Guess the Mukhada (GTM)

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Designed by Ramki Krishnan, this is a quiz that has been popular among GOSH solvers in our Whatsapp group. We are bringing it to a wider audience through the blog.

The objective is to identify the mukhada of Hindi film songs. Each question gives a clue about a Hindi film song. Based on the clue, you have to guess the mukhada of the song.

Some clues give a translation of the antara of the song in English (may not be verbatim!), others describe the picturization of the song, others give a snippet of interlude music etc.

There are 7 songs to be identified in this quiz.

Bonus: Once all the 7 songs are identified, you will see that there is a connect that links all the songs in sequence. Identify it.

Quiz designed by: Ramki Krishnan

Here are the solutions

Q1) Here is the translation of 2 lines from the antara of the song. Guess the mukhada.

If you say so, the moon will not set tonight.
Halt this night – we have only tonight, not the rest of our lives.

Additional hint: This movie stirred up quite a storm when it was released!


Answer: “Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahin…”
Translated lines:
Tum jo keh do to aaj ki raat chaand dubegaa nahin, raat ko rok lo
raat ki baat hai, aur zindagi baaki to nahin

Movie: Aandhi (Additional hint “storm” was for the movie)


Q2) Translation of the antara again – guess the mukhada

If someone comes searching for us, they won’t be able to find us. Somewhere.. You hide me, and I will hide you.

Additional hint: There have been 3 movies released with this name (with different tag lines) – one featuring Dilip Kumar, one with Rajesh Khanna and one featuring Sanjay Dutt.


Answer: “Mere dil mein aaj kya hai, tu kahe to main bataa doon”
Translated lines:
Koi dhoondhne bhi aaye, to humein na dhoondh paaye
Tu mujhe kahin chhupaa de, main tujhe kahin chhupaa doon

Movie: Daag (the song was from the 1973 version starring Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee)


Q3) Identify the song from the pic.

Additional hint: The actor (seen in pic) won the National award for best supporting actor in this movie.


Answer: “Sapne mein milti hai, kudi meri sapne mein milti hai”
Actor in pic: Manoj Bajpayee
Movie: Satya

Q4) Identify the song from the picturization given below.

The husband and wife are both artistes. The wife (who is indeed the more talented of the two) slowly starts to overshadow the husband in fame. Through the course of this song, you can see how she becomes more popular and how the husband’s pride and jealousy increases (which eventually leads to a rift). Ironically, the song conveys that her happiness lies only with him!

Additional hint: None required!


Answer: “Ab to hai tumse har khushi apni” (rough translation given in the last line of the clue!)
Movie: Abhimaan (hint “pride” given in the clue – not that it was required!)

Q5) Translation of the antara – guess the mukhada

Friends do not meet like this
Give me the response of love with love

Additional hint: A peppy duet from the 70’s, the actor-actress were married couple in real life too!


Answer: “Ek main aur ek tu, donon mile is tarah”
Translated lines:
Yun nahin milte hai yaar yaar se
De mujhe pyaar ka jawab pyaar se
Movie: Khel khel mein
Song picturized on real-life couple Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh (additional clue)
Most common wrong guess for this clue was “Jai jai siva sankar” from Aap ki kasam

Q6) Identify the song from the background music clip (Additional hint: The 2 lead stars from clue no. 4 feature in this song too)

Answer: “Rang barse bheege chunarwaali rang barse”
Movie: Silsila
Some gave the wrong guess of Jai jai siva sankar for this song too!

Q7) Guess the song from the pic.
Additional (cryptic clue)
Some jump at it – an early Dev Anand movie!

Answer: “Hain sabse madhur woh geet jinhe hum dard ke sur mein gaate hain”
Movie: Patita (hidden word in the additional clue “jumP AT IT An”)
Most common wrong guess: Yaad kiya dil ne kahaan ho tum (duet from the same movie!)

And the connecting link which many spotted:

The first word of each of the 7 songs from 1 to 7 give the mukhada of another song
“Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain” (from Guide)

Top 10 to get all the songs and connecting link

Mona Sogal

Anantha Kumar Rajamani

Ratna Rao

Priya Shyam

N Anantakrishnan

Sanjay Lavakare

Juhi Saklani

Zulfikar Ali

Vijay Bisani

Sreyashi Dastidar

Congrats

Others who got all the songs and connecting link (22 names)

Vijaya Verma, Meera, Vijaykumar BS, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Raj Jayaram, Raj Iyer, Madhup Tewari, Ravi, Vipra, Ashit Hegde, Rajee Gurumurthy, Anu, Ashwin Bhandarkar, Nilesh Parmar, Venkatraghavan S, Sowmya Ramkumar, Ratnakumar V, Lakshmi Prakash, Leena, Viraj Divecha, Ramki and Debasmita Basu

Well done

Solvers (with 1 mistake)

Dr MJ – Got all songs but missed the link

Sudha Bhaskaran and Maya Sharma – got 6/7 songs but got the link

Solvers who got partially correct answers

Sanveer
Vikram Chandrashekar
Priya Sethuraman
Sriparna Ray
Harish T K
Achal Rangaswamy
Shom
Amit Chaudhry
Sri Grandhi and
Viju Desai

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