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प्रश्न
Discuss the following question in detail and write the answer in your notebook :
Do you agree with the statement that Patol Babu is a practical man who comes to terms with whatever life has to offer? Give reasons for your answer.
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उत्तर
Patol Babu is a practical man. He was offered a role in Baren Mullick’s film of an absent- minded pedestrian. The dialogue he was given was only a single syllable ‘Oh’. Patol Babu thought it rather strange for once he had been a famous stage actor, he thought as if those people were making fun of him but he was told that at least he was lucky to have a dialogue. There were others who appeared in that scene but had nothing to say, even the hero. Patol Babu still felt discouraged. He thought it was all just a waste of time but his mentors words awakened him, he remembered his mentors advice. He had once told him (Patol Babu) that as an artist his aim should be to make the most of his opportunity and he should bring out the true meaning of his lines. Patol Babu suddenly felt that he could write a whole thesis on that one syllable because the same exclamation if spoken in different ways carried different meanings. He now wanted to present his part in the best possible way. For him money did not matter though he needed money very badly. Surely he was a practical man who came to terms with whatever life had to offer.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
"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.
(a) Why did Patol Babu repeat the word, `oh' over and over again '?
(b) What 'astonishing discovery' did he make?
(c) What does the word, 'uttered' mean?
How do we know that Patol Babu was a dedicated actor?
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 him into the middle of the city to make a laughing stock out of him.'
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) Why does he think that he is being made a 'laughing stock'?
(c) What does the word 'hoax' mean?
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?
(a) Why was Patol Babu badly in need of money?
(b) What was the small job which gave him intense satisfaction?
(c) What does the word 'measured' mean in the above context?
Answer the following question briefly :
How did Patol Babu react? Why?
Answer the following question briefly :
Why did Patol Babu lose his first job in Calcutta*?
Answer the following question briefly :
Who was Mr. Pakrashi? How do his words help Patol Babu in enacting his role?
Answer the following question briefly :
‘Patol Babu was a meticulous man’Elucidate.
Why did Mr. Mullick turn down Patol Babu's request for a rehearsal?
Discuss the following question in detail and write the answer in your notebook :
'I hope the part calls for some dialogue?' Who says this? Why does he /she ask this
question?
Discuss the following question in detail and write the answer in your notebook :
Patol Babu is an amateur actor for whom walk-on part in a movie turns into an ultimate challenge. Discuss.
Discuss the following question in detail and write the answer in your notebook :
Why does Patol Babu walk away before he can be paid for his role? What does this reveal about his character?
Here are some lines from the lesson. Match the meanings of the underlined words with their meanings listed below
| (a) Then he had a job in a Bengali firm which he gave up in disgust when his boss began to treat him in too high-handed a fashion | stimulate the imagination |
| (b) A faint memory was stirred up in Patol Babu's mind. | to surrender or relinquish |
| (c) At first he opened a variety store which he had to wind up after five years. |
staged |
| (d) In Jatras, in amateur theatricals, in plays put up by the club in his neighbourhood, Patol Babu was always in demand | to gain control over one's actions |
| (e) Patol Babu was about to step forward when he was pulled up short by a voice shouting 'Silence!' |
shut down |
| (f) Patol Babu pulled himself together | stopped |
Patol Babu writes a letter to Nishikanto Ghosh to thank him for being instrumental in his getting a role in a film. He also shares his experience at the film shoot including the excitement and deep satisfaction that he derived from the same. Write the letter in about 200 words.
Listen to the talk on character actors and as you listen, complete the exercise, as directed.
Supporting roles are those roles that do not affect the plot or the subject of the film (True/False)
Listen to your teacher read out from page no. 193, the passage on character actors and complete the exercise as directed.
'star quality' refers to things like……………..(Tick the right choice)
Ten minutes or so later Naresh Dutt went looking for Patol Babu near the paan shop and found that he was not there. “That’s odd the man hadn’t been paid yet. What a strange fellow !”
(a) Where had Patol Babu gone ?
(b) Why did Patol Babu leave without informing anyone ?
(c) Why was Naresh Dutt looking for Patol Babu ?
(d) What does the incident tell us about Patol Babu ?
In Patol Babu, Film Star, how is Patol Babu's character a commentary on the struggling actors in the film industry?
