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The first set of National Film Awards, given in 1954, honoured films released in which year?

  1. A.1950
  2. B.1952
  3. C.1953
  4. D.1954

Correct answer

C. 1953

Explanation

The correct answer is C, 1953. The National Film Awards were instituted in 1954 and the first set of awards honoured films released in 1953, which is why the first Best Feature Film award is recorded against the Marathi film Shyamchi Aai for that year. The practice of judging the previous year's releases has continued ever since.

Option A, 1950, and option B, 1952, are both earlier than the qualifying year and correspond to no award cycle. Option D, 1954, is the year in which the awards were instituted and first presented, and treating it as the year of the films being judged is the mistake the question is designed to catch, since the films honoured were always those of the preceding year. Remembering the pair as instituted in 1954 for the films of 1953 settles both halves of the question at once.

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Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

  1. A.Devika Rani
  2. B.Prithviraj Kapoor
  3. C.Sohrab Modi
  4. D.Nargis Dutt
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Correct answer: A. Devika Rani

Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969. She worked at Bombay Talkies and is often described as the first lady of Indian cinema, and the fact that the first award went to an actress is exactly what examiners like to test.