FUNDAMENTALS
The 1930s were heady years for Indian cinema. The machine that is known as Bollywood, Tollywood, Sandalwood and Kollywood have been built on the foundations of the pioneers of 1930s. Take this quiz on the forgotten decade of Indian cinema. Write in with your suggestions, questions (with answers) to senjam@gmail.com. SOUND OF MOVIES 1. Which movie tells the tale of the king of an imaginary kingdom Kumarpur and his two wives Dilbahar and Naubahar? 2. If Alam Ara was India's first talkie, the second Indian talkie was in Bengali. Name the movie. 3. Indrasabha starring Master Nissar and Jahan Ara Kajjan is known for having as many as 69 songs. This movie is an adaptation of a play written in 1853 by Sayed Aga Hasan Amanat. For whom was the play written? 4. Khurshid MinocherHomji is feted as India’s first woman composer who mainly composed for the production house Bombay Talkies. How do we better know her? 5. The credit for inventing this is claimed by two production houses — Bombay Talkies and New Theatres. Nitin Bose with R.C. Boral claimed to have introduced this for
Dhoop Chaon. Bombay Talkies claim to have been the first with Jawani ki Hawa in 1935. What are we talking about? 6. The maker of the first Telugu sound film Bhakta Prahlad also made the first Tamil sound film Kalidas in the same year. Name him. 7. How did the movie
Jawani Ki Hawa, the first Hindi sound film of German director Franz Osten. create a scandal in the Parsi community? ANYTHING GOES 1. these What Indianis commonnames — to Agni, Bijli, Akash, Jal, Lehar, Megh, Sagar and Vayu? (Cdr G.R. Balakrishnan (Retd), Chennai) 2. Which company was founded by an English teacher from his one-bedroom apartment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in 1998? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad) 3. During World War II, who did the Nazis refer to as Kriegies? (Daniel Murad, Kochi) 4. Aung San Suu Kyi has always been tipped to be the Prime Minister of Myanmar but has not got this position so far. To which official position was she appointed in 2016? (M.S.M. Abhijith, Secunderabad) 5. Which fictional sport was invented after the author had a tiff with her boyfriend and later she locked herself up in a hotel suite? (Rajeev G Pillai, Kochi) 6. Green colour of leaves is due to the presence of chlorophyll. The presence of what pigment enables a leaf to turn blue, red or purple? (M.S. Abhigna, Secunderabad) 7. He played first class cricket for Maharashtra and Mumbai and 21 ODIs and one Test match for India against Pakistan. He acted in a few films and a number of TV serials (Hindi). At present he can be seen portraying a very important role in a Hindi mythological TV serial. Name him and the TV serial. (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad)