film director, who used to shoot 3 films simultaneously, thereby using the same set in all the three and saving on the budgeted cost. Once a reporter asked him about his idea of world cinema. The reply to this question included gems like
Q.5. Identify this Indian director.
He started off as an A-lister and made few movies with the top starcast of the day. Quite a few of these were successful ventures too. Then he chose Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
The Idiot and made a Titanic mess of the film. Since then, he has almost vanished from the mainstream and has made films like
"Mr. Hot Mr. Kool" in the recent past.
shovon chakraborty
Q.6. Identify this B-Grade film from the story line
(if it can be called so).
Mithun-
da is scheduled to marry the heroine, but is killed by the villains -
dhonkhe se, of course. His brain, which looks similar to an oversized and badly cooked
jalebi, is stored in the deep freezer of your average 165 litre home refrigerator, by his friend, a doctor and his servant cum assistant. Madhu, the heroine, loses it totally after hearing about the sad news. Next, she is shown dancing around
(without missing a step!) in different temples and suddenly falls down, further damaging her already damaged brain. So, the doctor performs a surgery and replaces her brain with Mithun
da's. And behold, Mithun
da's brain has a recorded copy of his killing. Now, Madhu takes revenge on the group of villains, pure Mithun
da "ishtyle".
(And I uttered some choicest expletives for the 10 bucks spent on this!)
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Q.7. This actor debuted in 1966 with
Shagird, starring Joy Mukherjee in the lead. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he has acted in one of the biggest blockbusters of Indian cinema, as well as in one of the better Oscar nominated films from India. He has also worked with Rajesh Khanna in a number of films and has walked the ramp for fashion designer Riyaz Ganji for his summer line last year. His early work on stage were known for their Marxist leanings.
Identify the actor.
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Q.8. Identify this Hollywood B-grader.
A super-hero movie, it is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality and in one case, a bit of sex. Melvin has a job as a custodian at a work-out club where his humiliating treatment by the musclebound reaches an ugly climax in which Melvin is forced to jump out of a window. He lands in a toxic waste truck and by some miracle of modern pollution, he is transformed into a pumped-up monster. From that moment onward, he saves damsels and others in distress by some pretty gory mauling and maiming but finds his moment of fulfillment too.
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Q.9. Identify the film, from the original poster, which created a lot of controversy over the depiction of the lead actress.
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Q.10. Identify this 1966 science fiction drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack, which was based on the 1953 novel of the same name. This was Truffaut's first colour film, as well as his only English language film.
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Now you can send your answers as comments to this post. The comments will be moderated till Sunday, 10 June, by which time, the entries will close.
The answers, along with the names of persons trying this and their respective scores, will be published on Monday, 11 June 2012.
Cheers!
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And its the
Answer time to the movies questions. Of all the entries received, no one could get all the answers right. However, all of the names, along with their scores within the parenthesis, is given immediately below all answers.
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Answer Q.1. Glen or Glenda. Although, this was probably the very first movie to have taken up an issue, that of transvestites, long considered a taboo in Hollywood, the production quality was so bad, that the movie has gone down the annals of history as
probably the worst film ever made. For its Director Ed Wood, this movie was only the starting point of a career, in which he made a number of equally bad B-Movies.
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Answer Q.2. No Man's Land. To speak the truth, I was a bit unhappy when
Lagaan lost in the Oscar race, more so, since a film called
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon had won the coveted trophy a few years earlier. But when I saw the film, I was simply blown away. Had Lagaan won, that would have been a terrible injustice.
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Answer Q.3. Taken. Liam Neeson at his best. Some awesome action and he really acted the part of being a pro.
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Answer Q.4. It's none other than
"the man" Swapan Saha. Thankfully, Bengali cinema has grown out of his shadows and these days you would not find a mainstream Saha film.
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Answer Q.5. Parto Ghosh. After delivering hits like
Agnishakshi, a rip-off of
Sleeping With The Enemy, probably out of overconfidence, he took on
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
The Idiot, and made a complete mess of it.
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Answer Q.6. Diya Aur Toofan. This was another one of those
"assembly line" production films starring Mithun Chakraborty when he used to stay at
Ooty to look after his hotels business. Most of these films were so bad that they ultimately became good!
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Answer Q.7. A.K. Hangal. Now, who would think of Hangal as a model?
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Answer Q.8. Toxic Avenger. Now, this one is a serious competition in
OTT-ness to the Telegu cinema, which I had to endure during regular overnight bus journeys to different places in Andhra Pradesh.
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Answer Q.9. Captivity. The films posters had generated more buzz than the film itself.
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Answer Q.10. Fahrenheit 451. This was a tribute question to Ray Bradbury, who passed away recently.
