SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 2 of 97

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For which film did Asha Bhosle win the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Award in the Best Playback Singer Female category in 2002?

(a)Devdas
(b)Humraz
(c)Om Jai Jagdish
(d)Lagaan

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Asha Bhosle won the IIFA Best Playback Singer (Female) award at the 2002 ceremony for 'Radha Kaise Na Jale' from Lagaan.

Lagaan is a 2001 release, and an IIFA ceremony honours the previous year's films — which is the fastest route to option (d). The song is an A.R. Rahman composition, written by Javed Akhtar and sung as a duet with Udit Narayan.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Devdas — Devdas released in 2002, which places it in the following year's IIFA cycle rather than the 2002 ceremony this question dates.
(b)
Humraz — Humraz, as the paper spells it, is also a 2002 release. The 2002 awards were judging the films of 2001, so it was not yet eligible.
(c)
Om Jai Jagdish — Om Jai Jagdish came out in 2002 as well. Of the four titles listed, only Lagaan is a 2001 film, and 2001 is the year the 2002 ceremony rewarded.

Concept

The International Indian Film Academy awards are staged in a different host city each year, and each ceremony honours the previous calendar year's Hindi films.

So the year on the ceremony runs one ahead of the year of the film. The 2002 IIFA judged 2001 releases, and Lagaan was the dominant 2001 film.

Asha Bhosle's win was for 'Radha Kaise Na Jale', her duet with Udit Narayan on A.R. Rahman's score.

Read the award year, not the film year. Three of the four options are 2002 films, so a candidate who matches '2002' in the stem to a 2002 release will pick one of them and lose the mark.

Key facts

Asha Bhosle won the IIFA Best Playback Singer (Female) award in 2002 for 'Radha Kaise Na Jale' from Lagaan.
'Radha Kaise Na Jale' was composed by A.R. Rahman, written by Javed Akhtar and sung with Udit Narayan.
Lagaan released in 2001, and IIFA ceremonies award the previous year's films.

Study next

Awards won by Lagaan at the IIFA, Filmfare and National Film AwardsAsha Bhosle's national honours, including the Dadasaheb Phalke AwardState film awards in India, such as the Nandi Awards

Common traps

Matching the ceremony year to the film year. A 2002 ceremony judges 2001 releases.
Picking Devdas on the strength of its award haul. That haul came in the following cycle.

The year printed in the stem is the award year, not the film year, and that is what decides this item.

The same corner of the syllabus returns on 13 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.22, which asks which state instituted the Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1977.

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