Cerebral Shangrila

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Rainbow Quiz - Identify the personality - Week 9

Here is the next weekly "Rainbow" quiz , where I would be giving 7 clues (Hence the name Rainbow) about a personality. Try to discover the person in the least number of clues . You can either leave the answer as a comment / email me . Feedback/ suggestions welcome. Googling is not preferred but then its just for fun and so go ahead if you need to.

This personality needs no introduction to Indians. easy one.

clue # 1 : X was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

clue # 2 : Due to the early death of X's father, X started acting in movies at a young age of 12.

clue # 3 : X composed music for a few marathi movies under the pseudonym "Anandghan" in the 60's.

clue # 4 : X has also produced 4 movies till date. The last movie that X produced had music by X's brother and was released in 1990.

clue # 5 : X hobbies include watching cricket and photography. In fact X is considered an expert photographer with intimate knowledge of cameras, shutter speeds etc.

clue # 6 : Satyajit Ray & X are the only two people to have recieved both the Bharat Ratna & Dada Saheb Phalke award.

clue # 7 : The Madhya pradesh government in the 80's instituted an award in X's name and has been awarding it to luminaries of indian film music.

who is X ?

7 Comments:

  • Lata Mangeshkar.Clue 1 and 7

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:45 PM  

  • oohhoo - first one to answer - Lata Mangeshkar?

    By Blogger Srihari SN, at 2:23 PM  

  • Lata Mangeshkar

    By Blogger Hell's Angel, at 7:06 PM  

  • Paravai Muniayamma

    By Blogger gormandizer, at 7:46 PM  

  • Thanks to my Hindi movie and music knowledge was a cropper till the last clue and coudn't guess

    By Blogger RK, at 2:33 AM  

  • Clue no. 2 on father's demise pushing her to act. She is born in MP is quite an informative one. I always though she is from Goa, because of the Mangeshi connection. Secondly I did not know that she had produced films. Photography yes it is a well known fact
    KM

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:37 PM  

  • Everyone - Yeah it is Lata. of course the little known facts are about her music direction and production.

    KM - The last movie that she produced was Lekin that had the wonderful song "yaara seeli seeli"

    By Blogger Cogito, at 10:11 PM  

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