Q 01/05

By what nickname is the Telugu film industry commonly known?

A) Tollywood

B) Kollywood

C) Sandalwood

D) Mollywood

Answer · why

A) Tollywood

Kollywood is Tamil cinema, Sandalwood is Kannada and Mollywood is Malayalam; the T comes from Telugu.

Q 02/05

In which city's Film Nagar district is the Telugu film industry based today?

A) Chennai

B) Bengaluru

C) Hyderabad

D) Visakhapatnam

Answer · why

C) Hyderabad

The industry started in Madras and only finished its move to the new base in the 1990s.

Q 03/05

Who is regarded as the 'Father of Telugu cinema'?

A) Hanumappa Muniappa Reddy

B) Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu

C) Chittajallu Pullayya

D) Gudavalli Ramabrahmam

Answer · why

B) Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu

A Madras photographer, he built South India's first permanent cinema hall, the Gaiety Theatre, around 1912.

Q 04/05

Which 1921 silent film is generally considered the first Telugu feature?

A) Sati Savitri

B) Bhakta Prahlada

C) Prema Vijayam

D) Bhishma Pratigna

Answer · why

D) Bhishma Pratigna

Director R. S. Prakash also played the title role of Bhishma; his father produced it.

Q 05/05

15 September is marked as Telugu Film Day because which talkie was completed that day in 1931?

A) Bhakta Prahlada

B) Sati Savitri

C) Mala Pilla

D) Prema Vijayam

Answer · why

A) Bhakta Prahlada

It was shot in about three weeks at Imperial Studios in Bombay by Ardeshir Irani, who had just made India's first sound film, Alam Ara.