prelims chithramela (malayalam movie quiz)

1) Which movie directed by P Subramanium and starring Gemini Ganesan is the first sequel in Malayalam?

Aana Valarthiya Vanampadiyude Makan

2) For their first association in a movie, what was paid by Anjali Menon to Thilakan as advance, which Thilakan termed as the most unique one he had received?

A Few Manjadikkurus. കുറച്ചു മഞ്്ഞജാടികുരുക്കൾ

3) When Krishnaswami started his new venture, he named it after his father Nagakrishna and his mother. Later it was announced that this was named after a famous Emil Zola novel. Name this venture

Nana Weekly

4) Which movie released in 1989 and starring

Raveendranath, Nedumudi Venu, Sreeraman,

Nilambur Balan among othershad its theme

whch revolved around the disappearance of

Thomaskutty?

Alicinte Anveshanam

5)What is the name of MACTA’s newsletter which also indicates number of frames per second that is normally used for movies

24 Frames

6) An ad film made in 2005 for Air Deccan held the then record for the longest ad ever to be telecast on Indian television. The ad titled The Old man and the Sky was meant to mirror the emotions of millions of Indians who could now fly at Re 1. Which national award winning actor played The Old Man in this ad?

Murali

7) Which actor-director gave voice for Ananth Nag for the movie Swathi Thirunnal and for Om Puri for the movie Puravitham?

Venu Nagavalli

8) Who directed the Hindi movies Ithihas(1987) starring Raaj Kumar, Anil Kapoor and Shabana Azmi and Dharm Aur Kanoon(1984) starring Rakesh Khanna, Dharmendra and Asha Parekh. Both were remakes of his Malayalam movies.

Joshiy

9) Who is the only person to win Kerala State

Film Award for Best Director and Best Music Director?

G Aravindan (A self Caricature shown above) music for Ore Thooval Pakshikal in 1988

10) Parayanum Vayya Parayathirikkanum Vayya, _______________, Rakuyilin Ragasadhasil, Megham. Which is the missing movie?

11) The movie was initially made as Vidhiyum Mrs Nayarum. Later the director was replaced and the screenplay altered and the movie was also renamed. Which movie?

Balan

12) As per movie historian Chellangatt Gopalakrishnan this German was probably the only person to direct a Malayalam movie who himself didn't know Malayalam. He was also rumoured to be one among the spies sent by Hitler to British colonies during the World War though these claims remain unverified

Felix M Bayes

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14) General pictures Ravi14) He is generally regarded as the person who sustained the Art Film movement in Kerala.His associaion with Aravindan resulted in ‘Kanchanaseetha’ ‘Thampu’ ‘Kummatti’ ‘Esthapan’ and ‘Pokkuveyil’ and with Adoor Gopalakrishnan the movies included ‘Elipathayam’ ‘Mukhamukham’ , ‘Anantharam’ and ‘Vidheyan’. Identify this JC Daniel award for the year 2008

General pictures Ravi

15) The item shown in visual (next slide) appeared in some bakeries in Kerala after the release of a movie. Some food sites also had the recipe details .What is the name of this cake. No part points, need the exact name

Joans Rainbow Cake

16) Which Brand Ambassador for a jewellery group released the audio CD for the movie 916?

17) Adoor Gopalakrishnan in his book Cinemayude Lokam, says- "The history of Malayalam Cinema is not started with stars who are born with fortunes from sky. But, it is the tearful story of some persons who experimented with their lives and assets. Most of the experiments have been ended in tragedies. We got that history from the articles written by __________ ___________.“ Who?

Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan

18) Only 4 actors(Male/Female) have won JC Daniel Award. List them .

(0.25 points per correct answer)

Here I am looking for people who are predominantly accepted as actors and not at people who might have come in guest roles etc

ThikkurissyMadhuAranmulla PonnamaJose Prakash

19)This Malayalam movie was an adaptation from a Telugu novel written by Sriramana titled - Midhunam. The visual shows the poster of the Telugu movie which was made after the Malayalm one. Id the Malayalam movie

26) Anubhavangal Palichakal

Oru Cheru Punchiri

20) IMDB top 10 based on votes as of 27/5/131) - 11952)Ustad Hotel - 9213)Kalapani - 7724)Thattathin Marayathu - 7505)Adaminte Makan Abu - 7056)Kireedam - 6907)Traffic - 6668)Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja - 6669)Pranchiyettan and The Saint - 65710)Urumi -641

21) Significance of the following clip

(A clip from the movie Anubhavangal Palichakal was shown)

Mammootty’s first screen appearance.In the scene shown, he is standing

besides Bahadoor

22) Consisting of 3 stories - Nagarathinte Mukhangal, Penninte Prapancham and Apaswarangal this movie was directed by TS Muthiah and is the first anthology in Malayalam (Much before Kerala Café and Adaminte Variyellu). Name this movie

23) Bharathan directed Neelakurunji Poothappol. Who is currently directing Neela Kurunji Poothu?

24)Critic, writer and artist S Suresh Babu has drawn 100 caricatures of characters portrayed by Mohanlal. From which movie is the following character?

25)2002 movie Puthuram Puthri Unniyaarcha had its music scored by Usha Khanna for all songs except one which was 'Padam Padam Aaromal Chekavar..' from Aaromal Unni. The music was credited to Devarajan and Lyrics to Vayalar. Which 2 singers sang the song for the new movie?

Vijay Yesudas and Deenanath Jayachandran

26

The visuals for this song from Butterflies was actually from a movie that was started but couldn’t finish. It had Mohanlal playing a race driver. What was the title of this movie?

Australia

27) Kerala is now totally shocked to hear about this news. New movie releases (including Richard Attenborough's Gandhi) has been suspended and some of his old movies are now played in the theatres.

The producer of the latest movie in which he was acting, is in a very bad state. In desperation he requests his brother to act as a dummy.

The political scene in the state is in a worse condition. The ruling government of the day is accused of being lax on investigations. The party in the opposition feels that government did not provide adequate protection . Home minister feels there are international agencies out there involved in the act. What happened?

Prem Nazeerine Kaanmanilla

28) Which recent movie had tributes to Manjil Virinja Pookkal and even had the same names as that of characters played by Mohanlal, Shankar and Poornima for the 3 main characters in the movie?

The two characters played by Fahadh Fazil in Netholi… are called Prem Krishnan and Narendran. Kamalini Mukherji's character is called Prabha. All these were names of the characters played by Shankar, Mohanlal and Poornima in the earlier film

29)Which movie was mentioned by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapyee in his Inaugural speech at the Global Investors Meet in Kochi. The movie was used as a case point to indicate that there is a general impression that Kerala doesnt not offer business friendly climate?

30)One of 1993's biggest hits was recently remade into an Assamese-Bengali bilingual by the producer of the original (also producer of q1) and met with reasonable success. The movie was called Borolar Ghor meaning Bachelor house. What movie?

Meleparambil Aanveedu