Round 11: Tossup 4
A documentary about this regime inspires students to kill a defense minister who caused a jet crash in a 2006 film. Two oblivious elites ignore the run-up to this regime while obsessed with a game in a 1977 Technicolor film. At the climax of a film set during this regime, rain clouds emerge as Elizabeth watches a crowd’s exuberant celebration. While working in advertising, a future director visited the set of a film that takes place during this regime, (*) Jean Renoir’s The River. A young brother and sister living under this regime chase a train through a field of white flowers in a film from the Parallel Cinema movement, which emerged after this regime’s end. Villagers burdened by this regime’s land tax during a drought are challenged to a cricket match in Lagaan. For 10 points, what colonial regime is the setting of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy? ■END■
ANSWER: British Raj [or British India; accept descriptions of British colonial rule of India or crown rule in India; prompt on the British Empire with “in what region?”] (The films in the first two sentences are, respectively, Rang De Basanti and The Chess Players.)
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