Question

Statement - I: M S Gopalakrishnan is a student of Lalgudi Jayaraman
Statement - II: S Balachander hails from the family of the Tanjore Quartet

Choose the Correct option:

• A. Statements I and II are true
• B. Statements I and II are false
• C. Statement I is True, and II is False
• D. Statement I is false, and II is true

Hint:

Recall who taught M S Gopalakrishnan and which family S Balachander came from.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Check Statement I:
M S Gopalakrishnan (born 1931, Mylapore, Chennai) learned the violin from his own father, Parur Sundaram Iyer. He gave his first concert at the age of 8.
Lalgudi Jayaraman was not his teacher. Lalgudi Jayaraman was another great violinist of the same period, and the two are named together with T N Krishnan as the violin trinity. So Statement I is FALSE.

Step 2: Check Statement II:
S Balachander (1927-1990) was born in Mylapore, Madras, to Sundaram Iyer and Parvathi. He was a famous veena player and also a film director (for example Andha Naal, 1954).
The Tanjore Quartet (Chinnayya, Ponnayya, Sivanandam and Vadivelu) were court musicians and dance masters of Thanjavur. Balachander does not come from that family line. So Statement II is FALSE.

Step 3: Choose the option:
Both statements are false. This is option B. Option A is wrong because neither is true. Options C and D are wrong because each one says one statement is true.

Final Answer:
Both statements are false. \[ \boxed{\text{B. Statements I and II are false}} \]