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B. Answer these questions.

1. What attracted Dhundiraj Govind Phalke towards filmmaking?

2. How did Saraswati contribute to her husband’s success?

3. Why did Dadasaheb Phalke make a short film? How did he make the short film?
4. List the different challenges that Dadasaheb Phalke faced during his filmmaking

journey. How did he overcome them?

5. Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra was not successful in the beginning. How did
he ensure that it became successful?

Reference to the context

Read the lines from the story and answer the questions.

‘You! You will handle the camera. I’ll teach you. And we’ll advertise in the newspapers for actors. It’s
decided then.’

a. Which film was the speaker about to begin?

i. The Life of Christ ii. Raja Harishchandra
iii. Growth of a Pea Plant iv. Kaliya Mardan

b. Whom did the speaker want to handle the camera?
i. his wife ii. his cook

iii. his cousin iv. his friend

c. Do you think the speaker had great faith in the person being spoken to? Why or why not?

d. Why was it difficult to get actors for the film?

Time to think and answer

1. Infer one benefit and one drawback of gifting prizes to the ticket buyers by Dadasaheb
Phalke, in comparison to other solutions, such as marketing and verbal promotion. (Answer
in about 40 words.)

2. Dadasaheb Phalke broke a lot of unrealistic societal norms in his life. Can you identify
and list them properly? Do you think it was easy for him to do so? Give reasons for
your answer. life skill analytical thinking

3. Do you think films are a medium of our creative expression? Give reasons for your answer.
life skill critical thinking

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