Re: Answers to Monsoon songs quiz

[Guest guest]

As promised here are the answers. The only people who attempted this quiz were

Ameet and Kishore. And between the two of them they got most of the real filmi

questions correct. Congratulations! Hopefully, the others will attempt the

questions next time.

1. One of the classic memories of a couple walking in a rain drenched evening

under an umbrella is the Raj Kapoor- Nargis hit from Shri 420 'Pyar hua iqrar

hua' . During the picturization of this Shankar-Jaikishen masterpiece, three

children wearing raincoats walk past. Who were these kids?

Raj Kapoor's children: Randhir, Ritu and Reema

2. An Indian movie - subtitled ' Once upon a time in India' for western

audiences- has a popular rain song penned by Javed Akhtar and composed by AR

Rehman. Which song am I referring to?

The movie was Lagaan, and the song 'Ghanan ghanan'

3. Whenever lyricists evoke visual images of 'saawan', reference to the 'papiha'

is inevitable. Remember the lyrical ' Bole re papihara' from Guddi? Can you name

the singer of this song and its Music director?

Vani Jairam was the singer who is still remembered by this song. Vasant Desai

scored the music.

4. These folk songs are said to have originated in Mirzapur. They are sung

during the rains and are named after the black monsoon clouds. Which format of

folk songs am I referring to?

Kajri. These folk songs literally mean Kajal or kohl. But folklore has it that

they are named after the 'black' monsoon clouds

5.What is common to these rain songs: Phir se aiyo badra bidesi (film: Namkeen),

Badi der se megha barse (Namkeen) and Chhoti si kahaani se (Ijaazat).

They are written by Gulzar, composed by RD Burman and sung by Asha Bhosale- the

terrific threesome.Incidentally Gulzar has written most beautiful rain songs

including Bole re papihara. Why, he seems to enjoy the beauty of the monsoons so

much that he's even named his daughter Meghna!

6. Can you name two evergreen Jagjit Singh melodies which bring to mind the

beauty of baadal and baarish: one which talks about childhood (lyrics by

Sudarshan Faakir) and the other which talks about the parched earth responding

to the rains from his album 'Insight' (lyricist: Nida Fazli).

The first is the universal favorite, 'woh kaagaz ki kashti, woh baarish ka

paani'. The second of course, 'Garaj baras pyaasi dharti par'

7. A recent 'cross over' English film carried a version of the Mohd. Rafi,

Laxmi-Pyare song, " aaj mausam bada beimaan hai " from the old movie Loafer. Which

movie am I talking about?

Monsoon Wedding -directed by Mira Nair

8. In the last movie he composed music for, the legendary Rahul Dev Burman

composed a rain song. The movie was released after his death and critics called

it his best ever work. Which movie? Which song?

1942- a love story. Rimjhim rimjhim

9. Remember Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh stuck in a glasshouse in the rain in

" Betaab " ? What was that popular number and whose was the male voice?

'Baadal yun garajta hai'. Shabbir Kumar

10. A rain song very popular in nursery school annual day functions....' Ghode

jaisi chaal, haathi jaisi dum, o saawan raaja, kahaan se aaye tum'. Who is the

music director of this song where Shiamak Davar made a number of kids dance with

Shahrukh and Madhuri?

Uttam Singh (BTW..where has he disappeared? )

Bonus Question: Don't you just love the smell of the parched earth when the

first showers drench the earth? Believe it or not, there's a word in English for

this " bheeni bheeni khushboo " . Well, simple question....what's that word?

'Petrichor' (pronounced PET-ri-kuhr) is the smell of rain on dry ground.

More specifically, it's the pleasant smell that often accompanies the first rain

after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions. It was named by two

Australian researchers in an article in Nature in 1964, who discovered that the

smell is an oily essence that comes from rocks or soil that are often (but not

always) clay-based. The oil is a complicated set of at least fifty different

compounds, rather like a perfume. It turned out that the oils are given off by

vegetation during dry spells and are adsorbed on to the surface of rocks and

soil particles, to be released into the air again by the next rains. The word

comes from Greek petros, a stone, plus ichor, from the Greek word for the fluid

that flows like blood in the veins of the gods. So the word means something like

" essence of rock " .

Anshu (1989)

[Guest guest]

Thanks Anshu for the answers.

What do Ameet and I get? A cigar or a coconut?

Kishore Shah 1974

[Guest guest]

Both of you win a plate of garam pakore and a cup of chai at my

place on your next trip to Sevagram.

Anshu

On Wed, 31 May 2006 Shah wrote :

>Thanks Anshu for the answers.

>What do Ameet and I get? A cigar or a coconut?

>Kishore Shah 1974

[Guest guest]

I enjoyed the answers Anshu. Petrichur..... Lovely. That smell you get only

in India. I love it. Here we do not get that smell after any rain (we do not

have a first rain as it rains every alternate day)...

With regards

L/M Prasad

(lp1960@...)

