101 Kollywood trivias... - Page 5

81. Maaveran, Billa, and Panakkaran have a common thread of being Rajni's movies.....
- Remake of Amitabh Bachan's hits Mard, Don and Laawaris respectively.

82. Sharkh Khan's favourite actresses Juhi Chawla and Deepika Padukone have one thing common in their career. What was it?
- Both debuted in Kannada and moved to Bollywood. Juhi - "Premaloka" (A Tamil/Kannada Bilingual) and Deepika - "Aishwarya" (A rehash of Ghajini and Manmudhudu (Tel.))

83. Bollywood star Juhi Chawla had done two straight Tamil movies, what are they?
- Paruvaragam, Nattukku Or Nallavan.

84. The visual classic 'Chandralekha' song from Thiruda Thiruda was actually shot in .....
- Govt. Museum located in Pantheon Road, Egmore. Yes it is very much in Chennai.

85. First Tamil movie to be shot in Sync sound where the actors need not dub later is .....
- Kamal Hassan's "Hey Ram"

86. Illayaraja had actually worked as a Guest Composer in a Hindi film. Can somebody name it?
- Rajkumar Santhoshi's "Lajja"

87. Thalavattam, Kyonki.. and Manasellam Mathappo are linked by _______
- Indianised version of a 'One flew over Cuckoo's nest'

88. Once top Hindi actress Amisha Patel had actually done a Tamil movie in her heydays, but she was not shown even in the promos. Also the movie was a super flop, so nobody knows that she had acted in Tamil.
- Movie is 'Puthiya Geethai' opposite to Vijay.

89. Till Saawariya released, the director Jananathan maintained that his 'Iyarkai' was written out of his imagination. He later accepted that he fact that it was an adaptation of _______________ & a French film _________________.
- Russian short story 'Four Nights' and a French movie 'Four Nights of a Dreamer'

90. Before getting married to Telugu actor Srikanth, Ooha had a dream run in Tamil as ......
- Sivaranjani.

 

91. Some of Illayaraja's compositions that were used in jingles and became famous were
- Jallanta Jallanta (Lyril Soap), Naguva Nayana (Idea Signature Tune), Devanin Kovil Mudiya Neram (Complan)

92. Kamal Hassan's "Devar Magan" was directed by ________________
Veteran Malayalam Director Bharathan. Not by Kamal himself as lot believe.

93. Kamal Hassan's official directorial debut was not 'Hey Ram'. Then...?
- Chachi 420 (Hindi remake of Avvai Shanmughi)

94. First on screen smooch (french kiss) in Tamil was by ______
Who else other than Kamal Hassan in 'Melnattu Marumakal' to some foreigner.

95. 'Chithiram Pesuthadi' Myshkin was working in _____________ before venturing into movies.
- Salesman in Landmark so that he can access all good books on movies.

96. Maniratnam approached this top heroine those days to do a powerful character role in his Tamil debut. But the actress refused point blank. He determined not to work with her but destiny had other plans, now she is assisting now in all his movies. She is _____
- Suhasini Maniratnam, his wife. That role was done by Radhika later in the movie Pagal Nilavu.

97. Sneha and Meera Jasmine (so called rivals) have done a same role in different languages and walked away with accolades. What was the movie / Role?
- Janani & Sathya. Yes, Meera did Sneha's roles in 'Ammayi Baghundi', telugu version of 'Parthiban Kanavu'. Sneha scored better than Meera. Even the screen names were retained as Janani and Satya.

98. The link between old and new 'Naan Avan Illai' besides 'Radha Kadhal varadha' song is ___________
- Actress Lakshmi. Sneha did Lakshmi's role in new version whereas Lakshmi donned the judge's role.

99. There is a peculiarity about the songs of 'Chinna Thambi'. What is it?
- The tunes are supposed to have been composed by Illayaraja in flat 30 minutes time.

100. Devyani had five releases in a day for a Pongal and 4 became hits consolidating her position in Kollywood. A record performance for an actress.
- Marumalarchi, Muvendhar, Udhavikku Varalama.. Please somebody complete the list.

101. After Malayalam, singer Chitra had sung the maximum in ....
- Telugu, then only Tamil comes.