Sholay : The Quiz
Winner of this quiz will be crowned as “PFC Maverick of the Month“… and if you are in OC/LA area we buy you a dinner and drinks in/around OC with oz, t!, Sumeet and any other PFC Author who we can bring in – offer open only until December 1st. This contest is also open to all readers and PFC Authors except… sigh… oz…
So you think you know Sholay inside out? Let’s check it out… You have to answer all questions correctly. The first all correct entry will be declared the winner. We may be right or we may get our own answers wrong… but our decision on the quiz is final ;) Last date of submitting your entries – in the comment section is November 18th. Winner will be announced on November 19th.
1. Who was originally supposed to play Gabbar Singh?
2. What is the name of Gabbar Singh’s father?
3. They used many horses in Sholay. What was the color of the horse that Kaalia rode?
4. Did you get the color of Kaalia’s horse right? Ok. How many such colored horses were there in Sholay? (Hint: It’s less than 10)
5. There was one actor in Sholay who ended up playing two different characters in the movie. Name the actor.
6. How many times in the entire movie does Jai speak to Radha?
7. What are the different names Gabbar uses to call Basanti?
8. What was the license plate number of the motorcycle that Veeru and Jai steal and then sing “Yeh Dosti…”?
9. What was the name of Asrani – the “Angrezon ke zamane ke jailor” character in the movie?
10. Two actors from the movie stayed behind after completing their part, to assist Ramesh Sippy in shooting the rest of the movie. Any guesses on who they were?
11. What Filmfare awards did Sholay win and who won them?
12. Who was the cinematographer of Sholay? …nah this would be easy… modified question: Was Sholay shot in 35mm or 70mm?
13. Other than the Sippys, who was the main distributor of Sholay in India?
14. This actor/actress would at times spike his/her coconut water with alcohol and drink it on the sets of Sholay… which actor/actress are we talking about?
15. Name the place they shot the village and Gabbar’s den at?
All the best!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
1. Danny Denzongpa
2. Hari Singh
3. chestnut brown
4. I guess 3 (Kalia’s, Gabbar’s and maybe once in the initial horse chase)
5. Mushtaq Mohammad (train driver, Parsi car driver)
6. twice (returning the keys, returning the lamb)
7. daari, katili nachaniyaa, chamiyaa, rani, chamak-challo,
8. MYB 3047
9. No name given in the movie
10. Sachin and Asrani/Satyen Kappu (though even Amjad Khan did some 2nd unit work, IIRC)
11. Best Editing,
12. Shot in 35mm and blown up later for 70mm
13. Rajshris
14. Dharmendra
15. Ramnagaram
JIYO RAMANAND! JIYO MERE BHAI!!!!! KYA BAAT HAI!!!! I would give you 100/100!
My answers would be:
1) Danny Denzongpa ( he was shooting for dharmatma and turned down this film)
2) Hari Singh (gabbar Singh vald hari singh..etc)- incidentally the only name that figures twice – hari singh and hari ram nai.
3) Brown
4) 6 ( guess)
5) Mushtaq khan
6) twice
7) Raani, chamiya, chmmak challo, kateeli nachaniya,
8) I had no idea!
9) same a no. 8
10) Sachin ( assistand director) and Amjad Khan – production assistant)
11) best editing
12) shot in 35 – blown upto 70mm in london ( the film arrived and was stuck in customs – the premier actually showed the 35 mm version. after this the crew stayed back and saw the 70 mm version – this is when salim khan and amjad khan got into a brawl)
13 Rajshris
14. dharmendra (to avoid hema’s glare)
14. Ramnagaram near bangalore.
Phew!
3)
2)
1. Danny Denzongpa.
2. Hari Singh.
3. Shade of Brown.
4. Guess work says anything between…hmm…1-9!
5. Mushtaq Merchant.
6. Twice.
7. daari, katili nachaniya, chamiya, rani,
chammak challo.
8. MYB 3047.
9. Asrani’s character never had a name and
hence we still refer to him as ‘angrezon
ke zamane ka jailor’!
10. Sachin and Asrani.
11. Just 1 filmfare award! M.S.Shinde for
best editing.
12. Shot in both format – 35mm as well as
70mm. But the theatrical prints were
released in 70mm format.
13. Rajshris.
14. Dharmendra.
15. Ramnagaram near Banglore, India.
Here’s a quiz based on Ramgopal Varma ke Sholay… Mr.OZ and the rest of the gang at PFC, wanna try?
1. In which car (the make) does RGV’s
Gabbar move around in the city?
2. RGV’s Gabbar’s eyes are of different
colors…what are the two different
colored contact lenses used for each eye?
3. RGV’S Gabbar doesn’t carry a belt in his
hand / around his shoulder…then what
weapon does he have in his hand?
