Read the following
passage and answer the questions:
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.
1. Which word Yash
Chopra would not be able to pronounce?
(A) Bling + bling
(B) Zeitgeist
(C) Montaz
(D) Dooriyan
2. Who made Lamhe in
1991?
(A) Subhash Ghai
(B) Yash Chopra
(C) Aditya Chopra
(D) Sakti Samanta
3. Which movie is associated with Manoj Kumar?
(A) Jewel in the Crown
(B) Kisna
(C) Zaara
(D) Desh Ki dharti
4. Which is the latest
film by Yash Chopra?
(A) Deewar
(B) Kabhi Kabhi
(C) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le
Jayenge
(D) Veer Zaara
5. Which is the dress of
the heroine in Veer-Zaara?
(A) Traditional Gujarati
Clothes
(B) Traditional Bengali
Clothes
(C) Traditional Punjabi
Clothes
(D) Traditional Madras
Clothes
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