Practice Questions: Patol Babu Film Star | Practice Questions with Solutions for Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh… ’’Patol Babu began giving the exclamation a different inflection each time he uttered it. After doing it a number of times he made an astonishing discovery.

• Why did Patol Babu repeat the word, ‘oh’ over and over again ?
• What ‘astonishing discovery’ did he make ?
• What does the word, ‘uttered’ mean ?

Ans:

• Patol Babu repeated the word ‘Oh’ over and over again to bring ofit different meanings of the word.
• He made that the single word ‘Oh’ could be spoken with different inflections and when spoken in a different manner it conveyed a different meaning.
• ‘Uttered’ means ‘spoke’.

Q2: What did Gogon Pakrashi teach Patol Babu?
Ans: Gogon Pakrashi was Patol Babu’s mentor. He was a wonderful actor without a trace of vanity in him. He told Patol Babu that whatever part he was offered he should never consider it beneath his dignity. He told him to squeeze the essence of every dialogue and serve it to the audience.

Q3: What attention did Patol Babu pay to the minor role he played in the movie ?
Ans: Patol Babu was given only a minor role in the film, as a pedestrian, who was to collide into the main actor Chanchal Kumar and utter a monosyllabic sound “oh”. But his passion for the job drove him hard and he rehearsed for that single word many a time. He discovered that each time he pronounced the word it came out differently and conveyed a different meaning. He suggested the director that he should hold a newspaper in his hand and also wear a moustache to look more authentic. He ultimately delivered the role to his utmost satisfaction.

Q4: Naresh Dutt was surprised to see that Patol Babu was so much satisfied with his performance that he did not wait to get his payment. Comment.
Ans: Patol Babu was a meticulous man for whom acting was a passion and not a job. He had got only a monosyllabic dialogue ‘oh’ to utter in his movie. He practised hard for his role and executed it to the perfection. He was happy with his performance and even the director and the leading actor praised his performance. Patol Babu thought that film people would not realise the importance of the hard work done by him. He felt that taking money for the small part he performed will be trivialising his performance. He was a passionate actor to whom creative satisfaction mattered more than money. That made Naresh Dutt a little surprised.

Q5: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Were these people pulling his leg? Was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A meek, harmless man like him, and they had to drag hirp into the middle of the city to make a laughing -tock out of him.

• Who is the speaker?
• Why does he think that he is being made a ‘laughing stock’?
• What does the word ‘hoax’ mean?

Ans:

• Patol Babu is the speakerj
• Patol Babu has been given a monosyllabic exclamation as his dialogue.
• The word ‘hoax’ means ‘a humorous or malacious deception’.

Q6: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
It is true that he needed money very badly, but what was twenty rupees when measured against the intense satisfaction of a small job done with perfection and dedication?

• Why was Patol Babu badly in need of money?
• What was the small job which gave him intense satisfaction?
• What does the word ‘measured’ mean in the above context?

Ans:

• Patol Babu was unemployed for a long time. .
• It was the job of performing his role of a pedestrian in a film.
• In the above context the word ‘measured’ means ‘ascertained the extent of (a thing) by comparison with a fixed unit’.

Q7: Why did the dialogue given to him disappoint Patol Babu?
Ans: He was of the view that he would get a good role in the film. He would have a big speaking part. But when he was given his role on a piece of paper it contained only one monosyllabic sound ‘oh!’. He thought that he had been humiliated.

Q8: What advice had Mr Pakrashi given to Patol Babu?
Ans: Mr Pakrashi was the mentor and guru of Patol Babu. He had advised him that each word of a dialogue was just like a fruit of a tree. An actor should pluck that fruit and give its essence to the audience. The quality of the performance should matter.

Q11: Why does Sosanko say that Patol Babu was a lucky actor?
Ans: Mr. Baren Mullick was a famous director of films at that time. Only lucky people would get a role in his films. Speaking part was given to only a few persons. Hundreds of people would remain silent as per the role. On the day Patol Babu was given a monosyllabic sound as a dialogue even the hero of the film Mr Chanchal Kumar had no speaking role. That’s why Sosanko says that Patol Babu was a lucky actor.

Q12: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
‘Oh yes. I must say I was quite taken aback. After so many years’.

• Who is the speaker of the above lines?
• What offer was made to the speaker?
• Which quality of the speaker is highlighted in this extract?

Ans:

• Patol Babu is the speaker.
• He was given the offer of playing the role of a pedestrian in a film.
• Enthusiasm.

Q13: “Counting your chickens again before they’re hatched, are you? No wonder you could never make a go of it. ”
As soon as Patol Babu gets the offer of a role in the film, he starts daydreaming of the success, money and fame he will achieve. Unfortunately it does not work out in that way. Write a speech in 120-150 words for the morning assembly on the topic—Dream big, but follow it up with action.
Ans:

Good Morning!

Respected Principal Sir/Madam, Vice Principal, teachers and all dear colleagues. Today I am going to throw light on the topic ‘Dream big, but follow it up with action’. The mere imagination of any success gives us immense pleasure. It is good to dream big. But meticulous endeavours must be started from the very day that one has the dream. You must have heard that one must deserve first before one desires.
Have you ever heard about a man who has become successful just by having a big dream? A big dream is a motivating factor. It makes one ready to commence one’s hard work. There must be proper introspection of the efforts after certain interval. For achieving goal one must be sagacious, diligent apd patient. There must be indomitable spirit in the individual. Man should dream once but continue his effort regularly. It is known that everybody will share our success but nobody will share our failures. Keeping this fact in mind we must continue our efforts meticulously till the big dream seen by us becomes true.

Thanks

Q14: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
“This is only the first step on the ladder, my dear better-half! Yes. the first that would…..
God willing….. mark the rise to fame and fortune of your beloved husband!”

• What was “the first step on the ladder”?
• What characteristic does the speaker display here?
• What does the word, ‘fortune’ mean?

Ans:

• The first step was the break in the film, which he had got.
• The speaker’s overconfidence is displayed here.
• The word ‘fortune’ means ‘luck’.

Q15: Why does Patol Babu’s wife tell him that he is counting his ‘chickens before they’re hatched’ ?
Ans: Patol Babu broke the news about his acting debut in a movie. He told his wife that it would be his first step to rise to fame and fortune. But his wife knew that Patol Babu always used to get overenthusiastic even before anything concrete happened. So she told him not to count the chicks before the eggs hatched.