# Episode 110 - Bollywood, JCPenney & House, M.D.

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 14 Jul 2025, 1 h 00 min.

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Do you know a whole bunch of trivia related to Bollywood, including which director wanted to make 'Ek' an expensive, ambitious international project and which was the first film to kickstart the film title abbreviation trend (think: DDLJ, ZNMD, K3G)? Do you know what was the name of the American working wear clothing line launched by JCPenney, a name that was later used by another huge American company for their flagship product? Do you know what is the title of Season 5 Episode 10 of House M. D. (I swear the trivia is actually interesting)? Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Rex has been branded the greenest king in history due to
[0:04] his monumentary efforts. Huge swathes of cultivated land
[0:08] returned to forest. He helped remove nearly 700
[0:12] million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, and the nature of
[0:15] the activities meant that large areas of cultivated land grew
[0:19] thick once again with trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from
[0:22] the atmosphere. Although his methods may be
[0:25] difficult for environmentalists to accept, ecologists believe it
[0:29] may be the first ever case of successful man made global
[0:33] cooling. Identify this King X That was
[0:38] our audience question for episode 110 and I'll answer this
[0:43] question at the end of today's episode.
[0:47] Cue the intro. Welcome to our You Quizzing me.
[0:51] I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap.
[0:55] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show.
[0:57] Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture
[1:02] and so much more. Let's get quizzing and we're
[1:07] back. So episode #110 I must ask our
[1:11] audiences forgiveness for being away for these past few
[1:15] episodes. But I'm told that they're both.
[1:18] Bertie and Hari Krishna both filled my absence such that I'm
[1:25] actually feeling a little insecure on my role in this
[1:27] podcast now. Aditya, how have you been?
[1:30] I missed you. I missed you.
[1:31] I I can't complain though. Our guest quiz masters were
[1:34] amazing. Both HK and Buddy came up with
[1:38] some phenomenal trivia. But yeah, I missed hearing this
[1:42] familiar voice, and I've had people reach out to me tell me
[1:45] that they miss you as well. So it's not just me.
[1:47] And I'm glad you're back. Wow, great.
[1:50] Yes, So that that kind of soothes my insecurities just a
[1:53] tiny bit. Before you get too secure
[1:56] though, I must remind you Bertie did ask a question in episode
[2:00] 108. Oh God, I will play the clip
[2:04] from that episode right now and you have to answer the question
[2:07] that Bertie had posed to you a couple of weeks ago.
[2:11] What interesting fact connects only these two?
[2:13] Hyper exhaustive list of the Mother, the song from the Wall
[2:17] and Two Suns and the sunset from the Final cut.
[2:20] So Vineet, what do you think is the connect between these two
[2:25] songs? Just these two songs I can
[2:30] remember, mother of the top of my head.
[2:32] I heard two Suns and the sunset. Sometime in the past, but.
[2:36] It's not one of those songs that I can playback in my head right
[2:39] now, so I can't off the top of my head tell you exactly what's
[2:42] common to only these two songs. Do you have any clues?
[2:48] Did Bertie leave any clues that would point me in the right
[2:51] direction? See, this is the problem with
[2:53] dealing with very smart people. They don't realize that the rest
[2:56] of humanity is not as smart. So Bertie assumed I would be
[3:01] able to give you clues, I guess because he didn't give me any
[3:03] clues. OK, but you know what?
[3:05] I did some research, so I do have some clues.
[3:09] OK, so you know the members of Pink Floyd?
[3:13] OK, not as well as Bertie, but Roger Waters comes to mind.
[3:18] Roger Waters on bass guitar and vocals.
[3:21] On guitar and lead vocals is Sid Barrett Mason and drums,
[3:27] keyboards was Richard Wright. So these are the four people who
[3:29] found the band in 1965. Do you know how many albums has
[3:35] each member done? Would be a little difficult for
[3:38] me today because even if I am a music fan, I'm not Bertie
[3:42] Ashley. OK, so Sid Barrett left the
[3:47] group pretty early on, like within three years he left it
[3:50] because of some mental health issues and David Gilmour joined
[3:54] in. Yes.
[3:55] Today the members are Nick Mason and David Gilmour, Sid Barrett,
[3:59] Roger Waters and Richard Wright to a previous members, which
[4:02] means that not every member has been part of each and every
[4:07] album by Pink Freud except one. So there has been one member who
[4:11] has been consistently part of every single album.
[4:16] OK. Current members are Nick Mason
[4:18] and David Gilmour, and David Gilmour joined late, so it's.
[4:21] OK, so it's Mason. OK, fine.
[4:23] Fine, Nick Mason. All right.
[4:24] OK. So that's that's still the
[4:26] preview to the answer. We haven't reached the answer
[4:28] yet. So wow, OK.
[4:32] So Nick Mason has been on every single album that Pink Floyd has
[4:36] ever made. What is the one thing that
[4:40] separates these two songs? So I'm guessing these are two
[4:45] songs in which Nick Mason did not play the drums.
[4:48] Right. OK, Well I'll claim that I
[4:51] pretty much LED you to the answer over here, no?
[4:53] You did. You did.
[4:54] I would not have known this. Yeah, yeah, I know.
[4:58] And again, no credit taken away from Bertie because it's all
[5:01] him. It's that man is genius and is a
[5:04] music aficionado of the highest order.
[5:07] He's a bigger Pink Floyd fan than me.
[5:09] Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands ever, but they're
[5:11] not my go to band for listening. That would be The Rolling
[5:15] Stones, Yeah, soundtrack of the 70's, the 60s.
[5:22] How do I still mess it up? Alright, so you're right.
[5:27] Nick Mason has been part of every single album by Pink Floyd
[5:31] and is the only member who has been part of every single album
[5:34] by Pink Floyd except these two songs where he didn't perform.
[5:38] And according to Bertie, the reason that he didn't do it was
[5:40] because it was too technical for him.
[5:43] So he had a Ringo moment. Not even the best drummer in
[5:47] Beatles? Yes.
[5:47] Drummer in The Beatles, See. No, but I can guarantee you one
[5:50] thing, Bertie is listening to this and going what?
[5:55] What the better clues you could give?
[5:58] Nah, what better clues you should give?
[6:02] I think you understand when you give me the right kind of clues
[6:04] because in one of the episodes that I did with the guests, HK
[6:07] literally had to give me letters in the answer.
[6:11] The answer is 3 letters. I'll give you the 1st letter.
[6:14] If the last letter it was embarrassing, it it got what?
[6:18] Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, anybody who's heard the
[6:19] episode is Privy to the information that I made a fool
[6:24] of myself in one of the questions.
[6:26] But hey, that's part of the IU accusing me legacy.
[6:29] And actually, that's a very interesting point because a
[6:30] couple of our lovely listeners have reached out and they've
[6:33] said some very sweet things. Since you're back after a while,
[6:36] I wanted to ask a few of these guest questions.
[6:38] So today's episode, I'm going to be asking that.
[6:39] Oh. Great.
[6:40] I also want to mention this because somebody on Reddit asked
[6:44] me to talk about how we started this podcast, and I would love
[6:47] to share that story. But let's keep that story for
[6:50] our first video episode, which we've been promising our
[6:53] listeners for a while. Yes, yes, baby steps.
[6:57] Soon, very soon. And whenever we do the first
[6:59] video episode, I promise you that I will do a quick recount
[7:02] of how are you using me? Started.
