Do me a favour, maa.

What is common to both these films?

Not really an exhaustive list, but I have not find many other films that have done this.

But then these films have done pretty much the same thing at ‘the other end‘…

Cracked by Mrinalini, NitishK, Champakali & kcgadiyar.

Answer: Paa opens with Jaya Bachchan reading out the opening credits, similar to the opening credits being spoken in Farenheit 451. The 4 films below did the same, except in the closing credits.

From Utah.

Which famous tribute album?

Went uncracked.

Answer: Dus – A Tribute to Mukul Anand. Mukul Anand left the film Dus unfinished when he passed away in 1997. The film was never completed, and only the music album was released with songs like Hindustani by Shankar Mahadevan.

Acclaim.

What did both of them win National Awards for?

Cracked by NitishK, Mrinalini, VarunG, Nishanth & Rajeev.

Answer: Shyamali and Tarun,along with another child artiste – Shruti, won the National Award for Best Child Artists for Mani Ratnam’s ‘Anjali’,

I have just met you, and… Squirrel!

Connect the two guys shown here, the bird and the drawing which is actually part of the storyboard of a film.

Manish Achuth, Alleycat, Varun Gupta and woenvu were all looking in the right direction.

By any other, would smell as sweet.

I’ll have the usual: Identify , explain and connect.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Champakali, Ankit Sethi & Nitish Khadiya!

Answer: Laila aur Majnu. 1. George Harrison and Patti Boyd – Clapton wrote the song Layla for Patti. 2.  aaja nachle – the dance drama in the movie is laila majnu 3.  Laila Majnu – the movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta Kaur 4. A painting depicting Laila and Majnu

Havn’t we heard that before?

Connect and explain.

Cracked by Ankit Sethi, Nitish Khadiya, Chamapakali & Comfortably and Technically dumb

Answer:   “Revenge is a dish best served cold” .Quoting CTD’s answer: it’s supposed to be taken from Dangerous Liaisons (wrongly attributed), the novel of which Cruel Intentions is an Adaptation. It appeared in Wrath of Khan as a Klingon proverb which was later used in Kill Bill as well

Identify and connect.

Answered by: Sohan, Ankit Sethi, Champakali-and-Anku, Nitish Khadiya, Manish Achuth, vsk, Roshan Shekhar,
Answer: Peter Finch – Network. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight. Posthumous Academy Award winners in acting.

Ah, the French types.

Based on his experiences while making the 1st film, he made the second. Identify all. <the guy in the 3rd visual is based on himself>

Went unanswered.. it hurts to know noone indentified two of the ‘finest’ French films of recent years

Update: Was answered by Comfortably and Technically Dumb, unfortunately his comment was flagged as spam by Akismet. Apologies.

Answer : Jean-Claude Brisseau, who directed the erotic classic – Choses Secretes. During the pre-production of the film, he asked some of the actresses to perform sexual activities before him. He was sued and penalised for sexual harrassment by 3 of these actresses. Based on this experience, he went onto to make the other great French film – The Exterminating Angels, about a director who wishes to make a movie on eroticism and asks 3 actresses to perform sexual acts before him.

Pardon my French

Identify and Connect.

Attempted & cracked only by Sohan. Kudos!!

Answer:  The song – “I like to move it” . Originally by Reel 2 Real (Erick Morillo), covered by Sacha Cohen (Madagascar) and will.i.am (Madagascar 2)

Home sweet home, for some.

Simple one, I think.

Connect the guy standing with the Bachchan family to this video

Cracked by everyone!!

Answer: Radhu Dixit & the film on Shishunala Sharif. Some of Dixit’s songs like Gudugudiya Sedi Nodo, & Soruthihudu Maneya Maaligi were written by the poet Sharif.