Indian MMT Quiz (Movies Music TV ) Final - By Partha Sarathi Ghatak (Partha AbarKI)

Researched and Conducted by
Partha Abarki

Rules
• 8 team final
• In case of a tie, the team which has scored
more points in the Final will win.

Round 1 -Written
• Infographics
• Songs will be represented by Visual clues,
Audio clues etc.
• Keywords will be represented –you have to
identify the song from that
• Differential marking

Differential marking
• 1-3 teams get it right -10 points
• 4-5 teams get it right – 7 points
• 6-8 teams get it right – 5 points

Question 2
Still Didn’t Find

Answer 1
• Hawa hawaii
Awi wiwi wiwi wi
Chee ho ho honolulu lu lu lu lu, honolulu
Hing bekei Hong Kong, King Kong
I seenoosi, yusiloosi, hassi tosi, lassi pissi
Mombaasa, ping pong
Oye oye oye oye oye oye
(Aka chiki laaki chiki chiki laaki chu
Raapa chiki laaki chiki chiki laaki chiki chu) - 2

Answer 2
• Bombay Se Gayee Poona
• Pune Se Gayee delhi
• Delhi Se Gayee Patna
• Phir Bhee Na Mila Sajna

Answer 3
• Jaadu Teri nazaar
• Khusboo Tera Badan
• Tu Haan kaar Yaa Naa kaar
• Tu hain Meri Kiran

Answer 4
• Anjan Dutta’s Mala
Tomar kotha bola jeno Modhu Bala
Tomar hata chola Sophia Loren
Tomar gondho foraashi anaye anaye
Obhiman Aparna Sen

Infinite Bounce 1
• Rolling Infinite Bounce with 3 Strike Pounce
• No Part Pouncing
• Once you pounce –you cannot then withdraw it.
• Throughout the final – composer will be used
(without the plural form ) whether he works
singly or as a pair.

Question 1
• Identify the TV series and the composer.

Answer 1
• KaramChand
• Anand Milind

Question 2
• Salim Javed have written a lot of action movies and violent
scenes – but when asked about the most violent sequence
that they have written – they surprisingly mentioned this
scene which had not a huge degree of physical violence
,beating up and hitting etc. Their explanation was that the
psychological violence seen in this scene, and the mental
trauma that it caused to the victim was far more violent
than anything else they ever wrote. And it directed the like
of the victim and the movie ever after. Which iconic scene
are we talking about?

Question 3
• What is the most lasting legacy of the
Character played by Dilip Kumar in this 1949
movie?

Answer 3
• Manoj Kumar took his
name from Dileep
Kumar’s character in
this movie

Question 4
• Kali Katha is a short film released on youtube as a
prologue/publicity to the film X. It shows a violent
and abusive husband beating up and forcing his wife
to bear a child against her wishes. It provides for the
background for the divorce between the couple seen
from the the beginning of the film X and tells us how
Kali – the central point of the movie X was conceived.
• Identify the movie X

Question 5
• This song is from the 1989 HMV album Get Organized.
The singer composer is X who was one of the early
rock musicians of India performing with groups like
Velvette Fogg, Brief Encounter and then Savage
Encounter since the 1970s. He was also a very
successful actor in English and Marathi theatre and
theatre composer. However –perhaps his name is
most well known to us as a playback singer in one of
the biggest musical hits of the 1980s. The lyricist in
this album is the famous poet Nissim Ezekiel, also X’s
maternal uncle.

Question 6
• The National Film Award for Best Film Based On
High Literary Work was one of the National Film
Awards was instituted in 1966 and awarded only
at 14th National Film Awards. The only winner in
this category was the Bengali film Chhuti, based
on Bimal Kar’s novel Kharkuto.
• Who was the director?

Question 7
• A rat living in a granary does not have to worry
about the outer world that produces the grains that
fills up the granary. But when the granary is empty,
it turns out to be a rat trap. This is the metaphor
used innovatively by the director in this acclaimed
film on the decay of the feudal system. The BFI
called it “the most original and imaginative film of
1982.” Generally considered to be the most
accomplished work of its director – just give me the
movie.

Question 8
• When Nehru led India into the nonaligned
movement (NAM) in 1961 – Shailendra
supposedly told Radhu Karmakar that – my
song must have inspired him. For I have
described the exact same principles in my
lyrics. Which song was he talking about?