[7:04] OK, a lot of catching up done, but let's get to the episode
[7:07] proper. Yes.
[7:09] So I am also going to do that, but I think it's better that I'm
[7:14] going to fill a void which has been pointed out by a listener
[7:19] who reached out to me personally a few weeks ago.
[7:21] And the void that they pointed out is that despite our
[7:26] questions being quite India oriented most of the time, we
[7:31] hardly ever cover Bollywood. My question is, this week will
[7:36] be heavily tilted towards Bollywood.
[7:39] They didn't want to be mentioned on the show, so I'm not going to
[7:41] mention their name. But you know who you are.
[7:44] Let me start off, it's a bit of an alphabet soup.
[7:47] So Aditya, please get ready. This movie A was supposed to be
[7:52] X's debut film OK directed by JP Dutta, it was the tale of an
[7:58] emperor's relationship with his son.
[8:01] Apparently the rights were with Kamal Amrohi Once Upon a time
[8:05] and he had wanted to make the film with Y after seeing Y in Z
[8:11] which was a career defining role.
[8:13] It did not happen then and the movie never got made.
[8:18] And the movie A also never got made.
[8:20] The title of the movie A, when translated to English, is also
[8:25] the name of a fantastic non fiction book on the same subject
[8:29] by B, India's preeminent British historian.
[8:34] Just for our audience, I'm going to replace this again.
[8:36] So there's a story about an emperor and his son.
[8:39] Kamal Amrohi had the rights way back when and he wanted to make
[8:44] that movie with the actor. Why after watching Y in the
[8:48] movie Z which was one of his career defining roles years
[8:53] later? This.
[8:55] Movie, the same story under the title A, was supposed to be X's
[9:00] debut film and directed by JP Dutta.
[9:03] But neither film happened. Neither did Kamal and Rosy's
[9:06] film happened. Neither did JP Dutta's film.
[9:08] The title of the movie A, which is the movie in question when
[9:12] translated to English, is the name of a fantastic non fiction
[9:17] book on the same subject by B, who's India's preeminent British
[9:22] historian. See if you can work this out
[9:25] because I just went way indulgent on this question.
[9:30] OK, so I'm going to start with the most obvious answer here,
[9:35] which is the preeminent British historian.
[9:37] OK, I'm going to say, is it William Dalrymple?
[9:40] Very good. It is William Dalrymple.
[9:42] OK, William Dalrymple's book is the English translation for the
[9:47] movie that was never made the. Name, yes.
[9:49] So B is Dalrymple, A is the name of the movie, and if you
[9:53] translate the name of the movie into English, it's also the
[9:56] title of a book. A non fiction book on the same
[9:59] subject by. Dalrymple.
[10:02] OK, William Dalrymple has written some books about the
[10:06] Mughals I'm sure. And because you're talking about
[10:10] father and son, yes I'm going to assume it as one of the first
[10:14] few Mughal emperors. And since the movie was never
[10:17] made, I'm going to say it isn't a Mughali Azam type of story.
[10:21] So I'm going to take another father son pair.
[10:26] Let me just give you a clue so that you don't go wandering off
[10:29] into the wilderness, OK? The son is not a famous person.
[10:33] Oh. The father is the famous.
[10:35] One OK. So the father is the Emperor.
[10:38] OK, then I would say Aurangzeb is the father.
[10:42] No. Oh, OK, so somebody else whose
[10:49] father was famous, but we're talking in the Mughal lineage.
[10:52] Yes, you've gotten that right. It's the Mughal lineage, so if
[10:55] you're going to work backwards, off the top of my head, remember
[10:57] just two Dalrymple books which deal primarily with the books.
[11:02] So I think I remember the name is the last Mughal or something
[11:05] right? OK, yes.
[11:07] If that is book then I'm going to say Bhadur Shah Zafar 2 is
[11:11] the father. Yes.
[11:13] OK. So what would be the name of the
[11:15] movie? Akhri Mughal.
[11:18] Yes, very good. So the name of the movie is
[11:20] Akhri Mughal. Originally the rights for the
[11:22] movie and the story were with Kamal Amroghi in way back when
[11:26] he wanted to make that movie with Y.
[11:29] After watching Y's performance in this movie Z which was a
[11:33] career defining role. Years later, JP Dutta wanted to
[11:37] use this movie to be X's debut film.
[11:41] Now you have to also realise that I'm the person asking this
[11:45] question. There'll be a specific reason
[11:47] why I chose this movie and why I'm asking about specifically
[11:51] this X and this way. Oh OK so because I know JP Dutta
[11:56] made Refugee which was the debut film for Abhishek Bachchan, I'm
[12:03] gonna guess that maybe he wanted Akhi Mughal to be the debut
[12:07] instead and Kamal Amrohi wanted to cast maybe Amitabh Bachchan
[12:11] in it. Yes, when he saw Amitabh
[12:15] Bachchan in a career defining I mean Sholay comes to mind.
[12:20] Yes, but again, you know I'm the one phrasing the question and I
[12:24] given you a veritable alphabet soup, so there must be a reason
[12:27] I've given you this particular alphabet soup.
[12:30] So am I right with Abhishek Bachchan being the potential
[12:34] deputy? Yes.
[12:34] So before Refugee, Afri Mughal was supposed to be JP Dutta's
[12:38] film in which Abhishek Bachchan was supposed to be launched.
[12:41] And way back when, Kamal Amrohi wanted to make Afri Mughal
[12:45] starring Amitabh Bachchan after watching him in a movie Z.
[12:50] Amitabh Bachchan in a movie Z. Yeah, you just told me that HK
[12:56] had to spell out letters to you. I've given you an alphabet soup.
[13:02] Which letter am I asking about? ZZ So A was Akhri Mughal again?
[13:08] A Oh, OK. And Amitabh Bachchan was
[13:12] supposed to be cast after Kamal Ambrohi saw him in a movie.
[13:16] Z So. Zanjeer.
[13:20] Very good. Yes, it's Zanjeer.
[13:24] It's a very, very indulgent question, so I must ask
[13:26] forgiveness. I found this as a synchronicity
[13:29] across time. So Kamala Rohi has his script in
[13:32] hand, wants to make the movie, sees Amitabh Bachchan and
[13:35] Sanjeev and wants to make him a Mughal emperor.
[13:38] I'm guessing it must be the police station sequence where he
[13:40] must be like, oh, this guy can definitely play an emperor.
[13:43] That's a dialogue, right? I'll take.
[13:48] A word for it. You're the actor here.
[13:50] You're the one who's supposed to do the dramatic reading.
[13:52] I should know this. At the end of this episode,
[13:55] after the closing musical queue, you will be treated to a
[14:00] dramatic reading of the police station dialogue scene from
[14:04] Zanjeer by Aditya. Yeah, I'm putting him on the
[14:07] spot. Yes, hang on to your shirts.
[14:13] Yeah, I don't know why you'll be taking off your clothes, but if
[14:16] you are, do not take them off before the end of this episode
[14:19] because I'll be doing a dramatic reading of this dialogue,
[14:21] apparently. OK.
[14:23] Speaking of dramatic things, wow, I missed my segues.
[14:28] Speaking of dramatic things, there was an unfortunate
[14:32] incident that happened in February.
[14:35] On February 11th, somebody famous passed away, or it was so
[14:43] told on social media that they had passed away.
