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Patol Babu, Film Star
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?
a) The speaker is Patol Babu.
b) Patol Babu thought that he was being made a laughing stock as the role that had been assigned to him was a very small part in the film. He just had one dialogue to deliver, “Oh”.
c) 'Hoax' is a deliberate falsehood or a fraud performed by deceiving or cheating someone.
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'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?
Who was Mr. Pakrashi and how did he instil the value of being true to one's work in
Patol Babu?
What was the news that Nishikanto Ghosh gave Patol Babu?
How did Patol Babu react? Why?
Why had Patol Babu lost his first job in Calcutta?
How does Patol Babu reconcile to the dialogue given to him?
Who was Mr. Pakrashi? How do his words help Patol Babu in enacting his role?
How do we know that Patol Babu was a meticulous man?
Why did Mr. Mullick turn Patol Babu's request for a rehearsal?
What were the special touches that Patol Babu gave to his role to make it more authentic?
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