Answer 8
• Mera Joota Hain Japani.

Question 9
• Identify the singers. Also identify the poet .
Mirza Ghalib was such a fan of his poetry that
he had said in exchange of a couplet of his
shayri – Ghalib would give away all his life’s
poetry.(5 plus 5)

Answer 9
• Ahmed Hussein and Mohammad Hussein
• Momin

Question 10
• X was roped in to play the role of the lover of Sri
Devi’s daughter(also played by Sri Devi) in Khuda
Gawah and several scenes were shot with him
including a couple of expensive high octane action
sequences. But then both AB and X had a movie
released during the making of the film, which had
very similar songs. It was not quite clear who
copied whom –but the clash of songs became the
clash of egos and X left the film.Nagarjun stepped
in. X and the songs please (5 plus 5)

Answer 10
• Sanjay Dutt
• Jumma Chumma De de and Tamma Tamma
Loge.

Question 11
• .Identify X- the costume designer of this
movie.X does the costume designing for all of
this director’s movies in recent times and in
that capacity has been nominated for quite a
few awards.(video next slide)

Answer 11
• Bindya Goswami (wife
of director J.P Dutta)

Question 12
• This is a list of acting credits from the IMDB
profile of Y. Just give me the movie X (a 2013
film).
• Pics next slide

Question 13
• The first song is composed by X for a 2001
film, for which X won a Filmfare Award. The
second song is composed by Y for a critically
acclaimed 2004 film. X and Y are siblings.
Identify X ,Y and their illustrious father Z ( 3 +
4 + 3).

Answer 13
• X – Karthik Raja (movie –Grahaan)
• Y – Bhabatarini Illayraja(movie – Phir Milenge)
• Z – Illayraja.

Question 14
• X was in a meeting with Jhammu Sugandh when Jhammu got a
call informing him that Gulshan Kumar has been shot dead. A
shocked Jhammu told X that Kumar had called him an hour back
and said he had just woken up and will now go to a temple, meet
some singers and then come to meet Jhammu. This got X thinking
that when someone dies- we all recount what they had been
doing or were going to do. But what about the killer? What was
his routine? Did he set an alarm to wake up in time for the murder
or did he ask his mother to wake him up? Did he have breakfast or
was he too nervous to eat? Basically X thought we never show
what the killer or criminals in general do between when they
commit their crimes and when they are caught or killed . This was
the genesis of the idea of the film Y .Give me X and Y.

Question 16
• According to K.A Abbas –She was a daredevil in an era when this
was such a rarity among actresses. She symbolized woman power
both on and off the screen; she was the only actor who dared to
take on Baburao Patil of FilmIndia whose vitriolic writing the
entire industry was afraid of –she entered his office and hit him
with a cane –an incident which seemed to have mellowed Patil
down. She also tamed the bosses at Prabhat studio when they
were not allowing her to work outside the studio.She staged a
hunger strike in 1939 at the Prabhat Studios gate until they were
forced to relax the clauses of her contract.
• Considered by most in her industry to be the one of the most
impactful woman in the history of their industry, identify this
famous star – who died in 1964 at the age of 47.

Question 17
• According to rediff.com box office records, this film was
released simultaneously with Yash Chopra’s Veer Zaara,
Abbas Mastan’s Aitraaz and RGV’s Naach and still held
its own in the box office. In fact , in many regions it
beat all the three films to become the top grosser.
• Which film am I talking about ? Only a very specific
answer will get you the points (if that is a clue –use it)

Answer 17
• Colourized version of Mughal e Azam

Question 18
• Identify the composer. The lyrics are an
adaptation by Varun Grover of a poem by X. X
is known as first Hindi Ghazal writer of India
and one of the foremost Hindi poets of the
20th century.Identify X.

Answer 18
• Answer – Indian Ocean
• Dushyant Kumar(sung by Swanand Kirkire)

Question 19
• Danny Dengzongpa was studying at FTII when the Indo
China war broke out. Whenever he stepped out of the
institute –people hurled abuses at him due to his
appearance and ethnicity. He remembered one
particular racial slur and asked it to be incorporated
into the name of his character in one of the more
famous roles that he essayed much later.
• Which film and what character?