Wish a very happy and cheerful day keep smiling

> Re: Answers to Monsoon songs quiz

>

>

>

> As promised here are the answers. The only people who

> attempted this quiz were Ameet and Kishore. And between the

> two of them they got most of the real filmi questions

> correct. Congratulations! Hopefully, the others will attempt

> the questions next time.

>

> 1. One of the classic memories of a couple walking in a rain

> drenched evening under an umbrella is the Raj Kapoor- Nargis

> hit from Shri 420 'Pyar hua iqrar hua' . During the

> picturization of this Shankar-Jaikishen masterpiece, three

> children wearing raincoats walk past. Who were these kids?

> Raj Kapoor's children: Randhir, Ritu and Reema

>

> 2. An Indian movie - subtitled ' Once upon a time in India'

> for western audiences- has a popular rain song penned by

> Javed Akhtar and composed by AR Rehman. Which song am I

> referring to? The movie was Lagaan, and the song 'Ghanan ghanan'

>

> 3. Whenever lyricists evoke visual images of 'saawan',

> reference to the 'papiha' is inevitable. Remember the lyrical

> ' Bole re papihara' from Guddi? Can you name the singer of

> this song and its Music director? Vani Jairam was the singer

> who is still remembered by this song. Vasant Desai scored the music.

>

> 4. These folk songs are said to have originated in Mirzapur.

> They are sung during the rains and are named after the black

> monsoon clouds. Which format of folk songs am I referring to?

> Kajri. These folk songs literally mean Kajal or kohl. But

> folklore has it that they are named after the 'black' monsoon clouds

>

> 5.What is common to these rain songs: Phir se aiyo badra

> bidesi (film: Namkeen), Badi der se megha barse (Namkeen) and

> Chhoti si kahaani se (Ijaazat). They are written by Gulzar,

> composed by RD Burman and sung by Asha Bhosale- the terrific

> threesome.Incidentally Gulzar has written most beautiful rain

> songs including Bole re papihara. Why, he seems to enjoy the

> beauty of the monsoons so much that he's even named his

> daughter Meghna!

>

> 6. Can you name two evergreen Jagjit Singh melodies which

> bring to mind the beauty of baadal and baarish: one which

> talks about childhood (lyrics by Sudarshan Faakir) and the

> other which talks about the parched earth responding to the

> rains from his album 'Insight' (lyricist: Nida Fazli). The

> first is the universal favorite, 'woh kaagaz ki kashti, woh

> baarish ka paani'. The second of course, 'Garaj baras pyaasi

> dharti par'

>

> 7. A recent 'cross over' English film carried a version of

> the Mohd. Rafi, Laxmi-Pyare song, " aaj mausam bada beimaan

> hai " from the old movie Loafer. Which movie am I talking

> about? Monsoon Wedding -directed by Mira Nair

>

> 8. In the last movie he composed music for, the legendary

> Rahul Dev Burman composed a rain song. The movie was released

> after his death and critics called it his best ever work.

> Which movie? Which song?

> 1942- a love story. Rimjhim rimjhim

>

> 9. Remember Sunny Deol and Amrita Singh stuck in a glasshouse

> in the rain in " Betaab " ? What was that popular number and

> whose was the male voice? 'Baadal yun garajta hai'. Shabbir Kumar

>

> 10. A rain song very popular in nursery school annual day

> functions....' Ghode jaisi chaal, haathi jaisi dum, o saawan

> raaja, kahaan se aaye tum'. Who is the music director of this

> song where Shiamak Davar made a number of kids dance with

> Shahrukh and Madhuri? Uttam Singh (BTW..where has he disappeared? )

>

>

> Bonus Question: Don't you just love the smell of the parched

> earth when the first showers drench the earth? Believe it or

> not, there's a word in English for this " bheeni bheeni

> khushboo " . Well, simple question....what's that word?

>

> 'Petrichor' (pronounced PET-ri-kuhr) is the smell of rain on

> dry ground. More specifically, it's the pleasant smell that

> often accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm,

> dry weather in certain regions. It was named by two

> Australian researchers in an article in Nature in 1964, who

> discovered that the smell is an oily essence that comes from

> rocks or soil that are often (but not always) clay-based. The

> oil is a complicated set of at least fifty different

> compounds, rather like a perfume. It turned out that the oils

> are given off by vegetation during dry spells and are

> adsorbed on to the surface of rocks and soil particles, to be

> released into the air again by the next rains. The word comes

> from Greek petros, a stone, plus ichor, from the Greek word

> for the fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods.

> So the word means something like " essence of rock " .

>

> Anshu (1989)

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

How can you forget the famous Aloo Bonda of Sevagram or the wadas? Please

add them to the menu. I shall synchronize dates with Ameet.

Kishore Shah 1974

Re: Re: Answers to Monsoon songs quiz

> Both of you win a plate of garam pakore and a cup of chai at my

> place on your next trip to Sevagram.

> Anshu

>

>

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 Shah wrote :

>>Thanks Anshu for the answers.

>>What do Ameet and I get? A cigar or a coconut?

>>Kishore Shah 1974

>

>

>

>

> ------------------------------

> Website: www.mgims.org

> ------------------------------

>