1. Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan are old pals, but if memory serves, filming for Happy New Year was delayed by at least two years, if not more. What caused this long delay?

a) SRK was too busy making cringe remarks about Don 2 costar Priyanka Chopra to focus on acting

b) Farah Khan dislocated her shoulder facepalming at husband Shirish Kunder’s jokes

c) SRK slapped Shirish Kunder for making terrible jokes

2. 2011’s New Year’s Eve had a huge star cast and a rotten tomatoes rating of 30%. Which film would you think is responsible for NYE’s specific multiple-storyline, multi-character plot?

a) Love Actually (2003)

b) 200 Cigarettes (1999)

c) Valentine’s Day (2010)

d) Leap Day (2010)

3. Speaking of Rotten
Tomatoes and holiday movies, 200 Cigarettes
managed both to be rated 7% fresh and earned the following comment:

a) “Dismally unfunny”

b) “No one needs to see two Affleck brothers in one movie, ever”

c) “Well, at least Paul Rudd was cute!”

d) “Not your mother’s 200 cigarettes!”

4. Who can forget the epic ending to1989’s Parinda, when Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor’s characters Paro and Karan get married and set off to their honeymoon on a boat, after wishing Jackie Shroff’s character Kishan ‘happy new year!’. The next thing that happens is:

a) Paro drowns Karan

b) Kishan is finally free to hang out with his old pal Anna aka Nana Patekar

c) Anna carries out a hit on Paro and Karan

d) Karan abandons Paro on the boat and runs off for more brotherly adventures with Kishan

Answers

1. c) SRK slapped Shirish Kunder for making terrible jokes

2. If we’re honest, possibly all of them, but 2010 was the breeding ground for multiple story arc movies for holidays

3. a) “Dismally unfunny”

4. c) Anna carries out a hit on Paro and Karan