His father, Sachin Dev Burman
Actor Ashok Kumar
Composer Naushad

2. Which school connects Pancham, Satyajit Ray and director Ajoy Biswas?

Tirthapati Institution, Calcutta
Calcutta School of music
Ballygaunge Government High School

3. Who, among these, was one of R.D.'s sarod gurus?

Asish Khan
Allauddin Khan
Hafiz Ali Khan

4. With which of these sports was R.D. closely associated as a youngster in Calcutta?

Swimming
Cricket
Table Tennis

5. Which instrument did Pancham usually play as an amateur musician in Calcutta?

Sarod
Sax
Mouth Organ

6. Which artist was R.D.'s tabla guru in Calcutta?

K.C. Dey
Brojen Biswas
Samta Prasad

7. R.D. often used to accompany his father on various instruments. Which instrument did he play during the recording of S.D.'s Ghum bhulechi nijhum, the original Bengali version of Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare chakle gaye?

Guitar
Sarod
Madal

8. Which tune did S.D. borrow from his son's repertoire for the film Funtoosh in 1956?

Dukhi man mere
Sar jo tera chakraye
Aai meri topi palat ke aa

9. Which of these shelved films was R.D's first break as an independent music director?

Guru Dutt's Raaz
Raj Kapoor's Ajanta
Guru Dutt's Gauri

10. Which was R.D's first released film as a composer?

Chote Nawab
Bhoot Bangla
Teesri Manzil

11. Who was the producer of R.D's first released film?

Dev Anand
Shammi Kapoor
Mehmood Ali

12. What was Pancham's first film as an actor?

Bhoot Bangla
Ajnabee
Pyar ka Mausam

13. In which of these songs did R.D. introduce the Brazilian rhythm pattern Bossa Nova?

Sharm aati hai magar in Padosan
Maar dalega dard-e-jigar in Pati Patni
Chanda O Chanda in Lakhon mein ek

14. Which was the first film where R.D. composed for film star Rajesh Khanna, with whom he had maximum number of hits?

Kati Patang
Baharon Ke Sapne
Humshakal

15. Who were the three main assistants R.D. used in his thirty-three year tenure as a composer?

Basu Chakrabarty, Manohari Singh and Maruti Rao Keer
Bablu Chakrabarty, Manohari Singh and Maruti Rao Keer
Sapan Chakrabarty, Manohari Singh and Maruti Rao Keer

16. Who was R.D's first wife?

Asha Bhonsle
Preeti Sapru
Rita Patel

17. Which of these songs composed by R.D. did Dev Anand agree to use only in parts as he felt that the song would spoil his presence?

Main tasveer utarta hun in Heera Panna
Dum maro dum in Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Chal saathi chal in Ishq Ishq Ishq

18. Who said this about R.D. - 'The only musical phenomenon that happened in the last 20 years of our film era'?

Music maverick Salil Choudhury
Louis Banks, pianist cum arranger
A.R. Rahman

19. What was Rahul Dev Burman's screen name in the film Bhoot Bangla?

Pancham
Hearty
Stocky

20. When the director heard about the instrument to be used, he was skeptical about the end effect and advised Pancham not to use it. R.D. requested him to give it a try, and the effect was marvelous. Not to mention that the music was a very big hit. Which film, director and instrument combination fits the query?

Dev Anand, Hare Rama Hare Krishan, Bass Guitar
Shakti Samanta, Kati Patang, Synthesizer
Narender Bedi, Jawani Diwani, French Horn

21. Which Pancham group member played the guitar almost continuously as the lead cum rhythm instrument during the song Ek hi khwab, kai baar dekha maine (Kinara, 1977)?

Amit Kumar
Tony Vaaz
Bhupinder

22. For which of these documentaries did R.D. compose the music? Hint: It was directed by the mercurial director S.Sukhdev?

And miles to go
Maa Ki Pukaar
Hamara Shahar

23. R.D.'s first Bengali film Rajkumari was a musical flop. Paradoxically, most of the tunes were later used in various Hindi films, and all of them were superhits. The films where the Rajkumari tunes were used were:

Bandhe Haath, Yadoon ki Baraat, Amar Prem, Kati Patang, Jawani Diwani
Bandhe Haath, Hum kissise kum nahin, Amar Prem, Kati Patang, Caravan
Shehzada, Yadoon ki Baraat, Caravan, Kati Patang, Jawani Diwani

24. Which producer used R.D. for all the films he made?

Randhir Kapoor
Ramesh Behl
Gulzar

25. The tune of which S.D. composition did R.D. use for the opening bars for Kuch na kaho, a song from his last acclaimed film 1942, A Love Story?

Sunri pawan, pawan purwaiyan - Anuraag
Aan milo aan milo shyam sanware - Devdas
Wahan kaun hai tera - Guide

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