6. 2
The story is that the song was only to be used in the
background during a few scenes. While shooting in Mcleod
Ganj, the song was heard by some locals who approached the
director and asked him to turn it into a live song as it spoke
directly to them regarding their cause, the clues of which
could later be seen in the video song in the form of flags and
banners.
Without any surprise, it ran into problems with the Censor
Board which asked the director to remove the controversial
elements.
Director insisted that the song talked about personal freedom
and has nothing to do with geographical issues but to no avail.
As a result, the blurred flags and slogans can still be seen in
the video of which song?
12. 4
• A lawyer from Delhi heard his four-year-old son singing
this song. He was so furious with it that he moved court
on the grounds that ‘it was polluting the child's mind
and degrading Indian culture.’ As the matter heated up
around 32 national parties along with some women
organizations jumped the bandwagon.
• Surprisingly, Bal Thackeray defended the director by
calling it a "patriotic" film in his paper Saamana and
asserted that there was nothing wrong with this
particulr song.
• However, the controversy it raised cost the director a
National Award where he lost to Yash Chopra’s Darr by
just 1 vote.
Which Song?
15. 5*
It was finally on the table and was decided to be
worked upon but the funding problem was still
facing them. X took the charge and went to ask for
help from a particular section of workers in Gujarat
who dealt with a commodity whose one unit would
cost around 8 Rs. X asked them to charge 6 Rs and
let the remaining 2 Rs go for funding the project. 5
Lakh workers gave up the money as asked.
What was the result?
(Part points for X)
24. 8*
The movie was inspired from a Hollywood film
“Show Boat” and was shot at night due to
unavailability of ‘something’. Upon release it
had a punchline:
“78 murde insaan zinda ho gaye. Unko bolte
dekho.”
Which film?
27. 9
X, desperate for a particular role, dressed up as a
village girl with make up to look scarred and
arrived at Y’s residence. Very impressed by X, Y
signed her on the spot with a gold coin as the
signing amount.
Y was not as much impressed by the talent as he
was by her body on full display and had famously
said “Let people come to see X’s tits, they will go
out remembering the film”
ID X and Y
30. 10
• “TN-07-AL-4777”, also the name of a film, was MGR’s
lucky number and found a way to all the number
plates of the cars that he owned. Also to add to the
interesting angle, Mahadevan Ganesh and
Venkatramani of GV Films, who produced the movie,
also share the same car number plate.
• This Tamil movie is the remake of which Hindi
movie?
36. 12.
“The Adventures of
Amitabh Bachchan”, a
comic book series was
developed by Pammi
Bakshi, editor of Movie
magazine during 1980s.
Who wrote the script?
39. This is one of the super hit movies of
the 1940s. However, it is well known
due to a different reason. What is its
most significant claim to fame?
13*
48. • The song “sange marmar” from the movie was
shot at Mayawati’s Elephant Park. SaPa
thought if the song was played at
congregations like marriage functions etc,
voters might be influenced
67. 22
Ending on a ‘lighter’ note…..
In the movie Shehenshah when Prem Chopra
(Mathur) asks Amrish Puri about his choice of X
on that particular day, the latter says,
"Jis din main koi gori titli dekh leta hun na
Mathur, mere khoon mein saikdon kale kutte
bhaunkne lagte hain, us din main X peeta hoon."
Give X
72. 1
During the release of their long awaited album, one
of the band members of X said, "For the record we
never broke up, we just had a 14 year vacation.” This
inspired dialogue of Aditya (Farhan Akhtar) in Rock
On “Hum ek break par the, now we are back”.
The character of Arjun Rampal was named after the
lead guitarist of the band X.
Farhan Akhtar’s birthday is the same as that of the
lead singer of X.
Which band was the inspiration?
78. 3
Dev D has a number of references
(which it calls “tributes” to earlier
Devdas movies) – e.g. Kalki taking her
name “Chanda” from watching
Madhuri dance in the 2002 version,
Abhay as Dev walking out of a seedy
bar with the poster of the 2002 movie
hung on a wall, a song from the 1955
movie playing in Dev’s village etc. The
name of Dev’s lawyer in the movie
(played by the guy on the left) is a
tribute to older versions too.
What was the name of the lawyer
(played by Naveen Kaushik of “Rocket
Singh” fame)?
80. • His name in the movie was “Bimal Barua”, a
tribute to Bimal Roy and Pramathesh Barua,
who had made earlier versions of the movie
81. 4
The film, made during the Emergency, was produced by a
Janata Party MP and was a spoof on Indira Gandhi and
Sanjay Gandhi (especially his auto manufacturing plans).
Needless to say, the film was banned all over India and all
prints were confiscated. Sanjay Gandhi took those prints,
including the negatives, to Maruti factory in Gurgaon and
burned them. After Janata Party came to power, a case
was filed and the Gandhi scion was sent to Tihar Jail for a
month.
Which film, which had to be remade in 1978, am I talking
about?
84. 5
This film is full of references and tributes to people.
• It was inspired by a Hollywood film Blow-up, so
the name of a park where a crucial event in the
story occurs was named after its director
‘Antonioni’.
• The names of the lead characters ‘Vinod Chopra’
and ‘Sudhir Mishra’ come from the assistant
directors of the film.
• A code word “------ ---- ko gussa kyun aata hai”
refers to the character played by the lead actor in
his previous film.
This film is one of the only three films Vidhu Vinod
Chopra has acted in.
Which film?