4. A mention of gabbar’s brother in the
original Sholay was there, but he’s
never shown in the movie. In RGV’s
version we’ll see gabbar’s never seen
brother! Name the actor who’s playing
gabbar’s brother in RGV’s version.
(clue – this actor was also a part of the
original sholay)
5. How many times has RGV seen the original
Sholay? (clue – it’s less than 50)
Answers will be posted in a week’s time…till then rack your brains!
Oz:
What abt a “Sholay” week? A complete dissection of the classic.
Shatrughan Sinha was approached first also for the role of Jai! He has said it in one of his Interview. Perhaps to Lata Khubchandani when approached for talking on 60th bday of Big B.
1. Danny Denzongpa (he went to shoot for
dharmatma in afghanistan)
2. Hari Singh (Gabbar Singh vald Hari Singh)
(i once took part in a quiz at AFMC,Pune
and d host Ashish Tripathi asked d same
ques.. i gave d correct answer and Ashish
said i was right and added that his full
name was “Hari Singh Nalwa”.I still wonder
where he got “Nalwa” from ???)
3. Brown (the horse was called nefertiti and she
gave a tough time to a lot of people who
tried to ride her.she bore her real brunt on
Mr Viju Khote)
4. it was the only horse of that color
5. Mushtaq Merchant (once as the train driver
and once as the parsi guy)
6. Twice
7. Chammak Challo,Katili Nachaniya,Chamiya,Rani
8. MYB 3047
9. He is referred to as ‘Angrezon Ke Zamaane
Ka Jailor’
10. Amjad Khan and Sachin
11. The only category in which it won was Best
Editing – M S Shinde. (Deewar swept most
of the awards that year)
12. Shot in 35mm and was later blown to 70mm
has the distinction of being India’s first
70mm stereophonic sound film.
13. Rajshri’s
14. Dharamendra
15. Ramnagaram
hey oz…you were to announce the winners of the sholay quiz that you posted…what happened? waiting to hear from your end very soon…anyways here’s the answers to rgv ke sholay quiz – 1)HUMMER 2)GREY AND BROWN 3)SCORPION STICK 4)SACHIN PILGAONKAR 5)27 TIMES
Sorry for the delay… have been caught up in a lot of projects and haven’t had the time…
Most of you Sholay fanatics got most of it right… (as usual my answers may turn out to be incorrect, so do excuse me about my blunder)
1. Danny Denzongpa
2. Hari Singh
3. chestnut brown
4. there was one chestnut brown horse called Nefertiti in the entire movie and she was the most temperamental of all, throwing Viju Khote as many as 17 times off her back that in the end Khote gave up and said he won’t sit on the horse… the solution was found in Khote spread his legs far and wide while sitting on the horse so the horse won’t notice the big strapped to it… and get nervous and start throwing people off.
5. Mushtaq Mohammad (train driver, Parsi car driver)
6. twice (returning the keys, returning the lamb)
7. daari, katili nachaniyaa, chamiyaa, rani, chamak-challo,
8. MYB 3047
9. No name given in the movie
10. Amjad and Sachin stayed long after their portions were canned and done. Amjad infact became the bridge between the foreign stunts team and the rest of sippy’s crew.
11. Best Editing,
12. Most of the movie was shot both in 35 and 70mm except a few portions which were shot in 35mm and later send to England to blow them up into 70mm.
13. Rajshris
14. Dharmendra
15. Ramnagaram
>>shot in 35 – blown upto 70mm in london (after this the crew stayed back and saw the 70 mm version – this is when salim khan and amjad khan got into a brawl)
@sophocles can you expand a bit more on the brawl?
Some more Question just to scratch you head more….
1)—>what is name of ahemad(Sachin) uncle who works in bidi factory?
2)—>name onr more dacoit from Sholay other than
Gabbar,sambha & kalliya….
3) why is basanti nameed as Basanti in movie?
Try these-
1. So the Reg. No of the bike is “MYB 3047″. Hmmm, who do you think Jai and Veery steal it from?
2. In the opening of the film, the jailor is acompanied from the station by someone on a horse whose face is never shown. Who is this faceless dude?
3. Those menacing nails in Thakur’s shoes… who put them under the sole of the shoes?
4. The censors did not allow Sholay to be releases in its original shape and had to be heavily edited to be ‘politially correct’ esp. in the end. What dramatic change did the Sippy’s do in the end of the movie to make it past the censors?
5. Remember Jai watching the wooden planks of the bridge creak due to the weight of a dacoit creeping from under the bridge? What is the name of this dacoit?
it was very detailed quiz
Arre itna sannata kyon hain bhai???
Atul n Arjun why don’t you guys tell us the answers now?
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