Read the following passage and answer the question
nos. 11 to 15 :
After almost three decades of contemplating
Swarovski-encrusted navels on increasing flat abs, the Mumbai film industry is
on a discovery of India and itself. With budgets of over 30 crore each, four
soon to be released movies by premier directors are exploring the idea of who
we are and redefining who the other is. It is a fundamental question which the
bling-bling, glam-sham and disham-disham tends to avoid. It is also a question
which binds an audience when the lights go dim and the projector rolls : as a
nation, who are we ? As a people, where are we going ?
The Germans coined a word for it, zeitgeist, which
perhaps Yash Chopra would not care to pronounce. But at 72, he remains the
person who can best capture it. After being the first to project the diasporic
Indian on screen in Lamhe in 1991, he has returned to his roots in a new movie.
Veer Zaara, set in 1986, where Pakistan, the traditional other, the part that
got away, is the lover and the saviour. In Subhas Ghai’s Kisna, set in 1947,
the other is the English woman. She is not a memsahib, but a mehbooba. In Ketan
Mehta’s The Rising, the East India Englishman is not the evil oppressor of
countless cardboard characterisations, which span the spectrum from Jewel in
the Crown to Kranti, but an honourable friend.
This is Manoj Kumar’s Desh Ki dharti with a difference
: there is culture, not contentious politics; balle balle, not bombs : no
dooriyan (distance), only nazdeekiyan
(closeness).
All four films are heralding a new hero and heroine.
The new hero is fallible and vulnerable, committed to his dharma, but also not
afraid of failure - less of a boy and more of a man. He even has a grown up
name : Veer Pratap Singh in Veer-Zaara and Mohan Bhargav in Swades. The new
heroine is not a babe, but often a bebe, dressed in traditional Punjabi
clothes, often with the stereotypical body type as well, as in Bride and
Prejudice of Gurinder Chadha.
11. Which word
Yash Chopra would not be able to pronounce ?
(A) Bling + bling (B)
Zeitgeist
(C) Montaz (D)
Dooriyan
Answer: B
12. Who made Lamhe
in 1991 ?
(A) Subhash Ghai (B) Yash
Chopra
(C) Aditya Chopra (D) Sakti
Samanta
Answer: B
13. Which movie is
associated with Manoj Kumar ?
(A) Jewel in the Crown (B)
Kisna
(C) Zaara (D)
Desh Ki dharti
Answer: D
14. Which is the
latest film by Yash Chopra ?
(A) Deewar (B)
Kabhi Kabhi
(C) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (D)
Veer Zaara
Answer: D
15. Which is the
dress of the heroine in Veer-Zaara ?
(A) Traditional Gujarati Clothes
(B) Traditional Bengali Clothes
(C) Traditional Punjabi Clothes
(D) Traditional Madrasi Clothes
Answer: C
16. Which one of
the following can be termed as verbal communication ?
(A) Prof. Sharma delivered the lecture in the class room.
(B) Signal at the cross-road changed from green to orange.
(C) The child was crying to attract the attention of the mother.
(D) Dipak wrote a letter for leave application.
Answer: C
17. Which is the
24 hours English Business news channel in India ?
(A) Zee News (B) NDTV 24×7
(C) CNBC (D) India News
Answer: C
18. Consider the
following statements in communication :
(i) Hema Malini is the Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society,
India.
(ii) Yash Chopra is the Chairman of the Central Board of Film
Certification of India.
(iii) Sharmila Tagore is the Chairperson of National Film Development
Corporation.
(iv) Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Preeti Zinta have all been recipients
of Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
(A) (i) and (iii) (B)
(ii) and (iii)
(C) (iv) only (D)
(iii) only
Answer: No option is correct
Explanation:
Children's
Film Society of India (CFSI) is a nodal organization of Government of India that
produces children's films and various TV programs in various Indian languages.
Established in 1955, CFSI functions comes under the Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting, Government of India and is headquartered in Mumbai. Veteran actor
Mukesh Khanna is the present chairperson (check who is now) of the CFSI.
Central Board
of Film Certification (CBFC) (often referred to as the Censor Board) headquarters at Mumbai is a Statutory body under
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the
Cinematograph Act 1952. Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they
have been certified by the Central Board of Film Certification. Film producer
Pahlaj Nihalani is the present chairperson (check who is now) of the CBFC.
National Film
Development Corporation of India (NFDC) based in Mumbai is the central
agency established to encourage the good cinema movement in the country. The
primary goal of the NFDC is to plan, promote and organize an integrated and
efficient development of the Indian film industry and foster excellence in
cinema. The NFDC (and its predecessor the Film Finance Corporation) has so far
funded / produced over 300 films.
19. Which of the
following pair is not correctly matched ?
(A) N. Ram : The Hindu (B)
Barkha Dutt : Zee News
(C) Pranay Roy : NDTV 24×7 (D)
Prabhu Chawla : Aaj taak
Answer: B
20. “Because you
deserve to know” is the punchline used by :
(A) The Times of India (B)
The Hindu
(C) Indian Express (D)
Hindustan Times
Answer: D
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