1 . Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?
2. What has Asokamitran brought up through this write up?
Answer
topics of film industry
3. Why was the author praying for crowd shooting at all times?
Answer
to avoid epical narrations
4. How was Kothamanglam Subbu treated in the Gemini studio?
5. Who was Greta Garbo?
6. Who was the Englishman?
7. Who was Subbu’s enemy?
Answer
The boy in the makeup room
8. When did MRA visit Madras?
9. Why was Subbu a trouble shooter?
Answer
because of his problem resolving quality
10. What has been the make up room compared to?
Answer
hair-cutting salon
11. Who was heading the make-up department?
Answer
A Bengali and later was succeeded by a Maharashtrian
12. Who imitated the scenes of Sunset and Sunrise of Jotham Valley?
13. How does the author come to know that English author was Stephen Spender?
Answer
from a book- The God that failed
14. The boy in the make up room was jealous of whom?
Answer
Subbu’s success and his closeness to the boss
15. Why did everybody in the studio think of giving some work to the author?
Answer
because of the idle appearance of his work
16. What was MRA?
Answer
The Moral Rearmament Army- a counter movement to International Communism
17. For whom was Gemini studio making films?
Answer
for simple Tamilians who have no interest in English poetry
18. What has Asokamitran brought up through this write up?
Answer
topics of film industry
19. When was Gemini studio set up?
20. Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?
Answer
Asokamitran (1931), a Tamil writer
