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.
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
12. Who made Lamhe in 1991 ?
(A) Subhash Ghai (B) Yash Chopra
(C) Aditya Chopra (D) Sakti Samanta
(A) Bling + bling (B) Zeitgeist
(C) Montaz (D) Dooriyan
12. Who made Lamhe in 1991 ?
(A) Subhash Ghai (B) Yash Chopra
(C) Aditya Chopra (D) Sakti Samanta
13. Which movie is associated with Manoj Kumar ?
(A) Jewel in the Crown (B) Kisna
(C) Zaara (D) Desh Ki dharti
14. Which is the latest film by Yash Chopra ?
(A) Deewar (B) Kabhi Kabhi
(C) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (D) Veer Zaara
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
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