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Misc -2
100
In 2003, X held an infamous press conference complaining that Y had threatened him 41 times in one night over his relationship with Z. X's career arguably never recovered.
Identify X,Y and Z
X - Vivek Oberoi
Y- Salman Khan
Z- Aishwarya Rai
100
This 2012 remake of The Italian Job features Neil Nitin Mukesh playing the main antagonist
Players
100
Mere paas Maa hai
Deewar
100
In October 2003, this confectionery giant faced its biggest brand crisis in India when consumers in Maharashtra found insect larvae inside two retail bars. The company spent an estimated ₹15+ crore on a recovery program including new metallized packaging called 'Project Vishwas' — anchored by the most trusted celebrity in India at the time, signed in early 2004. Name the brand AND the celebrity.
Cadbury Dairy Milk; Amitabh Bachchan
100
Who tweeted the following?
Salman Khan
100
Which song made history in 2023 by becoming the first track from an Indian production to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
Naatu Naatu (RRR)
100
Which Indian city was used to recreate the high-speed chase scene from Dhurandhar?
Chandigarh
100
A conservative but poor landlord helps two morons, and later all three embark on an adventure journey together after a suspicious phone call
Hera Pheri
100
Sometimes we match like a saree and its lining. Sometimes I leave my heart, sometimes I catch it
Saree ke fall sa
100
This orange Hermes Kelly bag made of ostrich skin costs upwards of $20,000. Which movie did it feature in?
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
200
What had just happened before this photo was clicked?
Salman SRK Fight
200
The 1999 French short film "L'Accordeur" about a fake-blind piano tuner, just 13 minutes long and directed by Olivier Treiner, was the unofficial seed for one of the most acclaimed Hindi thrillers of the 2010s.
Andhadhun
200
This catchphrase from a 2009 film has its real-world origin in a Marathi-speaking night watchman from a Mumbai chawl who used it to signal that the building was secure.
All izz well
200
In 2003, this actress became one of the first Indian women appointed as a brand ambassador for a global cosmetics giant. Her annual appearances on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet for the brand have continued for 22+ years, including the famous 2007 'lavender lipstick' look, the 2012 'Elie Saab gown' moment, and the 2024 'mom and daughter' arrival. Name the actress AND the brand.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ; L'Oréal Paris.
200
Guess the actor from their filmography
Karan Johar
200
These two films currently hold the joint record for most Filmfare Awards won by a single film - 13 each. One is a 2019 street-rap drama; the other is a 2024 Kiran Rao satirical comedy.
Identify both movies
Gully Boy (2019) and Laapata Ladies (2024)
200
What movie was shot in this European city?
DDLJ
200
An NRI stalks a girl from New Zealand to India because he looks like her dead boyfriend
Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
200
I'm an Indian grilled chicken, my friend. Wash me down with alcohol.
Fevicol Se
200
What's common between these 4 characters?
1. Shahid Kapoor (Kabir Singh)
2. Hrithik Roshan (War)
3. Ranbir Kapoor (YJHD)
4. Shahrukh Khan (Chak De India)
All are named "Kabir"
300
Alleged emails from which cheating scandala from the 2010s?
Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut
300
The 2000 Argentine con-artist film "Nine Queens" by Fabián Bielinsky, set entirely over one chaotic afternoon in Buenos Aires, was officially remade by Rohan Sippy in 2005.
Identify the movie
Bluffmaster
300
This six-word 2007 SRK line is a meta-reference: it is itself a line from a 1980 Naseeruddin Shah film, where it was delivered as a serious motivational closing, but in 2007 it became a comic farewell to the film itself
Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost
300
This single celebrity-brand association is, at 27+ years and counting, the second-longest continuous celebrity endorsement deal in Indian history.
(a) Name the company.
(b) Name the model SRK launched the campaign with.
(Bonus Points) Name the only Indian celebrity-brand deal that runs longer than this one.
(a) Hyundai.
