatika and a Bollywood-style dance
sequence with a song from the film China
Gate called Chamma Chamma.

50. On 1 November 2018 , Yash Raj Films
partnered with Google, replacing the
navigation symbol on all Google Maps
services in India with the character from a
movie who occasionally recites dialogue
from the movie.
In spite of this marketing strategy , the
movie did not perform well.
Name the movie.

52. Mumbai’s iconic Maratha Mandir — which
has been running the movie Dilwale
Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) for the past two
decades had another first in 2017.
For the first time in 22 years, the film’s
matinee show was cancelled for the trailer
screening of the movie X .
Manoj Desai, executive director of Maratha
Mandir Cinema, said the makers of the film
thought of launching the trailer there as X
lived in Dongri, which is very close to
Maratha Mandir.
Identify X whose brother is more known to
us.

54. The person shown in this
picture is the music director
Ram Laxman of hit films like
Maine Pyar Kiya (1989),
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
(1994) and Hum Saath Saath
Hain (1999).
What is peculiar about his
name?

55. Raamlaxman(Vijay Pandit) is the
"Laxman" of duo composers "Raam-
Laxman".
In 1976, Raam died and Laxman
continued to retain Raam's name in
Marathi as well as Hindi films.

56. Krsna Solo (born Amitav
Sarkar) is a music
composer, who debuted
with the popular Hindi film
"Tanu Weds Manu" in
2011. One of his
mentionable international
score is for the
documentary called X by
Leslee Udwin.

58. Movie names inspired from song lyrics
is a common thing in Bollywood.
However, a recently released movie
used an iconic movie dialogue as a song
though the lyrics are literally translated
to English.
Identify the dialogue.

60. X’s father asked him to apply to the Film and Television
Institute of India in Pune, but the acting course had
shut down and his chances of admission to the
directorial course looked slim as there were far too
many applicants. So X opted for the editing course,
and earned a scholarship.
X tried his luck as a film editor for many years. Bad
experiences forced him to shift to advertising.
But once he was back to films in 2003, there was no
turning back.
Id X.