Film and Visual Communication Questions and Answers

Q: Who was appointed as the chairperson of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) on 9th June 2015 ?

The chairperson appointed on 9 June 2015 was Gajendra Chauhan.Chauhan, a television actor best known for playing Yudhishthira in the serial Mahabharat, was named chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, in June 2015. The appointment set off a long students' strike at the institute, who argued that he lacked the standing for the post.Sharmila Tagore had headed the Central Board of Film Certification, not FTII in 2015. Jawhar Sircar was then the chief executive of Prasar Bharati, and Alka Sirohi was a senior civil servant; neither was made FTII chairperson in 2015.

Q: What is the name of the film production company of Ram Gopal Verma ?

The key names RGV film factory.Ram Gopal Varma's production house is generally called The Factory, and a company release describes the firm floated by him as RGV Film Factory Limited, which is the full name option C gives. The film database TheTVDB also lists RGV Film Factory as a production company credit on Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. Option A, 'Factory', is the short form of the same banner, so it is a weaker answer than the fuller name the key chooses.Phantom is the production company of Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and others (Phantom Films), and Arihant is not a banner associated with Varma. I could confirm that both 'The Factory' and 'RGV Film Factory' are names used for his company, but not which spelling the University took as the official one, so this explanation follows the key's choice of the full name.

Q: Who is the director of the film 'Bahubali' ?

The director of Baahubali is S.S. Rajamouli.S. S. Rajamouli directed Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), the Telugu epic films starring Prabhas that became some of the highest-grossing Indian films. His other films include Magadheera, Eega and RRR.Srikanth Addala and Anish Kuruvilla are other Telugu film directors, and Kovelamudi Bapayya was a director of an earlier generation. None of them directed Baahubali.

Q: The 2016 Best Actor Oscar went to Leonardo Dicaprio for which film ?

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for The Revenant.At the 88th Academy Awards in February 2016, DiCaprio won Best Actor for playing the frontiersman Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant (2015). It was his first Oscar after several earlier nominations.Titanic (1997) brought him no nomination, and Inception (2010) none for acting. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) earned him a nomination, but he lost that year (2014) to Matthew McConaughey.

Q: The National Film Award 2016 for best actress was bagged by Kangana Ranaut for her role in which film ?

The award was for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.At the 63rd National Film Awards, announced in 2016, Kangana Ranaut won Best Actress for her double role as Tanuja and Kusum in Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015). It was her second Best Actress award in a row, after Queen.Queen won her the Best Actress award at the 62nd awards, announced in 2015. Fashion (2008) won her the Best Supporting Actress award, and Krrish 3 (2013) brought her no National Award.

Q: A technique where a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense, space, time and information is called what ?

The technique is montage.A montage sequence joins a series of short shots to compress space, time and information, for example showing months of training or a long journey in a minute of screen time. The term also covers the Soviet theory of editing, in which meaning comes from the collision of shots.The Kuleshov effect is the finding that viewers read different emotions into the same face depending on the shot placed next to it. Parallel editing (cross-cutting) alternates between actions happening in different places at once. A McGuffin, Hitchcock's term, is a plot device that drives the story; it is not an editing technique.

Q: Name the series with which the Indian actors Priyanka Chopra has made her debut in American TV ?

Priyanka Chopra's American TV debut was Quantico.In 2015 she took the lead role of Alex Parrish, an FBI recruit, in the ABC thriller series Quantico, becoming the first South Asian to headline an American network drama. She won a People's Choice Award for the role.Castle, Friends and The Big Bang Theory are American series too, but she did not star in any of them.

Q: Movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, "Metropolis" and "Psycho" are examples of films influenced by which movement ?

The movement is Expressionism.The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) and Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) are landmarks of German Expressionist cinema, with distorted sets, stark contrasts of light and shadow and stylised acting that express inner states of fear and madness. Hitchcock worked in German studios in the 1920s, and the shadows, looming staircases and psychological horror of Psycho (1960) show that influence.Italian neo-realism (Bicycle Thieves) used real locations and non-actors, the opposite of studio stylisation. Surrealism (Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou) worked with dream logic rather than this look, and social realism is a documentary-like portrayal of working-class life.

