SJU Quizzers presents BER-SRK, a quiz on Shah Rukh Khan & his films Held on 19/08/2023 at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru for College & Open quizzers Set by Prof. Vijeta Kumar

1. THE BER-SRK QUIZ
SJU QUIZZERS, 18 AUGUST 2023

2. Sa Re Ka

3. Actor Salman Khan was first considered for the lead role in this
2000 film. He backed out because he was then dating the lead
actress and didn’t want to be paired with her. The role eventually
went to SRK. The film also marks SRK’s debut as singer.
Name the film, the song, and why Salman Khan didn’t want to be
paired with then gf.
1.

4. Apart from Kareena Kapoor, what these two actors have in common
is a 1997 film, originally titled ‘Maine To Mohabbat Kar Li’?
Name the film.
2.

5. Still from SRK’s first officially released commercial film.
Identify the song, name the film
3.

6. This 2004 film song starring SRK had a qawwali
number with English words (added by Anu Malik)
which made lyricist Javed Akhtar almost walk out of
the project.
Name the song, and the English words.
4.

7. 5.
Still from a song called Bas Itna sa Khwaab Hai.
Some fans think it is the aptest song to describe SRK’s
journey to stardom. Why?

8. Picture Abhi Baaki Hai…

9. 6.
SRK refused this role in a 2018 film because he was
worried he’d make the character (based on a real-life
figure) look attractive.
Had he chosen to do the film, it would have been his
second time with the director.
Name the film and the actor who eventually ended up
playing the role SRK refused.

10. The only film in which SRK played the role of
an IAS officer is in this 2002 hit film. His name
in the film is Yeshwant Rao. It’s a cameo role,
husband to another popular actor also doing
cameo. Name the film, and the other cameo
star. The other cameo star also cameoed for 2
seconds in Main Hoon Na.
7.

11. SRK won his first Filmfare award
for best actor in a negative role in
the year 1994 for X although many
believed that he should have been
given the award for Y which was
released the previous year. Name
X and Y.
8.

12. X, released in 2004, and Y,
released in 2022 has SRK playing
the same role, same name. Y’s
director says it pays tribute to
SRK’s role in X. Identify X and Y
and name the character.
9.

13. Pick the odd one out and explain why.
Om Shanti Om, Fan, Baazigar, Don, Duplicate.
10.

14. Only SRK film where his name is Sunil.
In the film, Sunil is in love with a
catholic girl.
Film also features Ashutosh Gowariker
as Sunil’s friend.
11.

15. X and SRK and have played brothers in
Subhash Ghai’s Trimurti. X also played
SRK’s brother in Y, a 1993 film directed by
Rakesh Roshan.
The first word in Y is SRK’s name today.
Identify X and Y.
12.

16. X and SRK were first paired opposite each other in Zamaana
Deewana, a 1995 film.
They also worked together in Y, a film which was initially called
Jaadoo, partly shot in 1996 and then shelved. It was released with
body doubles in 2004.
Neither X nor SRK wanted anything to do with the film so they
refused to even dub for the film. In 2011, the producers launched
the DVD release of Y, deliberately clashing with Don 2.
Y’s DVD sales were still great.
Identify X and Y.
13.

17. “I have to admit that it took me quite some time
to decide to watch X. I think I avoided the film
because of the crazy gigantic orange turban
that Shah Rukh Khan wears which is often
displayed on DVD covers and other online
information about the movie. Because of that
turban, I thought it might be a children's
comedy but it wasn’t.”
14.
Here is a short excerpt from a blog post about a 2005-released
SRK film. Identify the film.

18. SRK plays Gogo
Pasha, vaguely
based on a real life
magician in this
2017 Salman Khan
starring film.
15.

19. 16.
X didn’t speak to SRK for 16 years after working with him once
because of the film Y. During the shooting of Y, X claims that he
was so angry that he stuffed his hands in his own pockets and
ripped out his jeans because he wasn’t able to convince the
director that SRK doesn’t look fit enough to beat him in a fight
scene.
X claims that after Y, he pledged never to work either with SRK or
the director.
Name X and Y.

20. SRK endorsed this clothing brand from 1995 to
1999, earning him the name “Shah Rukh ———
Khan”
After him, celebrities like Chandrachur Singh,
Virender Sehwag, and Lisa Ray were brought in to
endorse it.
It had the popular jingle: “Stars ki Pasand”
What was the name?
17.

