100
years of Bollywood Cinema!
Time to check your facts!
66th
Cannes Film Festival celebrated the 100 years of Indian
Cinema this month. Indian cinema is always known for its
escapist theme with vibrant colors and foot-tapping dances.
The movie 'Indra Sabha' had 71 songs, the highest for any
movie. Indian cinemas are usually 3 hours long with a break
(interval) in the middle. 'LOC:Kargil' is the longest Bollywood
movie lasting 4 hours and 25 minutes. In addition to UK
and USA, the Indian cinemas are very popular in other Asian
and African countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, UAE and
South Africa. Despite its popularity, Indian cinema has
very little to show against Academic recognition awards
like Cannes, BAFTA or Oscar. Indian cinema artists have
secured only 4 Oscar awards over a period of 100 years.
Are
you a movie buff? How well you do know about Bollywood cinema?
Give a try!
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Which was the first talking movie released
in Bollywood?
a. Raja Harishchandra
b. Alam Ara
c. Kisan Kanya
d. Neecha Nagar
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When was the term 'Bollywood' coined? Why?
Optional: What is the formal name for 'Bollywood' cinema?
a. 1950, as they copied the term Hollywood
to sound westernized.
b. 1960, as they started colloborating with Hollywood technically
and financially.
c. 1970, when Indian cinema overtook Hollywood as the major
film producer.
d. 1980, when Hollywood needed a term to identify Indian
cinema
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India has 1.2 billion population. What
percentage of this population are known to watch movies
in theater?
a. 25%, 300 million
b. 20%, 240 million
c. 10%, 120 million
d. 4%, 45+ million
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Even though Bollywood is the most popular
Indian cinema outside the world, India also produces maximum
number of high quality regional language movies in the
world. How many regional Indian languages make movies
for their own audiences?
a. 18
b. 20
c. 22
d. 24
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Indian cinemas are known for its spicy mixed
masalas - a mixture of singing, dancing, romance, comedy
and action. The origin of this song and story style is known
to have taken its roots from Oprah. But why was the heros
and heroins were dancing around trees whenever there is
a duet song?
a. Choreography was not that popular in olden
days.
b. Not enough budget was allocated for songs in olden days.
c. Heros and Heroins did not know how to dance.
d. Songs usually take more days to shoot, so want to cut
short the time by filming it simple.
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