Answer 19
• Agneepath
• Kancha Cheena

Question 20
• X (1967) was the first musical collaboration between Y and
Z,both aged 30 at that point. The album follows a day in the life
of an Indian shepherd from Kashmir. It became an
overwhelmingly successful album internationally –and probably
is the highest selling Indian album worldwide .
• Apart from Y and Z , the guitarist Briz Bhushan Khabra was part
of the album.
• It is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You
Die by Robert Dimery and Michael Lydon.
• Y and Z later came together for many different types of musical
collaborations –again hugely successful.
• Identify X (5 points), Y and Z (5 points)

Question 21
X(2012)
2013
2014
2014

Question 22
• The lead actress asks for some money for her
forthcoming tour –but her boss deflects her. She
then complains that he is engaging in X , a
Punjabi expression which means “tal Matol” or
trying to avoid or put something off. And then
she expresses the same sentiments in a song
called X. Give me X, which has since become
almost a generic expression.

Answer 22
• Lare Lappa Lare lappa
(from Ek thi Ladki)

Question 23
• Fill in the blanks (6 words)

Answer 24
• The Greatest Story Ever Told

Question 25
• This clip from the comedy series AIB on Air.
• Who is the song about?
• Why are they so angry on the peacocks?(5 plus 5)

Answer 25
• Great Indian Bustard
• They were the other candidate who the
peacock beat to become the national bird.

Question 26
• The films depicts a tribal community living on
the border with China; the song "Mera pass
Aao" was considered particularly offensive to
the Ao Naga community in Nagaland.however
–who did the male playback?

Answer 26
• Danny Dengjongpa.

Question 27
• Director X and actor Y had developed a strong
friendship . And X cast Y in all of his movies during
this period and had even made a promise to cast Y
in all movies directed by him. However, in 1935, X
cast Pahari Sanyal in the lead role of both versions
of his bilingual film and Y was very hurt by what he
took to be rejection .Acording to X, what did it start
on the part of Y? Also Identify Y.

Answer 27
• K L Saigal Started drinking.

Question 28
• Vishwanath Nayak was the chartered accountant for
Arun Nalawade, a stage actor. Nayak came across a
story by writer Madhavi Gharpure, about how a
young boy with retinal cancer ran away from the
hospital a day before an operation which might cure
him but will also turn him blind. On his suggestion
Nalawade produced and starred in the film based on
this story–which went on to become the first film in
its language to win the Golden Lotus for Best Film at
the National Awards in nearly 50 years. Identify the
movie.

Question 29
• Identify the movie
• According to an interview given by the director –
which doomed love affair is this movie based
upon?
• The opening bars of this song Shairana si hain
was also used as the opening bar of which other
composition by the same music director- a
bigger hit. (3 plus 3 plus 4)

Answer 29
• Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Ayee
• Mahesh Bhatt And Parveen Babi
• Tumsa koi pyara koi masoom (Khuddar)

Question 30
• X is a medical doctor and a PG n Psychiatry. While pursuing
his studies, he fell in love with theatre by Utpal Dutt and
has since carved out an illustrious career for himself on
stage and in films. Along side that –he is the founding
Director of Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health. He is
currently the Principal Investigator for an Indo-US joint
project on Cultural Disorders of Fatigue and Weaknesses
and he is an internationally reknowned expert on the effect
on mental health of natural disasters.
• Amidst all this –he has also served a director of FTII.
• Identify this multifaceted individual.

Question 31
• Identify the movie

Answer 31
• The Evil within (Starring Dev Anand)

Question 32
• In one of X’s more well appreciated roles ,playing a thief
with a heart of gold in the film Y, X had a particular way of
looking closely at people and things . According to X, he
picked up this particular mannerism from the director((Ravi
Tandon ) of the movie Y, who always used this gesture while
framing or analysing his shots. When the film released in
the 1970s, it is reported that people used to copy this
gesture when trying to closely at things.
• Give me X ,what did he do and Y (3 plus 4 plus 3)

Question 33
• _____ _____ _____( English: Mom, I want it) is a song
composed by Vicente Paiva and Jararaca in 1937. The
original recording was made by the Jararaca in 1937and is
today one of the most famous Brazilian songs of all time.
• The song, however, won international level visibility, under
the title "I Want My Mama" by Carmen Miranda. The
"carnival march" was included in her debut on Broadway
and then in the film "Down Argentine Way"
• The original portugese title of the song was used as the
opening line of a RD Burman hit – which was remixed by
Meet Brothers Anjaan in a biopic a few years ago.
• Identify the song and the original movie.