[14:47] Except almost 2 weeks later it turned out that it was not true,
[14:50] that it was some sort of facade or fake out death.
[14:55] So it wasn't an actual death. Oh, this is that the social
[15:00] media lady picked her on death for, right?
[15:03] Poonam Pandey. Yeah, she did something like
[15:06] this, right? Poonam Pandey did do this I
[15:08] believe. Poonam Pandey's thing was last
[15:10] year though. I'm talking about 2025.
[15:13] Oh, OK, OK. So this person actually you
[15:17] would know as the first name X, last name Y.
[15:22] OK. But their full name is XK Shauna
[15:28] Rene Y. OK.
[15:31] Yeah, that's their full name, and the X&Y part is how you
[15:34] probably know them better. OK.
[15:36] So my question is, who was this? Who social media said or claimed
[15:43] passed away in early February this year and two weeks later
[15:47] turns out that was a fake out and didn't actually pass away.
[15:51] Keshawna, for some reason, does sound one of those culturally
[15:55] African American names, Am I close?
[15:59] No, not at all. No, no.
[16:02] Oh, so it's you're talking about Poonam, Keshawna Rave Pandey?
[16:05] Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm talking about.
[16:08] No, I'm not. That is not death in question or
[16:11] celebrity in question. OK, so give me a clue then.
[16:15] The stated birth date of this character is.
[16:20] Quote 1000 BC. Wait is this like Kanye or
[16:26] something? I love how you assume Kanye is
[16:30] capable of doing something like this.
[16:32] Which you know what? Ferret ferret Kanye is capable
[16:36] of claiming he was born in 1000 BC and doing a fake out with his
[16:40] death. It is very possible but no not
[16:43] Kanye if you paid attention. I said character so maybe that
[16:46] guides you a little bit more. It's not an actual person.
[16:50] Oh, so it's not an actual person?
[16:52] Yeah, it's a fictional character.
[16:54] Fictional character, I don't know, because none of this seems
[16:57] familiar. It's passed my radar completely.
[16:59] Versus some kind of movie promotion or something like a
[17:04] character dies in a movie and they want to promote that.
[17:07] You know, there's there's this thing with Malayalam web series
[17:10] called Kerala Crime Files. This season 2 of Kerala Crime
[17:14] Files deals with the search for one particular character by the
[17:18] name of Ambuli. So all throughout coaching, you
[17:21] could find missing posters for ACB employee which were put up.
[17:25] And for a second I was like hey, what the hell is going on?
[17:27] So is it something like that where somebody's dead?
[17:30] Not a bad guess in terms of yes, it was for promoting something,
[17:34] but not a web series, not not a film, not ATV show.
[17:39] One last clue before I give you the answer.
[17:41] Not a person. Yeah, you've already told me
[17:43] it's a character, right? Yeah, but not a human mascot is
[17:47] probably the best way to define it.
[17:49] Have you ever seen the movie Barbie?
[17:50] You have, I believe. Yeah.
[17:52] A character in that movie keeps interacting with XY, keeps using
[17:58] this character to learn. Duolingo.
[18:03] Duolingo or the Duo owl is the answer.
[18:07] I was looking for the green the green owl.
[18:11] OK, that's an owl. That OK?
[18:12] Yeah, it is an owl. Now that you tell me.
[18:14] Yeah, it is an owl. OK, I'm confused.
[18:17] Why did social media kill off the Duolingo mascot?
[18:23] It wasn't like random social media, it was Duolingo's Twitter
[18:26] account which claimed that Duo had died.
[18:29] On 11th February. They posted this.
[18:32] Authorities are currently investigating the cause of death
[18:35] and we are cooperating fully. TBH she probably died waiting
[18:38] for you to do your lesson but what do we know.
[18:41] Oh God. Classic Duolingo style, very
[18:44] aggressive. Oh God, that's.
[18:47] Quite dark yeah, yeah. Later they claimed actually is
[18:50] not really dead. It was back.
[18:52] They gave all of this information about name actually
[18:55] being duo Que Shawna Rene Lingo. The duo is his first name, Lingo
[19:00] is his last name. This is just.
[19:02] Weird marketing. Like, I know really people are
[19:04] running out of ideas, but that's just weird marketing.
[19:06] I think they stepped into the whole idea of Duolingo being
[19:09] very, very creepy in the way that it keeps messaging you and
[19:12] it's very passive aggressive sometimes.
[19:14] Yeah, it does. I have tried Duolingo in the
[19:17] past two learned languages spoiler now like it didn't work.
[19:22] I just didn't connect with that particular one.
[19:24] But it just keeps sending you notification after notification
[19:27] saying have you tried to business and have you tried it's
[19:29] time to do this, It's time to do this.
[19:30] It keeps sending you like every single day notification Duolingo
[19:33] keep coming up. That part is true.
[19:35] So they were leaning into that I'm guessing.
[19:38] So here's the thing, any other learning app would probably also
[19:41] notify you saying hey come back and use our app.
[19:43] That is very common for most apps.
[19:45] Yeah, yeah, the way. Duoligo does it actually is very
[19:47] passive aggressive. I've gotten random notification
[19:50] saying I guess you don't care about duo.
[19:52] I guess you have forgotten all about me.
[19:55] Like a toxic girlfriend. Yeah, it is very, very toxic
[19:58] relationship vibes. This is something that I think
[20:01] they. I don't know if they
[20:03] accidentally stepped into it, but they have leaned into it
[20:05] definitely. And I think this whole died
[20:08] because you forgot to do your lessons was very aggressive.
[20:11] That's very dark. Yeah, yeah.
[20:13] That's very dark. And since I said that I'll be
[20:17] using audience questions, this one is an audience question that
[20:19] was sent to me a while back. This is Uday insane.
[20:22] Oh. Nice.
[20:23] Uday Insane had sent me a bunch of questions I'd already asked
[20:25] one from that list. There's another one from the
[20:27] list that I wanted to bring up. Again, thank you there for this
[20:31] question and that passes it back to you, Vineet.
[20:34] Wow, I am speechless. I have no segue whatsoever.
[20:40] So let's just go into this is a very straightforward, very
[20:43] short, very 90s like quiz question ZNMD.
[20:50] Do you know what ZNMD stands for?
[20:52] Zindagina Milegi Dobara. Very good DDLJ.
[20:57] Even. Better KANK.
[21:04] Very good. You're top notch when it comes
[21:07] to Bollywood abbreviations. So all of these are very popular
[21:10] abbreviations of long winded Bollywood movie names.
[21:14] Simple question, which was the first film to have a hugely
[21:17] popular abbreviation? Till then movies were just
[21:20] pronounced as the whole name. It was like Zanjeer not Z.
[21:25] So that's a bad example. Zanjeer not Z, Sholay not S.
[21:32] Yeah, or it's like Amar Akbar Anthony, not a a, A.
[21:36] AAA. We had RRR, so A, A a but which
[21:40] was the first ever film to have a popular abbreviation for.
[21:46] I have a feeling this will be at best 90s or maybe late 80s.
[21:53] I'm. Thinking something like Salman
[21:55] Khan maybe Maine pyar kiya MPK joji the voice sikandar JJWS.
[22:03] OK give me an era. Am I in the right time frame or
[22:06] is it old? You are in the right era.
[22:07] You are very near. You are sniffing around the
[22:10] right movies. OK so I'm assuming it's maybe
[22:13] one of the Khans? Hum upke hakon HAHK.