Q: Which one of the following films was co-produced and directed by Jabbar Patel and dealt with, among other things, lesbianism ?

The film is Umbartha (1982).Jabbar Patel directed this Marathi film, made in Hindi as Subah, with Smita Patil as a woman who leaves home to run a women's reformatory. Among the institution's problems it shows a relationship between two inmates, one of the earliest portrayals of lesbianism in Indian cinema, alongside its main themes of a woman's career and her family's resistance.Uttarayan (2005) is a Marathi film directed by Bipin Nadkarni about love late in life, not a Jabbar Patel film. Vidushak and Maza Ghar are not the Jabbar Patel film on this theme; his best-known films besides Umbartha are Samna, Jait Re Jait and Sinhasan.

Q: Who received the first prestigious "Dada Saheb Phalke Award" for Indian Cinema ?

The first Dadasaheb Phalke Award went to Devika Rani.The award, India's highest honour in cinema, was instituted by the Government of India in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra (1913). Devika Rani, star of Bombay Talkies films such as Achhut Kanya (1936) and often called the first lady of Indian cinema, was the first recipient.The other three received it later. The composer and singer Pankaj Mullick was honoured in 1972, the silent-era actress Sulochana (Ruby Myers) in 1973, and the music director Naushad in 1981.

Who was appointed as the chairperson of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) on 9th June 2015 ?

A.Gajendra Chauhan
B.Sharmila Tagore
C.Alka Sirohi
D.Jawhar Sircar

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The chairperson appointed on 9 June 2015 was Gajendra Chauhan.

Chauhan, a television actor best known for playing Yudhishthira in the serial Mahabharat, was named chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, in June 2015. The appointment set off a long students' strike at the institute, who argued that he lacked the standing for the post.

Sharmila Tagore had headed the Central Board of Film Certification, not FTII in 2015. Jawhar Sircar was then the chief executive of Prasar Bharati, and Alka Sirohi was a senior civil servant; neither was made FTII chairperson in 2015.

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What is the name of the film production company of Ram Gopal Verma ?

A.Factory
B.Phantom
C.RGV film factory
D.Arihant

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The key names RGV film factory.

Ram Gopal Varma's production house is generally called The Factory, and a company release describes the firm floated by him as RGV Film Factory Limited, which is the full name option C gives. The film database TheTVDB also lists RGV Film Factory as a production company credit on Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. Option A, 'Factory', is the short form of the same banner, so it is a weaker answer than the fuller name the key chooses.

Phantom is the production company of Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and others (Phantom Films), and Arihant is not a banner associated with Varma. I could confirm that both 'The Factory' and 'RGV Film Factory' are names used for his company, but not which spelling the University took as the official one, so this explanation follows the key's choice of the full name.

Discuss in Forum

Who is the director of the film 'Bahubali' ?

A.S.S. Rajamouli
B.Srikanta Addala
C.Anish Kuruvilla
D.Kovelamudi Bapayya

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The director of Baahubali is S.S. Rajamouli.

S. S. Rajamouli directed Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), the Telugu epic films starring Prabhas that became some of the highest-grossing Indian films. His other films include Magadheera, Eega and RRR.

Srikanth Addala and Anish Kuruvilla are other Telugu film directors, and Kovelamudi Bapayya was a director of an earlier generation. None of them directed Baahubali.

Discuss in Forum

The 2016 Best Actor Oscar went to Leonardo Dicaprio for which film ?

A.Titanic
B.The Revenant
C.The Wolf
D.Inception

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for The Revenant.

At the 88th Academy Awards in February 2016, DiCaprio won Best Actor for playing the frontiersman Hugh Glass in Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant (2015). It was his first Oscar after several earlier nominations.

Titanic (1997) brought him no nomination, and Inception (2010) none for acting. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) earned him a nomination, but he lost that year (2014) to Matthew McConaughey.

