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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?

Parveen Babi

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Shahrukh Khan

Aamir Khan (Twice)

Priyanka Chopra

What is this a list of ?

(Exhaustive. Be specific.)

Only Bollywood celebrities to appear on TIME

Magazine cover

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

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

ARDESHIR IRANI

First Sound feature filmNoor Jehan – First Indian English feature film

First Indian Color feature film

First Persian talkie

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 ?

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)

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 ?

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 ?

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 ?

“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)

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) ]

(1) - Inspector Vijay Khanna

(2) – Bombay To Goa

While Jayalalitha played the role of Goddess

Shakthi in this movie, she played the role of

Lord Murugan.

Who is this child actress ?

Sridevi

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?

Identify this Nobel laureate from his only appearance

in a film?

(Video on the next slide)

Bertrand Russell

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 ?

Fix The FOX

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 ?

She played the role of Geeta Phogat in Dangal

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 ?

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 and Y.

X: Swades – We The People.

Y: M.K.Gandhi

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 ?

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 ?

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.

As DHEERAJ PANDEY in Murder 2

AUDIENCE QUESTION

Put funda to the Amul Ad.

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 ?

“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 ?

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)

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?

X is M.F.Hussain

The paintings were all by M.F.Hussain.

Connect.

All have portrayed Gandhi in different movies.

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 ?

BOLLYWOOD TREES

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 ?

X – Anupama Chopra

It is produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

husband of Anupama Chopra

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)

Misirlou

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 ?

(Write Y for bonus +10)

Political leader (Y) is

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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 and Y?

Switzerland became the favorite choice after

shooting was withheld in the valley due to

insurgency.

X is Yash Raj Chopra

Y is Switzerland

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 and Y.

X: Helen

Y: Salim Khan

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?

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?

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 ?

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) ]

(1) – Kala Bazar

(2) – Mother India

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.

X – Sonia Gandhi

Y – Rajiv Gandhi

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 !