Answer 33
• Mama yo quiero( quiero quiero mama) –
became Mamaiya Kero Kero Kero Mama –
Arjun.

Question 34
• Identify this 1943 movie and the unique
distinction it holds.

Answer 34
• Ram Rajya
• The only movie Gandhiji ever watched.

Question 35 –Connect.
Chaap tilak Saab Chini –
Main Tulsi Tere Angaan Ki
Zihale Miskin MuKun .
Movie - Ghulaami
Kaahen Ko Byaahen Bidesh –
Umrao Jaan

Answer 35
• Amir Khusrav (Songs based on or using lines
written by him)

Question 36
• Which musical collaboration/partnership was
seen for the first time in this title song of the
DD series Daane Anaar Ke ?

Question 37
• Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet was based
on Gyan Prakash’ s book Mumbai Fables. The
cover of Mumbai Fables features a painting
titled “Bombay Buccaneer” by Atul Dodiya. So
what was the inspiration behind this painting?

Question 38
• . He was a popular playback singer of the
1980s ,particularly associated a very
successful composer of the 1980s but after
the death of his brother in 1991, he quit
playback singing and devoted himself to
religion and now is a Gospel Singer. Identify X

Question 40
• What happened for the only time in this song
(though technically this song was ultimately
dropped from the movie)?
Hello Hello Kya Haal Hain

Answer 40
• Kishore Kumar’s only song for Naushad (Movie
–Sunhera Sansar).

Question 41
• She was born in a family of professional singers and
received training in Hindustani classical music since
childhood. She cut her first album at the age of only 14 in
1932 and soon she was recognized as an accomplished
exponent of light classical music. Initially she was known
as XY(with Y being a reference to her gharana of training).
But later on –when she entered playback singing –she was
known as XZ (Z referring to her place of birth in Punjab).
You will hear a remixed version of perhaps her most
popular song.(this version is not in her voice of course).
Give me XY and XZ (no part marks if I get a full answer)

Question 41 contd
AnKhiyan Milaake Jiyan
Bharman Ke Chale Nahi Jaana

Answer 41
• X Y– Zohrabai Agrewali
• XZ – Zohrabai Ambalewali

Question 42
• According to Chaitanya Tamahne, the director of the
movie Court, the preproduction and workshop for his
movie included watching the documentary X which
deals with the 1997 Rambai Dalit Killings by the
police(where the police opened fire on a “peaceful”
march and killed 10 people) and its fallout including
the subsequent legal case. X was 14 years in the
making –as the director wanted to follow the complete
course of the case against the police in the courts.
• Human Rights Watch called X the most important
documentary to come out of India. Identify X.

Question 43
• What are these song the first and last to be?
Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hain Tujhe Dekha to Yeh Jaana
Sanaam

Answer 43
• The first and last songs to top the year end list
of Binaca Geetmala (including its subsequent
name changed avatars).

Question 44
• X was extremely worried that he might not get this iconic death
scene right. He sought help from Mehmood, in whose house he
was then staying. Mehmood said –“ just think that the
unimaginable has happened –and that Y himself is dying – not
just Z. And you will get everything right.” X explains – “It was not
so much a tutorial in acting that he expounded; it was an
exalted acknowledgement of Y’s presence and position in the
psyche of the nation that he was drawing my attention to.”
• Ultimately – the scene became a landmark in Hindi cinema –
and X’s performance was appreciated by all.
• X Y and Z. (five for 2 parts – no part marking if I get a complete
answer)

Answer 44
• X – Amitabh Bacchan
• Y – Rajesh Khanna
• Z – Anand.

Question 45
• . According to director X, Y is his favourite work .But
he is very glad that this 1980s movie was a
commercial failure. Otherwise, says X, he might have
become a better director but one with no money. Y’s
failure made him realise that he needed to add
mainstream sensibilities in his movies to be
successful. About Y –he says that it is the only movie
set in Kashmir which does not exploit its beauty and
that was a conscious decision. Identify X and this
critically acclaimed movie Y which now enjoys cult
popularity.

Answer 45
• X –Vidhu Vinod Chopra
• Y – Khamosh.

Question 46
• The last question –ending the quiz with the
rather unusual end sequence of this movie.
Just Identify the movie.

Answer 46
• In Which Annie Gives it Those ones

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