Q1. Santosh Dutta became quite a celeb after acting in Ray movies and often while travelling to his office he would listen to comments on him from fellow passengers in bus and tram which made him awkward, as a result he started walking from office to home before his lawyer colleagues in Court insisted him to buy a car. Which Car did he buy?
[ Right answer given below ]Navy Blue Ambassador
Q2. Viru Shastrabuddhi rarely wasted time as shown in the movie 3 Idiots, so was Natabor Mitter (played by Robi Ghosh) in Ray's Jana Aranya, when Pradip Mukherjee's character wanted to meet him for the valuable advice on supply chemicals to Goenka where did he ask him to meet?
[ Right answer given below ]In a Salon while Shaving
Q3. During the shooting of the movie Pather Panchali , child actor Subir Banerjee was picked up from home to the shooting spot by a Taxi Driver who later owned a famous Dhaba in South Kolkata. Who?
[ Right answer given below ]Bachan Singh
Q4. In the movie Charulata when Amal (played by Soumitra Chatterjee) visits his elder cousin Bhupati(played by Shailen Mukherjee) he is seen humming a song as he enters Bhupati's library of great books, incidentally the song 'historically' comes back in another Ray movie a little more than a decade after Charulata where another actor is seen humming it. Which song ?
[ Right answer given below ]Jaab Chhod chale Lucknow Nagari
Q5. In Ray's Award Winning movie Ashani Sanket(The Distant Thunder), we see a discussion among villagers during World War II as airplanes disturb the peaceful sky, where someone curiously asks about a country that Japan had recently taken over but they had no clue where it is, as a character remarked that it must be near a certain district of Bengal. Which district ?
[ Right answer given below ]Mednipore
Q6. The shooting for this movie was halted for a while as the lead actor had to go to Europe as his other film was so well received that the cast was invited at the Berlin Film Festival. This prompted Ray to start the production of another film of his. Which two movies in question?
[ Right answer given below ]Jalsaghar, Parash Pathar
Q7. A TOI article from last decade reported how as per Shambhu Bhattacharya this film is said to have convinced Ray to take a certain 'step' for his film Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen but was then gathering dust at a godown in of a courier company in Mumbai's Jogeswari, this movie was restored in Bologna spending over 20 Lacs & almost 3 years time. Which movie ?
[ Right answer given below ]Kalpana
Q8. If the first question's answer had to do with the power house of the cell & the second answer was Clement Atlee, what was the third and final answer in this iconic Ray movie scene?
[ Right answer given below ]Vietnam War
Q9. In Ray's Nayak we see that iconic scene where Mukuda Lahiri dominates Arindam in the shooting set, which film were they shooting ? Also, later when Mukunda had three to four flops he went to Arindam asking for a small role to sustain in the industry and recalled about his first film back in 1923 which incidentally was also an adaptation of the same writer (as in first part of the q). Which film?
[ Right answer given below ]Devi Chaudhurani, Kapalkundala
Q10. In Ray's Mahapurush just before the expose we see that a bhakt visit the Holy Man and ask if his meals are served well and if there're some arrangements that they can do, the Mahapurush replied to a certain dish he had during the Stone Age, immediately the household worker replied through a Bengali rhyming which meant "Fruits Would have helped but we might get this in New Market". Which Dish?
[ Right answer given below ]Hippopotamus Roast
Q11. This director was inspired into making movies when an Oscar winner from the movie Pulp Fiction asked him to chase his dreams to make movies and have no back up plans in life. One of his most talked about movies had a poster which certainly depicted a hero surrounded by enemies pointing their fingers at him & thus resembled the poster of a Ray movie. Which director ? Also, Identity the Ray film.
[ Right answer given below ]Amit Masurkar, Ganashatru
Q12. Wes Anderson's Darjeeling Limited had a soundtrack from many movies that are Ray directed, however there at least two movies which he didn't direct but contribute with his work. Which two movies ?
[ Right answer given below ]Shakespearewallah, Baksha Badal
Q13. In the memory game scene of Aranyer Din Ratri which two names had created a confusion among the players and needed further clarification?
[ Right answer given below ]Kennedy , Helen
Q14. In Jana Aranya, Santosh Dutta played a cameo of a man interested in colonial mansions which are being brought down, he says the protagonist where ever he gets to see any demolition he should let him know and earn his commission. When asked about his name he aptly said he would remember his name through a history of a temple. Which temple ?
[ Right answer given below ]Somnath Temple
Q15. He ran away to Bombay and spent nights at a ticket counter at Dadar railway station. As fate would have it, he met a make-up man called K L Maitra, who was then working in a Noor-Jehan and Shyam starrer, Nadaan. He started off as a make-up assistant, at times doubling up as a clap-boy. However, he later on went on to take up a big role in Ray films. Who?
[ Right answer given below ]Dulal Dutta
Q16. "Porshu toh Shasthi" & "Dori dhore maro taan raja hobe khan khan" are two iconic dialogues in Bengali Film History. In both these ray movies the person behind the statues or idols was same who was a renowned figure in Kumartuli. Who?
[ Right answer given below ]Jiten Pal
Q17. In an iconic scene of Apur Sansar, Apurbo Kumar Roy(an aspiring writer) explained Pulu that people who are really talented don't need to earn their bread and butter by taking the job of a clerk. He cited five examples, of which three are Dickens, Keats & Lawrence. Who are the other two coming from the same part of the world?
[ Right answer given below ]Gorky, Dostoevsky
Q18. Which Ray film's opening credits, tellingly, play out against an image of a tram's trolley pole moving along a cable as the focus remained on the pantograph like apparatus as the title cards went by with Ray's brilliant background music ?
[ Right answer given below ]Mahanagar
Q19. 19. The Trains shown in the movie Nayak served the upper class society, Ray even had dialogues where Middle Class Executives mentioned how it's tough to afford a drink on that train, however the upper class was happy with the lines "Ei train gulo kintu besh baniyeche", back then they were called AC Deluxe Express, a precursor to the changed name to Howrah Delhi route. What was the train rechristened as?
[ Right answer given below ]Poorva Express
Q20. Hope you all 'liked the quiz', here's the last question and I had to end it with Ray's last movie Aguntuk. When the stranger first arrives at the place of his relative he was offered a refreshment. He was surprised to see the spelling of the product and enquired to the kid that if he also has learnt the same spelling or not. The man in fact liked & praised the Desi product. What ?
[ Right answer given below ]Thumps Up Soft Drink