88. 6
• Anurag Kashyap says, ‘Yes, Sight and Sound critic
Naman Ramchandran first told me this. So when I
met Quentin Tarantino in Venice I asked him
whether the Manga sequence in Kill Bill was
inspired from an Indian film and he excitedly
remarked, “Yes, I saw this Indian serial-killer film
which showed violence as animated.’’ Kashyap
explains, ‘There is only one Indian serial-killer
film which was made before Kill Bill where
violence was animated’
• Name the Indian movie being referred to
92. 1
• My parents gave me the name Vishwanath
• I am an alumnus of Sir J.J. Institute of Applied
Art, Mumbai.
• I live with my mother in a 1 BHK flat
• I have assisted Mumbai police as a sketch artist.
• I established ‘Naam Foundation’ to help a certain
section of people
Who am I?
98. 3
• I was born in Barabanki, UP
• My father in law ‘Baldev’ used to stitch Rajesh
Khanna's clothes.
• I believe that Amitabh Bachchan hasn’t done any
great film
• According to me Rajesh Khanna was a ‘limited,
poor actor’.
• And I don’t enjoy watching hindi films
• Who am I?
101. 4
• I was born in present-day Pakistan and did my BA in
English Literature from Lahore
• I launched a political party “National Party of India” in
response to the Emergency by INC.
• Dada Muni was my inspiration to take up acting and he
was the one who gave me my break in Bollywood.
• I depicted Cindy Crawford as my mother in one of my
films (Only I had the balls to throw the age difference
in the bin :p)
• I died in just one of my films because it was based on a
novel and the story demanded it.
Who Am I?
(5 Bonus points for stating the film in last point)
104. 5
• I am an Electrical Engineer by education
• I chose music as career during the 90s and
became famous through my unique style.
• I faded from the music scene soon enough and
was forgotten
• Recently I (unintentionally) used Twitter as my
tool for resurrection.
• In an interview I said, “One day, I was watching an
IPL match, and Gayle was batting. I think I
must’ve tweeted something like ‘Gayle is a whale
and nobody can fail’, and I got 150 retweets.”
Who the fuck am I?
107. 6
Kishore Da won continuously 4
filmfare awards for best singer from
1982-1985. He also won the award in
1980 and would have completed his
double hat-trick if he wouldn’t have
lost to me in 1981.
Who Am I?
137. 3
There have been many copies / inspired movies of The
Godfather in India – Sarkar, Aatank Hi Aatank, Gangs of
Wasseypur etc. Name the person who plays Vito
Corleone in the movie where the man in the picture
below plays Michael
151. Rules
• First three questions will individually carry 10
points each
• The last two have only 5 points each
• The points to find the connect will start with
(+100/-50) and decrease subsequently
152. 1 (+100/-50)
• Vijay Pal was branded a coward and discharged from his
duty after he abandoned his ship full of 300 passengers.
• He started working as a coal miner and finds a friend in
Ravi, an engineer and an enemy in Mangal, an escaped
convict.
• Vijay overcomes his cowardice by raising voice against
Mangal who was causing trouble for fellow coal miners.
• They become friends and save lives of over 400 workers
when mine gets flooded with water. Vijay overcomes his
fear.
• The end.
Which film?
154. 3 (+60/-30)
She comes to Mumbai in search for her father but
gets sucked into the complexities of the city which
had nothing to offer to her except more pain and
melancholy
Roger Ebert : “The film's value is in its portrait of
Ruth, and her independence as a solo outsider in a
vast, uncaring city.”
Huffington Post: “an unnervingly realistic portrait of
unimaginable pain – is one with an ending you'll
wish you could forget“
Which film?
155. 4 (+30/-10)
• The film draws inspiration from the
life and struggles of Hellen Keller
• Time Magazine selected the film as
one of the 10 Best Movies of the
year from around the globe.
Which film?
156. 5 (+10/0)
• The film was was initially rumored to be titled
Eve
• The shooting of the film began in New Delhi
on International Women's Day, 2016.
• The film was specially screened for
the Rajasthan Police so as to train them to be
sensitive and sensible about women's rights
and dignity.
Which film?
158. 1
• Vijay Pal was branded a coward and discharged from his
duty after he abandoned his ship full of 300 passengers.
• He started working as a coal miner and finds a friend in
Ravi, an engineer and an enemy in Mangal, an escaped
convict.
• Vijay overcomes his cowardice by raising voice against
Mangal who was causing trouble for fellow coal miners.
• They become friends and save lives of over 400 workers
when mine gets flooded with water. Vijay overcomes his
fear.
• The end.
Which film?
162. 3
She comes to Mumbai in search for her father but
gets sucked into the complexities of the city which
had nothing to offer to her except more pain and
melancholy
Roger Ebert : “The film's value is in its portrait of
Ruth, and her independence as a solo outsider in a
vast, uncaring city.”
Huffington Post: “an unnervingly realistic portrait of
unimaginable pain – is one with an ending you'll
wish you could forget“
Which film?
163.
164. 4
• The film draws inspiration from the
life and struggles of Hellen Keller
• Time Magazine selected the film as
one of the 10 Best Movies of the
year from around the globe.
Which film?
165.
166. 5
• The film was was initially rumored to be titled
Eve
• The shooting of the film began in New Delhi
on International Women's Day, 2016.
• The film was specially screened for
the Rajasthan Police so as to train them to be
sensitive and sensible about women's rights
and dignity.
Which film?