[22:19] No. OK, that doesn't sound very
[22:21] familiar. Either.
[22:22] No, see that's the thing. I can understand why this was
[22:24] the first popular deviated one, because like DDLJ, this kind of
[22:29] rolls off the tongue. Yeah, I'm also trying to think
[22:31] of one that would roll of the tongue.
[22:33] Because HAHK is a little too much.
[22:36] JJWS also doesn't work. No, I I can't think of one right
[22:41] now. OK, I'll give you a clue.
[22:43] It was a directorial debut. I'm not going to be the director
[22:47] because that will make it too easy.
[22:50] OK, it is a romantic musical film.
[22:53] Like that's a clue. That's not a clue, but OK.
[22:57] Directorial debuts, so not DDLJ. Yes, which would be the most
[23:02] obvious answer. It received 11 nominations at
[23:06] the 34th Filmfare Awards. 34th, No, I can't quite place my
[23:13] finger on what year that would be, but 11 nominations, that's.
[23:17] 11 nominations. I'm going to give you another
[23:20] clue. The lead role technically also
[23:24] had a debut act. Technically.
[23:26] Technically. That's interesting.
[23:28] What does technically mean? Like, it's not wrong to say that
[23:32] the lead role was played by a debut actor, but it's not
[23:34] completely right either, OK? The soundtrack was also hugely
[23:38] popular, and it established the careers of Udit Narayan and Al
[23:42] Kayak. OK.
[23:44] OK, the next clue will be the director's name, Mansoor Khan.
[23:49] I know of Mansoor Khan but not a director that I'll be able to
[23:54] tell you his filmography immediately.
[23:56] But hold on, I have a very strong feeling that this is
[23:59] Aamir or Salman is my feeling right now.
[24:02] You're not wrong. OK, Salman's Debi oh Aamir's
[24:07] debi film qiyamat SE qiyamat QSQT.
[24:11] Yes, it is. Oh.
[24:16] But I don't believe it was Aamir Khan's debut film.
[24:19] I mean technically he had done films as a child actor, but like
[24:23] as a leading man. It is even though his first
[24:26] film. His first film was a movie
[24:28] called Holi. Oh.
[24:29] That was a low budget film. Right, right.
[24:32] Right. Yes, yes, yes.
[24:33] Yes, and after that he played. But that's not the technicality
[24:38] I'm talking about when I say that the lead character was
[24:41] played by a debut actor. Oh, OK, because I'm not talking
[24:45] about Aamir Khan. Oh wait, somebody else replaced
[24:50] Or did somebody else play the lead role?
[24:53] Well, I don't know what because I remember Aamir Khan being the
[24:56] lead. Yes, you're not wrong.
[24:58] Aamir Khan does play Rajveer Raj Singh.
[25:01] Oh, I know, you know the younger Rajveer or Raj whatever was
[25:04] played by Imran Khan. Very good.
[25:07] Yes, it was played by Imran Khan and that was Imran Khan's first
[25:10] movie was a child actor his first movie and Aamir Khan and
[25:14] Juhi Chawlape tragic lovers. This movie was a tragic comedy.
[25:20] Kayamatse Kayamat, which translates from apocalypse to
[25:24] apocalypse. It's like the worst directions
[25:27] you can give somebody. So it's a romantic musical film
[25:32] released in 1988. Mansour Khans debut film.
[25:35] It was Imran Khans debut film. It was Aamir Khans technically
[25:39] second movie, also starred Julie Charlo.
[25:42] It was the first movie to have a long name which was abbreviated
[25:46] and became popular. It was QSQT right?
[25:49] Which then led to DDLJ and K&K which again I find it very weird
[25:55] to pronounce this Kank for some reason.
[25:58] But coming back to this QSQT, the only reason I remembered or
[26:01] I don't know why it was stuck in my head as being his debut.
[26:03] Though you do say holy and that rings a bell is because I
[26:06] remember there is this video that went viral of Aamir Khan
[26:10] back in the day going up and talking to people at Marine
[26:13] Drive and saying, hey, my debut film is coming out, please go
[26:16] watch it. Yeah, yeah.
[26:18] This was his viral marketing campaign back in 198889.
[26:23] Whenever that film came out. That's why it was stuck in my
[26:26] head as being his debut film. And by the way, Mansoor Khan was
[26:30] also the director of Jojita, which is one of your cases.
[26:35] He also directed Akele Hum Akele Tu.
[26:38] OK. Which also had a banger
[26:41] soundtrack. Akele hum Akele tum was Krema VS
[26:44] Krema, right? Yeah, so similarly, Jojita
[26:46] Vojicandar is also an adaptation of a movie called Breaking Away.
[26:50] OK. He also made Josh.
[26:52] Oh, West Side Story. Exactly.
[26:55] Pretty good albums, Very, very cool songs.
[26:59] Yeah, very cool songs. Kaamat Sai, Kaamat Jojita, Vasu
[27:02] Kandar, Akele Hum, Akele Tum and Josh like all four Banga
[27:05] soundtracks. And he then produced one movie
[27:08] to launch career of his nephew Imran Khan.
[27:11] He was a producer of Jane Tuya Jane.
[27:13] Na Jane tuya Jane na. So it came a full circle.
[27:17] Also very good soundtrack. He also won the national award
[27:20] for best popular film providing wholesome entertainment.
[27:24] I love that category. Which again, like too many
[27:27] qualifiers. Too many qualifiers.
[27:30] Listen, as long as everybody feels happy after the award
[27:32] show, that's good enough. All right, So talking about
[27:36] names and abbreviations, actually, this is as perfect a
[27:40] segue as it gets. I have a question for you.
[27:43] James was the founder for an American company and the company
[27:48] is founded in 19 O2, the name of JC Penney.
[27:52] Oh my Lord, this was what? Oh, that was you pulling a
[27:59] birdie on me. This was not OK.
[28:01] This was just way too quick. JC Penney was what I was going
[28:04] for. You know what?
[28:05] But I do have a question that was supposed to follow up with
[28:08] that. Let me get to that.
[28:10] But just for our listeners who are not on top of their American
[28:14] company from 19-O2 trivia, their benefit.
[28:18] James is the name of the founder of JC Penney.
[28:22] His name was James Cash Penny and Penny is spelled Penney.
[28:27] So he had Cash and Penny in his name and JC Penney got his name
[28:31] from his initials, which is James Cash to JC and Penny.
[28:35] And one of the reasons that the company became very successful
[28:37] was that this is the first time general stores gave you the
[28:41] option to return items items. People were quite entrapped by
[28:46] that idea and the concept and leading to the popularity of JC
[28:50] Penney in the early 20th century.
[28:53] However, in 2020, I think they are to file for bankruptcy.
[28:56] So they had a long run, but I'm not doing so well recently.
[29:00] Now, the oldest line of quintessentially American
[29:03] workwear that was introduced in 1922 by JC Penney was known as
[29:08] Dash. This Dash actually is perhaps a
[29:14] lot more recognizable and a lot more connected to another
[29:18] American company, except that the way we recognize it today
[29:23] came 45 years later, so like sometime in 1967.
[29:27] In 1922, when that same phrase was introduced, it referred to
[29:31] the American workwear line of clothing by JC Penney.
[29:35] What name was given to this particular line of clothing?
