SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 9 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 100

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Which music-composer duo was honoured with the National Lata Mangeshkar Award for the year 2020?

(a)Jatin-Lalit
(b)Anand-Milind
(c)Salim–Sulaiman
(d)Sachin–Jigar

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The composer duo Anand-Milind — the brothers Anand and Milind Shrivastav — received the National Lata Mangeshkar Award for the year 2020.

The award is conferred by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Lata Mangeshkar's home state, for outstanding work in light music — a category covering film music direction and playback singing.

All four options name real composing duos, so nothing in the question can be reasoned out. This is pure recall of the awardee.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Jatin-Lalit — Jatin-Lalit, the Pandit brothers behind a run of 1990s Hindi film soundtracks, are a genuine composing duo but not the recipients of this award for 2020.
(c)
Salim–Sulaiman — Salim-Sulaiman, the Merchant brothers, are a well-known Mumbai composing pair, but the 2020 National Lata Mangeshkar Award did not go to them.
(d)
Sachin–Jigar — Sachin-Jigar — Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya — belong to a later generation of film composers and were not the 2020 awardees.

Concept

The National Lata Mangeshkar Award is a state honour, instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and given for excellence in light music.

It sits alongside that state's other national awards in the arts, the Kalidas Samman and the Tansen Samman.

None of the three is a Union government award, and that is the distinction SSC most often probes.

Lata Mangeshkar herself was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on 28 September 1929, and was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001.

The year attached to an award of this kind is the year it is for, not necessarily the year of the ceremony. Read the question as 'the award for 2020'.

Key facts

Anand-Milind received the National Lata Mangeshkar Award for the year 2020.
The award is instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and given for excellence in light music.
Madhya Pradesh's other national honours in the arts are the Kalidas Samman and the Tansen Samman.
Lata Mangeshkar was born in Indore on 28 September 1929 and received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.

Study next

Madhya Pradesh state honours in the arts: the Kalidas Samman and the Tansen SammanCentral honours in music and cinema: the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the Dadasaheb Phalke AwardRecent recipients of major Indian arts awards, by award year

Common traps

Reading it as a Union government honour — it is a Madhya Pradesh state award.
Eliminating an option because the duo looks unfamiliar — all four are real composing pairs, so only the awardee's name decides it.

SSC pulls one awardee-and-year pair per shift from state and national arts honours. This shift also runs a playback-singing item at GA Q.22, on Manna Dey and the 1952 film 'Amar Bhupali'.

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