4. WHAT IS WRONG WITH INDIAN FILMS

1. In which year first short film was produced in India?

 (A) 1907 (AD) ✓          (B) 1919 (AD)        (C) 1925 (AD)         (D) 1947 (AD)

2. which of the following film was produced by Satyajit Ray?

 (A) Pather Panchali (B) Satranj Ke Khiladi (C) Charulata (D) All of these ✓

 3. What does the ward mysterious' mean?

(A) Secret (B) Impossible to Understand ✓ (C) Hidden facts (D) None of these

4. The raw material of Cinema is ……… itself.

 (A) Studio               (B) Camera             (C) Hall          (D) Life ✓

5. It should be realised that the average American film is a

(A) Good Model     (B) Bad Model ✓               (C) Successes          (D) Big Business

6. After all, we do …………. the primary tools of film making.

 (A) Process                         (B) Poses                  (C) Posses                (D) Possess ✓

7. The lifestyle shown in the American films is completely different from ………

(A) The real lifestyle (B) The American lifestyle (C) the Indian lifestyle ✓ (D) none of these

 8. Let us face the

(A) lie            (B) truth ✓              (C) film                      (D) shown

9. Who is the author of ‘What is Wrong with Indian Films’?

 (A) Satyajit Ray ✓ (B) Mahadevi Verma       (C) Vidyapati          (D) Puran Singh

 10. In which of the following international films festival Satyajit Ray received award?

A) Venice                 (B) Cannes               (C) Berlin                  (D) All of these ✓

11. In “What is wrong with Indian Films? the author compares Indian films with …………. films.

(A) Korean               (B) Japanese           (C) Wetern ✓                     (D) Pakistani

12. The Cinema ………….. in various measures the function of poetry, music painting, drama, architecture and a host of other arts, major and minor.

 (A) Combines ✓                (B) Destroys                        (C) Deletes                         (D) Rescues

13. In which year first featured film of India was produced?

 (A) 1913 (AD) ✓   (B) 1925 (AD)         (C) 1935 (AD)          (D) 1947 (AD)

 14. Ray used to compose ………. for his own films.

(A) script      (B) music ✓         (C) songs     (D) none of these

15. According to author, which of the following commands the respect accorded to any other form of creative expression?

 (A) Music    (B) Literature        (C) Cinema ✓          (D) Sports

16. Often by a queer process of reasoning …………… was equated with action and action with melodrama

 (A) Movement ✓             (B) Producing          (C) Acting     (D) Direction

17. What our Cinema needs about everything else is a style, an jdiom, a sort of ………….. of cinema which would be uniquely and recognisably Indian.

 (A) Finance                         (B) Studio     (C) Committee       (D) Iconography ✓

 18. Satyajit Ray was born on

 (A) May 2, 1821    (B) May 2, 1921 ✓                        (C) May 1, 1920     (D) April 2, 1922

19. Who is best known for ‘Pather Panchali’?

(A) Puran Singh      (B) Vidyapati          (C) Satyajit Ray ✓ (D) Dr. Trinath Mishra

 20. But the truly Indian film should ………. clear of such inconsistencies.

(A) Steer ✓ (B) Clear       (C) Stair        (D) Majorly

21. Meaning of the word ‘versatile’ is

(A) mechanical       (B) many-days       (C) many-sided ✓         (D) clear

22. The ……….. of our films are replete visual dissonances?

(A) majority ✓        (B) minority            (C) seniority            (D) inferiority

23. Today, the cinema commands the same respect as any other type of ……..

 (A) art          (B) science   (C) both of these   (D) cleative expression ✓

24. IPTA’S ‘Dharti-ke-Lal’ and Shankar’s ‘Kalpana’ are the two films, who style of production has pleased the

(A) Critics     (B) Author ✓          (C) Public      (D) None

25. What did India take up surprising early?

(A) poetry    (B) story      (C) novel       (D) film production