FUNDAMENTALS
Villains are a dying breed in the movie world. The no-holdsbarred villains without morals or conscience have now given way to the more nuanced negative characters. Relive the good old days of villains in Hindi movies. Write in with your suggestions, questions (with answers) to senjam@gmail.com VILLAINS 1. Omkar Nath Dhar made his mark first as Narad muni in the 1950s and later as a villain in the 1960s and 70s. What name did he assume when he entered cinema? 2. Which villain started his film career in Lahore where his first Hindi film as a hero was the 1942 movie Khandaan opposite Noor Jehan. In fact,
Khandaan was Noor Jehan’s first film as a heroine. He then went on to play the leading man in movies such as Kaise
Kahoon and Khamosh Nigahen. 3. Villain’s sidekick are rarely remembered. What ten-second role as a sidekick played by Mohan Makhijani will always be remembered by lovers of Indian cinema? 4. Anupam Kher is an unusual choice of a villain. Yet he essayed one of the most remembered characters of Dr Dang. Which movie? 5. To Bollywood fans, it is the name of one of India’s best loved villains. The name was however used in a Hollywood movie and it was coined by Sam Zimbalist from a night club in Hollywood. Identify this character. 6. This actor is known for his work for critically acclaimed movies such as
Arth, Fire, Earth and Water. However, he is known to mass audiences as a villain in a 1980 movie. Identify.
7. Flashback: My Life And Times In Bollywood and
Beyond is the autobiography of a man who was born in Germany, moved to Australia as a child and worked in Vietnam in identifying landmines. Name this baddie. 8. Any snake movie also needs a equally fearsome
tantrik. If Sridevi played the role of Nagina with aplomb, Amrish Puri was the counterfoil villain. What was the name of the
tantrik character played by Amrish Puri? ANYTHING GOES 1. Which state launched cheap sanitary pad scheme ‘Asmita Yojana’ for rural women on International Women’s day March 8, 2018? (Dr Megha Krishnan, CMC, Vellore) 2. Which son of Lord Surya and Sanjana was the first man to die? (Commander G.R. Balakrishnan (Retd), Chennai) 3. Why is the mysterious formula of coke called 7X? (Prabhu Srinivasan, Bengaluru) 4. Some companies across the world are specialising in delivering ‘White Space broadband’. How do these companies provide this service ? (Dee Surendranath, Hyderabad) 5. In the 140 odd years of Test cricket, only two pairs of siblings have scored a century in each innings of a Test match during their career. One of them is Ian Chappell against New Zealand and Greg Chappell against New Zealand and also against the West Indies. Identify the only other pair of siblings to have achieved this landmark. (B.K. Harinath, Mysuru) 6. Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi were honoured at the 2018 Oscar awards as a part of the memorial montage when singer Eddie Vedder did a cover version of which Tom Petty song? (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 7. Samsung, LG, Hyundai are large family founded business conglomerates. What are they called in Korean? (Kartik Venugopal, Chennai) 8. Which profession gets its name from this because historically the persons from this profession kept secrets of people they worked for? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)