Extract Based Questions: Patol Babu Film Star - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“I hope the part calls for some dialogue. ”

(a) Who says this?
Ans: Patol Babu speaks these lines.

(b) To whom is he speaking?
Ans: Patol Babu is speaking to Naresh Dutt.

(c) Why does she ask this question?
Ans: Patol Babu had been offered a role in a movie so he wanted to know whether he had any dialogue. He had been an amateur actor in the past. His interest in acting had been rekindled.

Q2: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“hope you won’t turn him away. They ’ll pay you, of course. ”

(a) Who is speaking? To whom is he speaking?
Ans: Nishikanto Babu is speaking to Patol Babu.

(b) Who is he referring to?
Ans: Nishikanto Babu is referring to his youngest brother-in-law Naresh Dutt.

(c) What would they pay the listener for?
Ans: They would pay him for enacting a small role in their movie.

Q3: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“He’s about thirty. A strapping young fellow. He said he would be here by ten thirty. ”

(a) Who does ‘he’ in these lines refer to? Who is the speaker?
Ans: ‘He’ refers to Naresh Dutt. Nishikanto Babu, Patol Babu’s neighbour, is the speaker.

(b) What time does he actually arrive by? Why does he come there?
Ans: He came at half past twelve. He wanted to offer Patol Babu a role in a movie he was working in.

(c) Is his visit successful? Explain.
Ans: Yes, because Patol Babu agrees to play the minor role of a pedestrian in the film he was associated with.

Q4: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Indeed there was a time when people bought tickets especially to see him. ”

(a) Who is being talked about in these lines?
Ans: The person being talked about is Patol Babu.

(b) Why did people buy tickets to see him?
Ans: Patol Babu had been a popular actor on stage, performing in amateur theatre, in his youth.

(c) Where was he living at that time?
Ans: Patol Babu was living at Kanchrapara.

Q5: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Ever since then Patol Babu had struggled to make a living. ”

(a) What was Patol Babu’s first job?
Ans: Patol Babu worked in a railway factory in Kanchrapara.

(b) Why did Patol Babu come to Calcutta?
Ans: Patol Babu came to Calcutta as he was offered a higher pay in a clerical post with Hudson & Kimberley in Calcutta.

(c) Why did he have to struggle to make a living?
Ans: Patol Babu lost his job at Kimberley & Hudson during the war years and since then had changed several jobs but could not succeed in making a living.

Q6: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“There’s no doubt about that. By the way, the shooting takes place tomorrow morning. ”

(a) Who is the speaker? Who is he talking to?
Ans: Naresh Dutt is speaking to Patol Babu.

(b) What is he so sure about?
Ans: Naresh Dutt is sure about the fact that Patol Babu was just right for the role in the movie.

(c) Where was the shooting going to take place?
Ans: The shooting was going to take place outside a seven-storey office building called Faraday House, near the crossing of Bentinck Street and Mission Row.

Q7: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“But you haven’t told me about the part.”

(a) Who is the speaker? Who is he speaking to?
Ans: The speaker is Patol Babu. He is speaking to Naresh Dutt.

(b) What does the ‘part’ mentioned in this line refer to?
Ans: It refers to the movie role that had been offered to Patol Babu by Naresh Dutt.

(c) Describe the ‘part’ mentioned in this line.
Ans: It was the role of a short-tempered, absent-minded old pedestrian who collides with the hero of the movie in a street.

Q8: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Fine. I wouldn ’t have come to you for just a walk on part. For that we pick people from the street. Of course there’s dialogue and you ’ll be given your lines as soon as you show up tomorrow. ”

(a) Who is the speaker? Who is being spoken to?
Ans: The speaker is Naresh Dutt. He is speaking to Patol Babu.

(b) What was the part offered to the listener?
Ans: Patol Babu had to enact the role of an absent-minded, short-tempered pedestrian who collides with the hero.

(c) What was the dialogue that he had to say?
Ans: Patol Babu’s dialogue consisted of a single word, “Oh!”

Q9: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Counting your chickens again before they’re hatched, are you?”

(a) Who is the speaker?
Ans: The speaker is Patol Babu’s wife.

(b) What does she mean by ‘counting your chickens before they are hatched’?
Ans: Patol Babu had already started anticipating a career in the movies after he enacted the small role that had been offered to him. His wife made this remark cautioning him that he was talking of success before he had achieved it.

(c) What is the speaker’s opinion of the person being spoken to?
Ans: His wife did not have a high opinion of his abilities and did not consider him a successful person.

Q10: Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Patol Babu suddenly felt a little nervous. Should he ask somebody? There was Naresh Dutt there, should he go and remind him?”
(a) Where was Patol Babu standing at this time?
Ans: Patol Babu was standing near the shooting site waiting for the shooting to start.

(b) Who was Naresh Dutt?
Ans: Naresh Dutt was the youngest brother-in-law of his neighbour who had got him a role in a movie.

(c) What did he want to remind him of?
Ans: Patol Babu wanted to remind him of the fact that he had not been given his dialogues.