[29:40] And here I was thinking I'm very smart by guessing JC Penney from
[29:44] James in 19. But OK, so you're talking about
[29:48] a line of workwear which they released in the 20s, you said,
[29:51] right? Yes.
[29:52] Which became actually more famous with another company in
[29:55] the 1960s. Have I got that right?
[29:57] 1967, yes. American Workwear 1967 bell
[30:04] bottoms. No, not bell bottoms.
[30:07] So OK, I'm asking for the name, not design choice or not part of
[30:11] fashion. Oh, OK.
[30:13] Oh. Choice.
[30:14] It's a name for the clothing line that was launched by JC
[30:17] Penney. It had American workwear.
[30:19] This was launched in 1922. The name is perhaps a lot more
[30:24] recognizable as being part of another very huge American
[30:27] company, but that company only launched something with that
[30:31] name in 1967. It's like a copyright thing.
[30:35] OK, so same name, two different companies.
[30:38] Yeah, but also vastly different product.
[30:40] So it was a very different product that was launched in
[30:42] 1967. Oh, it had nothing to do with
[30:44] the 1922 clothing line. So what I'm asking you is, what
[30:48] is this clothing line called that since 1967 has been almost
[30:53] entirely associated to this other American company?
[30:57] Associated to another American company, this is workwear, the
[31:00] other one is not. The later one I'm guessing is
[31:02] not workwear. Not workwear at all.
[31:06] I was initially thinking of denim, but 40 years later it's
[31:09] too late for jeans, right? Yeah, again, denim.
[31:12] Not really a clothing line. Yeah, that's another problem.
[31:16] Are we talking about something like Abercrombie and Fitch or
[31:20] the Gap or something like that? No.
[31:22] OK, so now let me tell you a little bit more about the 1967.
[31:27] Product. OK, OK. 1982 You already know
[31:29] it's working Apparel, clothing line launched by JC Penney.
[31:33] OK. I'm asking you the name of it
[31:35] now, the same name thing, which was launched in 1967 by another
[31:38] big company, which is a whole different product.
[31:40] I'll tell you about that. That was launched in April 22,
[31:43] 1967 in Pennsylvania. OK, it had.
[31:47] Two names before this name that we now recognize it as the first
[31:52] one was Aristocrat and the second one was Blue Ribbon.
[31:56] Dash Aristocrat and blue ribbon dash.
[32:01] Dash would be a giveaway, so I'm not telling you what Dash is.
[32:04] Oh, OK, two names that they tried it out and it failed was
[32:08] Aristocrat, didn't work. Blue ribbon Dash didn't work.
[32:11] Oh, the third name work. And third name turns out to be
[32:13] the same name as the clothing brand launched by JC Penney
[32:17] 1922. Blue Ribbon, but it's walkway
[32:21] like the name that you've given me.
[32:23] Blue ribbon and Aristocrat. They're both like high end
[32:26] sounding names, but the JC Penney thing was a workwear and
[32:31] so everyday person kind of right.
[32:33] Which is interesting because this 1967 product was first sold
[32:37] for $0.45, so it wasn't an high end product by any means.
[32:42] But the name was like the branding was.
[32:44] Initially it was I guess Aristocrat sounded a little
[32:47] fancy schmancy and then Blue Ribbon Dash also maybe not the
[32:50] most relatable. The third name that they came up
[32:53] with was so recognizable with the company's brand also that
[32:57] today those two are heavily intertwined.
[33:00] You would only think of that company and that product if I
[33:04] mention the name. Aristocrat to ripen something we
[33:09] aren't talking about, like a watch brand or something.
[33:12] Not a watch brand. OK, time for another hint.
[33:14] Yes, this American company is an MNC.
[33:17] It has outlets all over the world.
[33:20] It's being sold all over the world.
[33:22] OK. In India, it doesn't go with the
[33:25] same name, the same name that is in question.
[33:28] It goes by a slightly different name.
[33:29] It's an Indianized name that they used to sell in India and
[33:33] also the main component is changed in India because of
[33:36] cultural reasons. A lot of international companies
[33:39] kind of Indianized once they come to India, right?
[33:42] Yeah, yeah, most MNCS do do that.
[33:45] Do do? No.
[33:50] I'll need some other clue. The reason that it would not
[33:52] work in India would be because the original component would not
[33:56] work. The main part of it would not
[33:58] work is because most people assume in India almost nobody
[34:03] uses that and I'm putting uses in quotation.
[34:07] It is not culturally acceptable to quote UN quote use it.
[34:12] Not culturally acceptable to use.
[34:15] OK, fine. You know what, I'll make it a
[34:16] little easier for you. It's not culturally acceptable
[34:18] to eat it that. I was just playing around.
[34:21] Beef. Beef, yes.
[34:22] So it's just food. It's a food thing.
[34:26] The Maharaja Mac. Maharaja Mac.
[34:29] What is the original name for the Maharaja Mac?
[34:31] It's a Big Mac. The Big Mac The Big Mac was the
[34:35] name of the clothing line launched by JC Penney in 1922.
[34:40] Are. You what's?
[34:42] The. Name of a burger from clothing
[34:47] line of workwear and their original choices were they were
[34:52] going to call the burger an aristocrat or a blue ribbon.
[34:55] I'm guessing Mac. Blue Ribbon Burger.
[34:57] They were going to call it a Blue Ribbon Burger.
[34:59] BRB. A blue ribbon burger.
[35:01] OK, that makes sense. A blue ribbon burger.
[35:03] You know, like high quality beef and what I have officially been
[35:08] casted. Not flabbergasted.
[35:13] Disgusted. No, no, just a flabber is, you
[35:15] know, very flabby. Flabby.
[35:16] This is like official gastric. Flabby, flabby, sure.
[35:23] And once again, credit to a dear listener who sent in some
[35:27] questions to me and I've used one of them.
[35:29] I will hopefully use the rest of them as well.
[35:31] This is Arush, so thank you so much, Arush, for sending in this
[35:34] question. You, you have to excuse Vineet
[35:37] because he did make short of your question very quickly when
[35:40] he answered JC Penney. But hey, thank you for sending
[35:42] me the follow up as well. So both the parts of the
[35:44] question were sent by Irish. First part of course, JC Penney
[35:47] and the second part being the Big Mac, which I thought was
[35:50] very interesting. Big Mac was not something that
[35:53] McDonald's came up with out of the blue.
[35:55] I mean, they might have. I don't know if they knew of Big
[35:57] Mac. They would have probably.
[35:59] Yeah, they probably did, because even today, if you type JC
[36:01] Penney Big Mac into the Google search bar, you get a set of the
[36:04] clothing line that is still sold at JC Penney.
[36:07] Oh, they're still selling the Big Mac.
[36:08] Apparently, yeah, Yeah. And that's not a copyright
[36:11] issue. I guess not, because they
[36:13] started at first, so I guess they can't really be sued for
[36:17] that. OK.
[36:19] Moving on from. OK, there's no segue for this.
[36:23] Sorry, I also want to point out Arush is such a sweetheart.
[36:27] This is what his e-mail says. A fresh new set of original
[36:30] questions for Aditya. I have also made sure to include
[36:33] some handy segues. He knows how much you struggle
[36:37] at segues. I think he just segued between
[36:40] his own questions. Extremely sweet.
[36:44] Thank you, Arish. We do struggle with it a lot.
[36:46] So you know what, listeners, if you just want to send us segues
[36:49] randomly, else that's fine. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
[36:51] Somebody like Bertie can make questions out of segues.