(b) Santro.
(c) Sachin Tendulkar + MRF Tyres (since 1990, ~35 years and counting).
300
A famous Bollywood song had to be improvised at the very last moment. A government body refused permission to shoot the song at the intended location, citing inconvenience that would arise to commoners. It was then that the director came with a workaround.
The shooting was eventually wrapped up across a stretch of 4.5 days. Extra dancers were taken for the shoot as a precaution against injuries. When describing the shoot, the choreographer mentioned that "At the end of each day, we'd be covered in soot, with pieces of ____ clogging our noses, ears and stuck to our hair”
What song am I talking about here?
Chaiyya Chaiyya
300
Identify the actor from this National Film Award progression:
2014: Won Best Actress for a film about a Delhi girl
2015: Won Best Actress AGAIN, the next year, for sequel where she played a double role.
2019: Won Best Actress a fourth time, this win shared between two of her own films released in the same year.
Kangana Ranaut
300
This luxurious themed suite honors a legendary Bollywood director who frequently shot his iconic chiffon-saree song sequences in the surrounding snow-capped mountains
Identify the director and the location
Yash Chopra Suite - located within the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa in Interlaken, Switzerland
300
A dude manipulates everyone around him because he is dying but he feels that he is doing it to protect a girl.
Kal Ho Na Ho
300
I have started belonging to you, I have started losing myself (in you), ever since I met you
Tera hone laga hu
300
Guess the person
Anubhav Sinha
400
Provide context for these tweets:
400
This 2007 Mohit Suri film starring Emraan Hashmi, set in Hong Kong's underbelly, was a Hindi adaptation of the Korean cult classic A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Awarapan
400
This Bollywood director X, who would go on to make critically acclaimed films, was hired by Danny Boyle in 2008 to write the entire Hindi-language dialogue track for an Oscar-winning film Y. He shared the on-screen credit with the film's casting director, Loveleen Tandan.
Anurag Kashyap wrote the Hindi dialogues for Slumdog Millionaire.
400
Identify the brand from this 80-year ambassador progression — the longest-running celebrity testimonial campaign in Indian advertising history:
1941: Leela Chitnis (the original)
1960s-70s: Madhubala, Mumtaz, Hema Malini
1980s-90s: Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla
2000s: Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif
2010s: Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra
Lux (the Hindustan Unilever beauty soap).
400
Snoop Dogg's first appearance on a Bollywood soundtrack was for which Akshay Kumar film, and what title did he pretend not to be able to pronounce in his promo videos?
Singh Is Kinng (2008): He pronounced it deliberately as "Sing-IS-King"
400
At the 2006 Filmfare Awards, this film won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress and the lead actor was 63 years old at the time, the oldest ever to win Best Actor at Filmfare.
ID the actor and movie
Amitabh Bachchan for Black
400
Which famous biographical movie featured this railway station?
MS Dhoni - The Untold Story
400
Man needs to kill. He doesn’t know why, but he knows he needs to kill. Polaroids are taken.
Ghajini
400
From the mother's womb to the crematorium, your entire story, at every step, O dear, is a match
Dangal
400
The 2008 film Ghajini starring Aamir Khan and Asin was the first-ever Bollywood movie to do what?
To enter the 100 crore club
500
In November 2015, at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, this superstar made a single comment about a conversation with his wife, leading to:
(a) Snapdeal dropping him as brand ambassador within 72 hours
(b) #BoycottSnapdeal trending for a week, and
(c) The actor not appearing on Indian television for nearly a year.
Identify the actor and what was the comment he made?
Aamir Khan. He said his wife (Kiran Rao) had asked whether they should consider leaving India because of rising "intolerance"
500
Sanjay Gupta's 2002 multi-starrer (Amitabh, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav) was an unofficial Hindi reworking of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs set in Los Angeles
Kaante
500
This four-syllable Hindi word did not exist in any dictionary before September 1, 2006. By December 2006 it was being used in Lok Sabha speeches and newspaper editorials, and by 2007 it had been added to multiple Hindi-English dictionaries. The film that coined it was a sequel.
