1. Who can forget Sanju’s amazing makeover in Mein Hoon Na, in which she goes from rocking serious curls and kajal to straight hair and lighter skin in under 5 minutes. This glow-up was done so:

a) Major Ram could display to Ms. Chandni that he was indeed sensitive, and a good listener

b) So Sanju and Minnie could have a dance-off

c) This was a subtle campaign for a fairness cream that shall not be named- their promise: lighter skin tone so you can win the affections of the overaged underachiever who’s clearly wearing a wig under that headband

d) Not a fairness cream campaign, but definitely all the stuff about winning abovementioned loser’s attention

2. In Hrithik Roshan’s film debut Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, how does the audience distinguish between the otherwise identical Rohit and Raj, after the former’s death and the latter’s sudden, but supposedly handsomer, emergence in New Zealand, thus learning the following lesson: death is the most effective glow-up?

a) Rohit wears glasses while Raj doesn’t wear
anything that isn’t lycra

b) Rohit has blue eyes while Raj has green eyes

c) Raj has a very prominent handlebar mustache

d) Rohit has his little brother surgically attached to his left arm

3. The award for most galactical-themed glow-up definitely goes to Rekha for Khoon Bhari Maang (1988), where she has an ‘accident’ after which she returns to seek revenge on her philandering husband and scummy former best friend. Rekha’s character Aarti had been disposed off in the following way:

a) She had to listen to Kabir Bedi recite poetry till her ears started bleeding and her head exploded

b) She was literally fed to an alligator and left for dead

c) Her kids critiqued her parenting till she disappeared into the wilderness so they could parent themselves and see how they like it

d) She made fun of Rakesh Roshan’s wig, and he killed her character off

4. Between his two-in-one weirdo stalker characters in Baazigar, one SRK woos sisters played by Kajol and Shilpa Shetty. One character is cooler than the other. What is the deciding glow-up-factor between SRK’s two alter egos?

a) One wears glasses, obvs

b) One wears colored contacts, obvs

c) One wears glasses and colored contacts

d) All the above statements are somehow true

Answers

1. d) Not a fairness cream campaign, but definitely all the stuff about winning an underachieving loser’s attention

2. a) Rohit wears glasses while Raj doesn’t wear anything that isn’t lycra

3. b) She was literally fed to an alligator and left for dead

4. d) All the above statements are somehow true