[36:54] So you know what? One day, we aspire to do the
[36:56] same. OK, keeping on with my team of
[37:00] Bollywood, in 2002, the most expensive Indian film ever
[37:04] produced was the lavishly produced Devdas with a budget of
[37:08] 50,00,00,000. Seems like a tiny amount right?
[37:13] 50,00,00,000 considering how much Adi Purush spent on.
[37:17] On disappointment. On awish.com version of the
[37:21] Ramayan, after Devdas was released, Director X announced a
[37:27] film on international terrorism called Ek as in 1/8 is the Hindi
[37:33] word for one. So the name of the movie was
[37:35] eight. It was going to be on
[37:36] international terrorism. It was supposed to be on a
[37:40] budget of 100 crore way back in 2003.
[37:47] OK, big budget. OK, so we were going from the
[37:50] most expensive film being Devdas at 50 crores to 100 crore being
[37:54] planned. It was going to be a movie on
[37:56] international terrorism. Amitabh Bachchan, Nana Patekar,
[37:59] Ajay Devgan and an international cast were supposed to zoom
[38:03] across major world capitals in a saga involving Al Qaeda, CIA and
[38:08] the research analysis. When journalists gasped at the
[38:13] budget, the director pointed out that the budget was actually
[38:16] only $20 million at the time and a top star like George Clooney
[38:20] or Julia Roberts got that kind of money for a simple film.
[38:24] For one single film, the logic was very sound, but no producer
[38:28] came forward to pick up the tab. OK.
[38:31] So the movie never got made, and after X's movie Y in 2007, it's
[38:39] highly unlikely that any producer would ever give this
[38:43] man any amount of money, considering that Y has earned a
[38:48] place in some lists of the worst movies ever.
[38:52] OK. So I want you to identify this
[38:54] director X who had the audacity to announce 100 CR film and
[39:01] whose next big budget film in 2007 earned the place in some of
[39:09] the lists that listed the worst movies ever.
[39:12] And so it's highly unlikely that he would ever be able to bring
[39:15] such a high big budget movie to theaters ever again.
[39:19] Even in today's day and age, where 200 CRP films are quite
[39:23] common, he would find it very difficult to find a producer who
[39:26] would spend even 1/4 of that money with him.
[39:29] OK, and 2007 was the disaster film, right?
[39:34] Like the disastrous film. Yes, the disastrous.
[39:39] Film 2006 was a good year for Bollywood. 2007 OK, no movie
[39:45] comes to mind immediately. Did the 2007 film also star the
[39:50] same people or similar people? You said Amitabh Bachchan, Nana
[39:53] Patekar, Raja Devan. Were any of them in the 2007
[39:55] film? Yes.
[39:56] So one of them people was in the 2007.
[39:59] OK, there is that Amitabh Bachchan film, but I don't know
[40:03] if it's 2007, it's based in Rajasthan and he's playing some
[40:08] sort of a mentor, teacher, guard or something like that.
[40:12] A club? Yeah.
[40:12] The movie you're thinking about is a club.
[40:14] Yeah, OK. But that I think it's a Vidhu
[40:16] Vinu Chopravanam, right? OK, yes, so if that was not that
[40:20] film. No, and that's a decent film.
[40:22] I think there were people who said that there could be better,
[40:24] but nobody said it was the worst film ever.
[40:26] So I'll give you some of the people's reactions to this
[40:29] movie. Rajiv Masand rated it zero out
[40:32] of five. Times of India acknowledged that
[40:36] some consider it the world's worst film.
[40:40] The Hindustan Times awarded it the Lifetime's worst ever movie
[40:44] award. OK.
[40:46] It came in first in an FHM India list of the 57 worst movies ever
[40:50] made. What the hell?
[40:53] And Total Film included in their list of the 66 worst films of
[40:57] all time. That part of film and that
[40:59] audacious director. It was a disaster.
[41:05] It's not just the fact that it's a commercial failure.
[41:09] It was just a really, really bad movie.
[41:14] Maybe give me something else from the filmography of this
[41:16] director. His first ever film was a 1989
[41:22] movie called Shiva. Hindi film.
[41:25] His first ever Hindi movie was a 1990 film called Shiva.
[41:30] Also Shiva was some then I'm guessing some South Indian film.
[41:34] Is it a Tamil? Film not Tamil, it was Telugu.
[41:37] OK, it's a Telugu film, Telugu film that I'm assuming he remade
[41:42] into Hindi, which is a very Priyadarshan thing to do.
[41:44] But Priyadarshan was not making hundred crore films.
[41:49] And actually in 2007, I'm pretty sure Priyadarshan was making
[41:51] great films. All his films were doing well.
[41:54] So that wasn't I could think of who fits his will.
[41:57] And I have a guest for the movie as well is Ram Gopal Varma.
[42:03] And the movie. That has to be RGV kiyaag.
[42:07] Yes, very good. I watched the movie and it's a
[42:11] terrible piece of filmmaking but I never knew the people included
[42:15] in the list of worst movies of all time.
[42:19] And just to imagine, through 3 short years prior to that, he
[42:22] had floated that Let's make a Hunt CR film starring Amitabh
[42:27] Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and all these people.
[42:29] Yeah, Ajay Devgan is an Arg as well.
[42:31] Exactly. So you have Mohan Lal as police
[42:35] inspector Narsimha. Oh wow.
[42:37] He's got 5 national awards, Amitabh Bachchan's got 6
[42:40] national awards and Ajay Devgn has four.
[42:43] So you have so many great names, great people, good character
[42:47] actors, but the movie was just so bad.
[42:53] And you know what? We've spoken about this in one
[42:54] of our very recent episodes where you're talking about
[42:57] remakes and how Sarkar is something both of us like.
[43:00] And he thought it was a great remake.
[43:02] Oh yeah, a great adaptation of Godfather.
[43:04] And here he was remaking a very iconic Bollywood film and he.
[43:09] There's no upside to remaking a movie like Sholay.
[43:13] They should have learned from Ram Charan's experience remaking
[43:16] Sanjir. I think people have kind of
[43:18] erased it from their collective memory.
[43:19] But Ram Charan made his Hindi debut with a remake of Amitabh
[43:23] Bachchan Sanjir. No, I didn't know.
[43:25] And it was bad. OK.
[43:29] But you can actually hate to watch it.
[43:31] Like ARGH is so bad you can't even hate to watch it.
[43:34] Oh, OK, well. Even Amitabh Bachchan said it
[43:36] was a mistake making them OK, so you're done.
[43:40] All right, so since Sholay features two friends doing
[43:47] things, here's a question about two other friends.
[43:50] And these are two actual people. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
[43:56] were great friends. OK, with the former being
[43:59] completely enamoured by the latter.
[44:01] So Henry Ford was a huge fan of Edison.
[44:03] When Edison was on his deathbed, Ford asked Edison's son Charles
[44:10] to do something for him. OK, Charles did that using X,
[44:16] which was present in the room at that time.
[44:19] Ah. OK, I think I've read about
[44:20] this. Oh, you already know, OK.
[44:22] No, no, I, I, I have a feeling. I have a feeling.
[44:25] Let's just say it's akin catching lightning in a bottle.
[44:29] Very well done. Yes, I think you do know the
[44:30] answer to this, but let me just complete the question.
[44:34] At that point, there were eight of X in the room.