Gandhigiri: coined by Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and Abhijat Joshi for Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006).
500
Connect these three Bollywood superstar–brand pairings, all running concurrently in the early 2000s:
1. Aamir Khan, signed 2003
2. Salman Khan, signed 2002 (and continuing)
3. Shah Rukh Khan, signed 1998 (until ~2009)"
All three were the faces of India's three competing cola brands during the 2000s 'Cola Wars.'
Aamir = Coca-Cola
Salman = Thums Up
SRK = Pepsi
500
This song was originally composed by A.R. Rahman in 2007–08 for Subhash Ghai's Salman Khan film 'Yuvvraaj.' Ghai rejected it, saying it didn't fit the film's tone. Rahman shelved it. Months later, when X (director) asked him for a closing-credits track for a Mumbai-set film, Rahman pulled the rejected piece off his shelf, asked Gulzar to write Hindi lyrics, and submitted it. Eight months later, it had won several accolades.
Identify the song
"Jai Ho" written by Gulzar, composed by A.R. Rahman, used in Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
500
Connect the following non-exhaustive list
The Good Road
Liar's Dice
Court
Visaranai
Newton
Village
Rockstars
Gully Boy
Jallikattu
Pebbles
Last Film Show
2018
Laapataa Ladies
Homebound
India's submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
500
This 2002 film built what was, at the time, the most expensive single set in Indian film history: a multi-story brothel/courtesan's haveli at Mumbai's Film City, costing approximately ₹12 crore for the set alone. The set was so massive it required structural engineering review.
Devdas (2002): Chandramukhi's kotha set.
500
Girl impersonated her best friend to talk to her crush and eventually steals him from said best friend right before her wedding
Mujhe Dosti Karoge
500
I always miss you, my beloved
And my eyes call out to you
And even if the whole world is around me
I will always be in need of you
Kaho na Kaho
500
Despite its modest budget, this 2017 film became an international phenomenon. It is currently the 8th highest-grossing Indian movie of all time and remains the highest-grossing Bollywood film led by a female actor. Name the movie
Secret Superstar
600
On October 28, 2016, two Diwali-release Bollywood films opened on the same day — one was X's (director) romantic drama, the other a Diwali action film starring an actor whose wife had been X's best friend for 25 years. The simultaneous release destroyed that 25-year friendship publicly, and X dedicated an entire chapter of his 2017 autobiography to it
Identify the two films and X
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) vs Shivaay (Ajay Devgn). The friendship was Karan Johar and Kajol's. The autobiography is "An Unsuitable Boy" (2017).
600
Who plays the character of Bruce's rival, Evan Baxter (originally played by Steve Carrell) in this 2008 remake of Bruce Almighty?
Sohail Khan
600
Connect these three names to a single June 2015 consumer-product crisis:
1. Madhuri Dixit
2. Amitabh Bachchan
3. Preity Zinta
All three were named in FSSAI/consumer-protection complaints as celebrity brand ambassadors during the Maggi noodles ban of June 2015.
600
No Man's Land is a 2001 Bosnian war drama film that is set in the midst of the Bosnian War. It is a critically acclaimed firm and is directed by Danis Tanović.
How is this movie related to Bollywood?
Lagaan lost the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film to "No Man's Land"
600
The below temple in Himachal Pradesh features in which 2010s movie?
Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
600
While many people have been hurt over the portrayal of a character inspired by them in films, this was a unique case where someone was miffed at the mention of their name in a movie.
X, the then general secretary of Hindustan Football Club had shared that the movie had made him and many others with the same name infamous. X expressed discontent with the producer of the movie as well, labelling him as infamous.
It still remains a mystery as to how this mention slipped past Censor Board’s hand.
ID X
D. K. Bose (Delhi Belly)