Film, Theatre, and Media

Bhanu Athaiya won India's first Oscar in 1983 for Best Costume Design for the film 'Gandhi'. She shared this award with John Mollo. This achievement came decades before AR Rahman's 2009 Oscars for 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Resul Pookutty also won an Oscar in 2009 for sound mixing in the same film.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema, given for lifetime contribution to Indian film industry. Dilip Kumar (born Yusuf Khan) was the first actor to receive this prestigious award in 1994. He was a legendary method actor known for his versatility and emotional depth in films like 'Mughal-e-Azam' and 'Devdas'.

Amitabh Bachchan won the National Film Award for Best Actor for the 2005 film 'Black' (actually awarded in 2007 for 2005 films). His portrayal of a deaf-blind man's teacher was widely acclaimed. Prakash Raj won Best Supporting Actor that year for 'Dil, Dosti Etc.'

Vijay made his debut as a lead actor in the 1992 Tamil film 'Naalaya Theerpu', directed by his father S. A. Chandrasekhar. 'Amaravathi' was Ajith's debut, and 'Prema Pustakam' was also Ajith's.

While 'Amaravathi' was Ajith Kumar's first lead role in Tamil, his actual film debut was in the Telugu film 'Prema Pustakam' (1993). 'Naalaya Theerpu' was Vijay's debut, not Ajith's.

Dennis MacAlistaire Ritchie created the C programming language at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. C became one of the most influential programming languages and served as the foundation for many subsequent languages including C++, Java, and Python. Ritchie's work fundamentally shaped modern computing and software development.

In the 1993 film 'Philadelphia', Tom Hanks played Andrew Beckett, a lawyer fired for having AIDS. Sam Baldwin was his character in 'Sleepless in Seattle', Sherman McCoy in 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', and Adult Josh Baskin in 'Big'.

'Sesa Sravan' (1976) is recognized as the first complete color Oriya (Odia) film. 'Gapa Hele Bi Sata' was black and white (1960), while 'Ramayan' and 'Sita Bihbaa' are not the first color films in the sequence of Oriya cinema history.

Uttam Mohanty's first Hindi film was 'Nayaa Zaher' (1973), a remake of the Bengali film 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'. 'Zaher' was the original Bengali version, 'Padosan' is a different film, and 'Ramayan' is unrelated to Mohanty's Hindi debut.

M.P. (Sidhanta) Mohapatra's first release as an actor in an Oriya film was 'Pathara Khasuchi Bada Deulu' (1980). 'Shardhanjali', 'Rakhile Siba Mariba Kie', and 'Suna Bhauja' are his later films in the 1980s.

Parvati Devi was indeed the first actress in Ollywood (the Odia film industry), starring in the 1936 film 'Bhakta Salbeg'. This marked the beginning of female acting in Odia cinema. The other options were later actresses in the industry.

The 1976 Oriya film 'Gapa Hele Bi Sata' (meaning 'It's a Story but True') starred Harish Mohanty and Banaja Mohanty as the lead pair. This was a significant film in Odia cinema. The other options list different actor-actress pairs who worked in other Odia films.