Q 01/05

Raj Kapoor is often called the Indian version of which Hollywood star?

A) Fred Astaire

B) Charlie Chaplin

C) Cary Grant

D) Buster Keaton

Answer · why

B) Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp gave Kapoor his best-known persona: a shabby, cheerful vagabond whose honesty in a crooked world won him audiences far ...

Q 02/05

In which city was Raj Kapoor born in 1924?

A) Bombay

B) Calcutta

C) Peshawar

D) Lahore

Answer · why

C) Peshawar

Peshawar, now in Pakistan, was only his first home: his father's stage career kept the family on the move, and Raj went to school in three different c...

Q 03/05

Which fellow superstar grew up in the same neighbourhood as Raj Kapoor and remained his lifelong friend?

A) Dev Anand

B) Ashok Kumar

C) Dilip Kumar

D) Balraj Sahni

Answer · why

C) Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar was born two years earlier in the same old quarter; the boyhood friends became the great rival stars of 1950s Hindi cinema and shared the ...

Q 04/05

Which two younger brothers of Raj Kapoor also became major film actors?

A) Randhir and Rajiv

B) Anil and Boney

C) Trilok and Vijay

D) Shammi and Shashi

Answer · why

D) Shammi and Shashi

Shammi and Shashi followed him by different roads: Shashi began as a child, playing the boyhood version of Raj's own characters in two of his early fi...

Q 05/05

Raj Kapoor's first leading role, in 1947's Neel Kamal, paired him with which future superstar actress?

A) Meena Kumari

B) Madhubala

C) Nutan

D) Suraiya

Answer · why

B) Madhubala

Madhubala was just 14 and it was her first adult lead too; the film did little business, yet within a few years both were among the biggest stars in I...