Discuss in Forum

The National Film Award 2016 for best actress was bagged by Kangana Ranaut for her role in which film ?

A.Fashion
B.Tanu Weds Manu Returns
C.Queen
D.Krrish 3

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The award was for Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

At the 63rd National Film Awards, announced in 2016, Kangana Ranaut won Best Actress for her double role as Tanuja and Kusum in Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2015). It was her second Best Actress award in a row, after Queen.

Queen won her the Best Actress award at the 62nd awards, announced in 2015. Fashion (2008) won her the Best Supporting Actress award, and Krrish 3 (2013) brought her no National Award.

Discuss in Forum

A technique where a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense, space, time and information is called what ?

A.Kuleshov effect
B.Parallel edit
C.Montage
D.McGuffin effect

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The technique is montage.

A montage sequence joins a series of short shots to compress space, time and information, for example showing months of training or a long journey in a minute of screen time. The term also covers the Soviet theory of editing, in which meaning comes from the collision of shots.

The Kuleshov effect is the finding that viewers read different emotions into the same face depending on the shot placed next to it. Parallel editing (cross-cutting) alternates between actions happening in different places at once. A McGuffin, Hitchcock's term, is a plot device that drives the story; it is not an editing technique.

Discuss in Forum

Name the series with which the Indian actors Priyanka Chopra has made her debut in American TV ?

A.Quantico
B.Castle
C.Friends
D.Big Bang Theory

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

Priyanka Chopra's American TV debut was Quantico.

In 2015 she took the lead role of Alex Parrish, an FBI recruit, in the ABC thriller series Quantico, becoming the first South Asian to headline an American network drama. She won a People's Choice Award for the role.

Castle, Friends and The Big Bang Theory are American series too, but she did not star in any of them.

Discuss in Forum

Movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, "Metropolis" and "Psycho" are examples of films influenced by which movement ?

A.Social realism
B.Neo-realism
C.Surrealism
D.Expressionism

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The movement is Expressionism.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) and Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) are landmarks of German Expressionist cinema, with distorted sets, stark contrasts of light and shadow and stylised acting that express inner states of fear and madness. Hitchcock worked in German studios in the 1920s, and the shadows, looming staircases and psychological horror of Psycho (1960) show that influence.

Italian neo-realism (Bicycle Thieves) used real locations and non-actors, the opposite of studio stylisation. Surrealism (Bunuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou) worked with dream logic rather than this look, and social realism is a documentary-like portrayal of working-class life.

Discuss in Forum

Which one of the following films was co-produced and directed by Jabbar Patel and dealt with, among other things, lesbianism ?

A.Uttarayan
B.Umbartha
C.Vidushak
D.Maza Ghar

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The film is Umbartha (1982).

Jabbar Patel directed this Marathi film, made in Hindi as Subah, with Smita Patil as a woman who leaves home to run a women's reformatory. Among the institution's problems it shows a relationship between two inmates, one of the earliest portrayals of lesbianism in Indian cinema, alongside its main themes of a woman's career and her family's resistance.

Uttarayan (2005) is a Marathi film directed by Bipin Nadkarni about love late in life, not a Jabbar Patel film. Vidushak and Maza Ghar are not the Jabbar Patel film on this theme; his best-known films besides Umbartha are Samna, Jait Re Jait and Sinhasan.

Discuss in Forum

10.

Who received the first prestigious "Dada Saheb Phalke Award" for Indian Cinema ?

A.Pankaj Mullick
B.Sulochana
C.Naushad
D.Devika Rani

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The first Dadasaheb Phalke Award went to Devika Rani.

The award, India's highest honour in cinema, was instituted by the Government of India in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra (1913). Devika Rani, star of Bombay Talkies films such as Achhut Kanya (1936) and often called the first lady of Indian cinema, was the first recipient.

The other three received it later. The composer and singer Pankaj Mullick was honoured in 1972, the silent-era actress Sulochana (Ruby Myers) in 1973, and the music director Naushad in 1981.

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