[44:37] Today, eight of these have become 42 and are preserved in a
[44:42] museum. It was supposed to actually
[44:44] capture the fact that while Edison was most recognized for
[44:47] his work in electrical fields, his real love was chemistry.
[44:51] That is the reason, perhaps, that his son was asked to do
[44:55] what he did. You want to tell the audience
[44:57] what the answer is. Something related to him
[45:01] capturing his breath or something, right?
[45:04] It was supposed to be his last breath.
[45:06] Yes, Yeah. X were the test tube.
[45:09] So there were eight test tubes in which his breath was
[45:11] captured. I think they have split it up I
[45:14] guess into 42. How do you do that?
[45:17] That's why I'm saying catching lighting in a you can't like you
[45:21] capture his breath and then what?
[45:23] What did you do? You put a stopper and now you
[45:25] made it 42 or whatever. It's just impossible.
[45:27] You can't do that. And even if you do it, it's like
[45:29] you've captured his breath in a test tube.
[45:31] Right? OK, came me out.
[45:33] What are you going to do with it next?
[45:36] Listen, I was not there. I don't know what they were
[45:38] planning to do. There are these morbid things
[45:40] that people do when people are about to die.
[45:43] Somebody to soda inside his brain.
[45:45] Rasputin's penis was pickled in a jar.
[45:49] I understand it's an impressive specimen, but still, to what
[45:54] end? Listen, he was a man in Russia
[45:57] long ago. He was big and strong and.
[46:01] Yeah, and he was a lover of the Russian queen.
[46:02] Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all heard the stories.
[46:05] I did not know this was Ford by the way.
[46:07] Ford's idea, yeah. I think the the thing I read was
[46:10] they captured his last whisper. And there are 42 of these which
[46:14] exist now and the most famous of these are in the Ford Museum.
[46:17] Since you did answer this question very quickly, I will
[46:20] ask another question and as I have done so far, these are two
[46:24] questions sent in a list by another one of our lovely
[46:27] listeners. This one is Chinmay Lanka.
[46:30] Also, the name is so nice because it's a unique name.
[46:33] If they shorten it, it becomes Sri Lanka, which is a cute
[46:36] nickname. I hope somebody calls Chinmay
[46:39] Lanka, Sri Lanka. But Chinmay was very sweet and
[46:43] I'll read parts of her e-mail out as well.
[46:46] But before that, let me ask you another question that Chinmay
[46:48] shared. And this is close to my heart
[46:50] because it combines a couple of my loves.
[46:53] The first being a great funny name, the second being the TV
[46:58] show House MD and the third being well, the answer will be
[47:03] the third. So season 5 episode 10 of the
[47:08] show House MD is about a fitness guru who's known for her quote
[47:13] and quote natural lifestyle. Like every house episode goes,
[47:16] she develops some complications and the whole team is rushing to
[47:20] figure out what has gone wrong. And things keep getting worse
[47:23] and worse and how it's being, as usual, how self is not really
[47:26] helping and just trying to make things as terrible as they can
[47:29] before saving it at the last minute.
[47:31] Yeah. The idea being that she actually
[47:33] had a surgery done because she used to be overweight.
[47:36] So she had gastric banding done. And while she was selling this
[47:40] idea of like, oh, a natural, healthy lifestyle to lose
[47:43] weight, she herself had done it by this quote UN quote cheat
[47:46] method. So that was the whole crux of
[47:48] this episode. And the way House figures it out
[47:52] is because the patient keeps getting worse all the time and
[47:55] she's all hell bent on, like, walking out and she's getting
[47:58] mad that she's in the hospital and she's not getting a healthy
[48:01] food. At some point, House notices
[48:03] that she recovers a little bit when she ate some chocolate
[48:06] dessert. OK.
[48:07] He figures out later that, you know, she had a gastric bypass
[48:10] surgery done and the cure will be to undo that surgery and
[48:15] switching to a high carbohydrate, high sugar diet.
[48:18] All right, so I've given you a summary of the episode.
[48:20] This fitness guru trying to lead a fitness life didn't exactly
[48:24] get fit by leading that life herself had a medical procedure
[48:27] done. Turns out she has to have that
[48:28] reverse and go back to eating, quote UN quote, unhealthy foods,
[48:32] sugary foods to lead a healthy lifestyle.
[48:34] Now, what was the name of this episode, which is historically
[48:40] significant? Historically significant?
[48:45] No, I don't know. You'll have to give me a clue.
[48:48] OK, let me give you a clue that maybe it is historically
[48:50] significant in the way that it might not have ever happened,
[48:54] but it is such an urban legend that everybody assumes that it
[48:57] happened. That's half of history.
[49:01] The name is a quote that is famously misattributed to a
[49:04] person. Or rather, there's no real
[49:06] concrete proof that this person said this.
[49:08] Again, not really a clue. There are hundreds of
[49:11] misattributions I give you, Mr. Gandhi.
[49:15] Literally any quote on the Internet.
[49:17] I just put Gandhi's name. Yes.
[49:20] OK, let me remind you that the way House figures it out is when
[49:23] he sees the woman eating some very chocolatey dessert and
[49:27] tells her that she has to go back to eating all of these
[49:30] sugary, unhealthy foods for her to recover French history.
[49:37] French history. Something that happened in
[49:41] history. That's the name of the title The
[49:45] French Revolution, Part 1. Well, around the French
[49:48] Revolution, yes, right before the French Revolution.
[49:51] Right before the French Revolution.
[49:54] Marie Antoinette. This is the pastry thing.
[49:58] What is the famous quote? That is probably not something
[50:02] she said. Let the meat cake.
[50:05] Yes, yes. Which she never actually said.
[50:09] I think it was one of her biographers who attributed to
[50:14] her, but that was years later and houses the episode is named.
[50:18] Let them eat cake because she's trying to sell a healthy diet
[50:22] whereas she herself has to eat cake to survive.
[50:25] Very nice, very topical. How so?
[50:29] There are a lot of influencers who have been caught faking
[50:32] their fitness, lifestyle and whatnot.
[50:36] Help of AI. You can fake anything I guess
[50:38] these days, but none of our podcast trivia is faked.
[50:43] This brings you back to Chinmay's lovely e-mail where
[50:45] Chinmay said some very sweet things.
[50:47] Chinmay mentioned how she didn't start listening to us from the
[50:50] beginning, which fair enough, I don't think anybody was
[50:52] listening to us from the beginning.
[50:53] Hardly anybody did. I think it was just you and me,
[50:56] basically. You'd listen, I'd listen, and
[50:57] we'd get 2 listens just. Listening to make sure that the
[51:01] episode is edited correctly, she says that she has, once she
[51:05] discovered it, she has gone back and heard every single episode,
[51:07] which a few other listeners have also said.
[51:09] And that is very, very sweet. And I guess that's the whole
[51:12] time. Lessons of trivia.
[51:13] You can go listen to episodes from the past and trivia remains
[51:16] to be trivia. The most impressive post about
[51:18] that I saw was on Reddit when we took our break, 1 listener
[51:24] basically put in that I discovered your show and I based
[51:27] on 100 episodes in like a week or something and I was like dude
[51:32] I'm so happy you did that. But then again, 100 episodes in
[51:35] a week, please don't. Yeah, that is too much of our
[51:40] voice, but that's very sweet. So we thank Alison.
