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Dadamoni, Ashok Kumar, R.I.P
A tribute to the versatile and respected actor
ANIRUDHA BHATTACHARJEE

1. Ashok Kumar Ganguly, aka Dadamoni, was born on October 13, 1911. This date, though auspicious in his life, also marked the death of a near and dear one in the year 1987. Who?

Shobha Debi, his wife
Kishore Kumar, his brother
Gauri Debi, his mother

2. Ashok Kumar's maternal grandfather Shibchandra was the zamidar of an eastern town. To the locals, he was known as Shibchandra Raja. Where was this?

Coochbehar
Bhagalpur
Purnea

3. As a young boy, Ashok Kumar had the habit of telling stories to all and sundry. One of the persons whom he tried to impress with his storytelling abilities later became a very well known personality in his chosen field. Who ?

Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Rabindranath Tagore
Rudyard Kipling

4. Ashok Kumar came to Bombay while he was pursuing studies at Calcutta to become a Lab assistant. Where?

Glaxo Laboratories
Pfizer
Bombay Talkies

5. What was the name of Ashok Kumar's brother-in-law who was instrumental in bringing him to Bombay?

Sasadhar Mukherjee
Subodh Mukherjee
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

6. Each of the Ganguly brothers had two names, one beginning with the first alphabet of the vowel and the other with the first consonant of the devnagri script. What was Ashok Kumar's alias?

Kanchan Kumar
Kumudlal
Kamalakanta

7. Arrange the Ganguly brothers in the order of their age.

Ashok Kumar - Kishore Kumar - Anup Kumar
Ashok Kumar - Anup Kumar - Kishore Kumar
Ashok Kumar - Arun Kumar - Kishore Kumar

8. Ashok Kumar's foray into acting was more of an accident. Najamul Hassan, the leading man for a Bombay Talkies film had eloped with the leading lady of the film. Though honour was restored by bringing back the leading lady, Najamul was summarily sacked and a young, awkward Ashok Kumar forced into playing the lead. Who was the leading lady and what was the film ?

Devika Rani, Jeewan Naiyya
Leela Chitnis, Prabhat
Devika Rani , Achut Kanya

9. Which film company did Ashok Kumar form after defecting from Bombay Talkies?

Filmalaya
Filmistan
Filmyug

10. Reference the previous question, one of the co-founders of the said film studio was the father of a would be music genius. Who was he?

Rai Bahadur Chuni Lal, father of Madan Mohan
Dinanath Mangeshkar, father of Lata Mangeshkar
S D Burman, father of Rahul Dev Burman

11. In 1947, Ashok Kumar again took over the reins of Bombay Talkies after a particular person associated with the studio had left. Who?

Chandulal Shah
Prithiviraj Kapoor
Devika Rani

12. Which Ashok Kumar starrer, featuring him as an anti-hero, ran for an unprecedented 187 weeks at Roxy, Calcutta, a record broken only by Sholay till date

Achut Kanya
Kismet
Jhoola

13. Which child star played the role of young Ashok Kumar is Gyan Mukherjee's crime thriller Sangram?

Nutan, dressed up as a boy
Shashi Kapoor
Amit Kumar

14. Which song among these did Kishore Kumar specially compose to be featured on Ashok Kumar?

Aa chal ke tujhe from Door Gagan ke chhaon mein
Phir suhani sham dhali from Badti ka naam daari
Bekarar dil tu gaye ja from Door ka Rahi

15. Driving past a dilapidated house in Khandala gave Ashok Kumar the idea for which film?

Mahal
Musafir
Bhoot Bangla

16. Who did Ashok Kumar accuse of taking advantage of his goodwill to produce and direct a film as a result of which his own film Parineeta suffered?

Satyajit Ray for Pather Panchali
Bimal Roy for Do Bigha Zameen
Guru Dutt for Pyaasa

17. Which is the only film where Ashok Kumar and Dilip Kumar appeared in parallel roles?

Deedar
Bewafa
Kangan

18. Readers of this column know that Ashok Kumar had claimed to have sung India's first ever rap number 'Rail gadi Rail gadi' in the film Aashirwaad. Question is, who wrote the song?

Harivanshrai Bachchan
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Pandit Narendra Sharma

19. Which was the first film starring the three Ganguly brothers in lead roles?

Chalti ka naam gadi
Bhai Bhai
Bandi

20. Ashok Kumar had many interests, including chess and astrology. He claimed to have predicted many notable events in his family. Regarding his own fate, he once said that had his birth time been different by a few minutes, he would have ended up in another profession. What ?

A hardware dealer
A pop fiction writer
A king

21. One of Dadamoni's many facets was his interest in painting to which he was introduced by an amateur painter friend. Who?

Sitara Devi, ace dancer
Ifteqar, the character actor
Basu Chatterjee, director

22. In his autobiography, Ashok Kumar came out very strongly against the self publicity of politicians and cited, not one, but two incidents he was witness to in support of his venom. Who were the two politicians in question?

Nehru and Patel
Patel and Jinnah
Nehru and Subhash Bose

23. What connects Preeti Ganguli (Dadamoni's daughter), Vijay Anand and Vinod Khanna?

All ex-Rajneeshites
All made their debut in the same film - Jewel Thief
All were disciples of Swami Chinamayananda

24. Which of these languages he could not write in?

Bengali
Hindi
French

25. As a young actor, Ashok Kumar had a few crushes on heroines working with him. Who, according to him was his first crush?

Madhubala
Vijayalakshmi
Sumitra Devi

26. Which was his first much publicised romance ? (It did raise a few hiccups at his homefront too)

Nalini Jaywant
Meena Kumari
Suchitra Sen

27. Which film did Ashok Kumar produce, raising funds from the Bombay Talkies co-operative? This was his last effort to revive the dying Bombay Talkies in 1954, after which it closed down.

Mahal
Badbaan
Chal Chal re Naujawan

28. Which film gave Ashok Kumar the Bharat Puruskar, the award presently known as the National Award for the Best actor in Indian films?

Bandini
Aashirwaad
Khatta Meetha

29. Though he never directed a film formally, Ashok Kumar used to contribute in great detail to all aspects of filmmaking. For this trait, he had always expressed his gratitude to one of his gurus in Bollywood. Who?

Bimal Roy
Sasadhar Mukherjee
Mehboob Khan

30. As the grand old man of Indian cinema, Ashok Kumar played the anchor role of a very famous TV serial,where he used to sum up each episode. What was the serial in question?

Khandaan
Yeh jo hai zindagi
Humlog



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