21. 18
.
X, released in 1993 is the only film to have Shah Rukh
Khan, Aamir Khan, and Saif Ali Khan all together in a
scene. Debut director Ashutosh Gowariker cast these
three cameo roles where they are playing themselves.
The lead actor in X is Deepak Tijori who was in a hit
1992 film from whose popular song X gets its name.
Identify X.

22. 19 SRK and Sridevi have acted only in
two films. The 2018 film zero and X,
released in 1996. In X, SRK plays the
role of an army major. Identify X.

23. 20. X is a 1996 film and the only film featuring SRK in
triple roles. Name the film and the three roles he
played.

24. Kuch Kuch Bhi Bhi

25. 21.
These pictures are from the sets of Devdas, during the shooting of
which many people couldn’t get married in Mumbai. Why?

26. 22.
VARANASI
PATNA
INDONESIA
FIND THE
CONNECTION AND
EXPLAIN EACH
PICTURE.
CHENNAI

27. 23.
SRK’s debut with Lux in 2005. He is the second male star to feature in a Lux Ad.
Apart from SRK, what is special about this ad?

28. 24
In Doosra Keval, a 1989 TV serial,
SRK plays the roles of Keval and
Second Keval (Doosra Keval) where
he unwittingly begins a trend for his
roles that will follow him well into
Duplicate and Don. What trend?

29. 25
X is a 1988 DD TV series based on characters created by Y.
X made a comeback in Feb 2021

30. 26.
SRK claims he can bend his
fingers all the way back
because of this game he
played as a child. He was a
major ———- master, he says.

31. X & SRK were both struggling theatre actors in
Delhi when X was once denied entry into a night
club because he was wearing chappals. SRK and
his friends borrowed shoes from a stranger and
made X wear them to sneak him into the night
club.
Along with SRK, X also had a small role named
Anil Chaudhari in Miss Roy’s famed ‘In Which
Annie Gives It Those Ones’.
Identify X.
27.

32. SRK says that X was and always will be his best-
smelling heroine. X claims there is a photograph taken
at Holi party of SRK smelling her after having sought
her and her husband’s permission.
X has won a national award for best actress in 2001.
Most recently X was seen in a Kannada film Y,
released in 2022, the second highest-grossing film that
year.
28.

33. 8 Oct 2021
29.

34. 30.
This is a 2010 film directed by Makrand Deshpande. Name the film and SRK’s role in it.

35. Thank you

36. Answers
1. Josh, Apun Bola, Salman Khan didn’t want to be paired with Aishwarya Rai as her brother.
2. Dil to Pagal Hai.
3. Koi na koi chahiye, Deewana.
4. Tumse Milke Dil Ka, Check That - Like That- Wicked.
5. The song is from Yes Boss (1997), and in this scene it features Villa Vienna which will later
become Mannat. SRK bought the bungalow 4 years later.
6. Padmavat, Ranveer Singh.
7. Saathiya, Tabu.
8. Anjaam, Darr.
9. Swades, Brahmastra, Mohan Bhargav.
10. Baazigar. It wasn’t a double role. He was the same guy, different version.
11. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa.
12. Jackie Shroff, King Uncle
13. Raveena Tandon. Yeh Lame Judaai Ke
14. Paheli
15. Tubelight

37. 16. Sunny Deol, Darr
17. Shah Rukh Mayur Khan
18. Pehla Nasha
19. Army
20. English Babu Desi Mem.
21. Most of the generators in the city were hired by SLB’s production team for Devadas. The set had 42
generators running and 700 light men.
22. Banarasi meetha paan named after SRK in Varanasi, goat named after SRK sold for Rs 6 lakh in
Patna during Bakrid, cubs from Bandung zoo named after SRK, Chennai cricket played named Shah
Rukh Khan (parents and sisters were fans), rare orchid from Singapore called Ascocenda now named
Ascocenda Shah Rukh Khan.
23. First time, a lux ad chose to put a male celebrity in the bath tub, using the soap. Previously all using
the soap had been women.

38. 24. Double roles
25. Wagle Ki Duniya, RK Lakshman
26. Kancha/Marbles/Goli
27. Manoj Bajpayee
28. Raveena Tandon. KGF 2.
29. Solidarity picture, Aryan Khan arrest
30. Shah Rukh Bola Khoobsurat hai tu, SRK plays himself.