[51:43] And Chinmay also mentioned another sweet thing that she
[51:45] said was her partner is a quizzer.
[51:47] And despite her partner being a quizzer, it was the two of us
[51:52] who got her into trivia and fall in love with trivia.
[51:54] Yeah. Baby.
[51:56] And her partner is very happy about that.
[51:58] So she does share some of her questions with him.
[52:01] And these two questions were from a set that a partner has at
[52:04] some point created or asked or whatever has quizzed.
[52:07] OK, so that's great. So now you have officially
[52:10] Chinmay. You've officially designated us
[52:12] as the Hitches of the quizzing world.
[52:15] I don't even know if there was anybody calling for Hitch in the
[52:19] quizzing world, but sure, let's do that.
[52:21] Definitely. Why not?
[52:23] So Chinmay is very sweet e-mail. Thank you so much, Chinmay, and
[52:27] hi to your partner as well. And she said that she'll send us
[52:31] more question in the future. So absolutely, please do.
[52:34] We will be looking forward to it.
[52:35] And I think those are all of my questions for this episode.
[52:39] Thank you to all of the listeners who sent it in.
[52:42] That would be Chinmay, that would be Arush, and that would
[52:45] be Udayan. Thank you so much guys.
[52:48] I'll kick off the last question of today's episode.
[52:51] Go for it. And again, this is also a
[52:55] surprise, surprise Bollywood question.
[52:58] In this movie, a SRK's name was sponsored by the Bhilwara Group
[53:07] who are owners of the brand X. As part of a very visible
[53:12] campaign kicked off at the time, Shah Rukh Khan was called Shah
[53:16] Rukh X Khan as an X being the name of the brand and this was
[53:21] extended to the movie where the lead character was called Vikram
[53:26] X, who was the chairman of X Industries.
[53:31] The film's poor box office collections did not do too much
[53:34] for the brand, but X is still going strong and their later
[53:39] campaigns involved Virender X Sehwag.
[53:42] The movie itself was loosely based off the American romantic
[53:45] comedy it started in Naples. So which is the movie A and
[53:49] which is the brand X which literally sponsored the name
[53:53] Shahrukh's name in the movie? No, I didn't know this.
[53:56] I believe the movie is English Babu desi name.
[53:59] Yes. The sponsor would be Mayur
[54:01] Fabrics for this Shahrukh Mayur Khan Virendra, Mayur Sehwag.
[54:05] Yes, and the name of the character in the movie was
[54:09] Vikram Mayur, chairman of Mayur Industries.
[54:12] And interestingly enough, he played three characters in the
[54:14] movie. He played the father and the
[54:16] twin sons. Right, I remember this.
[54:19] Not a great film. So that's all the time we have
[54:23] for today's episode. So we have to wrap up now and
[54:27] let's start off by answering the audience question that I had
[54:31] asked at the beginning of today's episode.
[54:34] X has been branded the greenest king in history due to his
[54:37] monumental efforts. Huge swathes of cultivated land
[54:40] returned to forest. X helped remove nearly 700
[54:43] million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, and although his
[54:47] methods may be difficult for environmentalists to accept,
[54:51] ecologists believe it may be the first ever case of successful
[54:55] man made global cooling. Which king am I talking about?
[54:59] Did you tell me which year was this?
[55:02] This would be between the mid 1100s to the mid 1200s.
[55:06] Oh, what? OK, that is way earlier than
[55:09] expected. Very environmental king.
[55:12] I don't think I know any kings from 1100 over environmental.
[55:16] Oh, you definitely know him. I'm sorry, is this an Indian
[55:18] king? Did you mention that?
[55:20] No, he's not an Indian. No, no idea at all.
[55:23] I'm going to give you a clue that you may probably or
[55:27] possibly be related to this film.
[55:30] Genghis Khan. Yes, Yes, yes, yes.
[55:34] Yes. So it is Genghis Khan.
[55:36] And do you know how he successfully created global
[55:39] cooling? Just by killing off a lot of
[55:42] people I guess. Exactly.
[55:44] Literally he killed so many people, he raised kingdoms to
[55:50] the ground. Do you also know that something
[55:53] very monumental also happened at the same time?
[55:57] I don't know if you have seen Crash Course History by John
[56:00] Green on YouTube. No, I haven't.
[56:03] Oh my God it is one of my popular recommendations.
[56:06] Crash Course History by John Green on YouTube.
[56:08] It's it's a little dated now if the Green brothers were making
[56:11] these videos like almost a decade ago in that one of his
[56:15] favorite things to say whenever he talks about like, oh,
[56:17] generally this used to happen. Generally, XY's used to happen
[56:21] back in the day whenever, every time he would have this one
[56:25] graphic of the Mongol riders and it'd be like except the Mongols
[56:29] because they were the exception to almost every role like.
[56:32] Everything, yeah. They were doing things in ways
[56:35] which are unprecedented and perhaps not done even since
[56:37] then. Yeah, that's, I think all the
[56:40] questions that we had today. What's your pop culture
[56:42] recommendation, Aditya? Like I just said, Crash Course
[56:45] History by John Green, go check it out, it's on YouTube.
[56:48] He started doing a religion series which I think I have
[56:50] recommended in the past. So the history crash course is
[56:53] the older one, go check that out.
[56:55] I would also recommend a song that recently I don't know
[56:59] showed up on my reels and I think it's been something I've
[57:02] been listening to a lot. It is maybe familiar to a lot of
[57:06] Bollywood fans. So since this was a Bollywood
[57:08] heavy episode, the name of the song is 500 Miles and it's a
[57:12] song by Peter, Paul and Mary and Bollywood fans would have heard
[57:17] Jab Koi Baat. Beautiful song and Bollywood
[57:21] listeners of course would be familiar.
[57:22] Go listen to the original version.
[57:23] These are my 2 recommendations. Crash Course History by John
[57:26] Green and the song 500 Miles. Very good.
[57:30] So my popular recommendations for this week, there's a show
[57:34] called Tulsa King by Taylor Sheridan.
[57:37] It's available on ODT starring Sylvester Stallone as a recently
[57:42] released mobster who goes to the city of Tulsa.
[57:45] They show how he gets there with just a little money and then how
[57:48] he builds a mob enterprise from scratch.
[57:52] And there's also another movie which I would think is right up
[57:56] Aditya's alley because I found it extremely enjoyable was a
[57:59] movie called Deep Cover. Oh, the improv film.
[58:04] Yes, it's a very high concept film, just a single liner.
[58:07] What happens if the cops recruit improv comedians to go
[58:11] undercover in a mob? The acting is solid, but Orlando
[58:17] Bloom really just blew me away. We went really, really into that
[58:22] role of this really pretentious actor who turns into an improv
[58:26] artist and then just keeps escalating and escalating and
[58:30] escalating. It's just fantastic.
[58:32] I really, really enjoyed the movie.
[58:34] So go watch Deep Cover and Tulsa King, and I'd also recommend
[58:39] another show. I should have recommended this
[58:41] prior but I did not. Was a Hindi web series on
[58:44] Netflix. I think it's called Sauce.
[58:46] It's definitely worth a watch. They couldn't exactly stick the
[58:51] landing, but compared to most of the other kind of horror web
[58:54] series, this was really good, really atmospheric, really well
[58:57] shot. Those are my pop culture
[58:59] recommendations. And that's all the time we have
[59:01] for today's episode. Thank you for listening in.
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