Amazon Quiz: This is the side view of a fort in which city, also featured in a famous Satyajit Ray movie?

Amazon Quiz (May 31, 2022): This is the side view of a fort in which city, also featured in a famous Satyajit Ray movie?

The options are: 

Jodhpur

Jaipur

Jaisalmer

Udaipur

Answer: Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer Fort is located in Rajasthan-the largest state of India. It is also reportedly the second oldest fort in Rajasthan and was built in 1156 AD by the Rajput Rawal Jaisal.

The materials used to build the fort compliments its location in the desert. It stands in the sandy expanse of the great Thar Desert on the Trikuta Hill. The sandstone walls seem to change colour with every sunset and sunrise in Rajasthan.

The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote the ‘Sonar Kella’, a detective novel, based on the fort and he later filmed it here. The film became a classic and a large number of tourists from Bengal and around the world visit the fort annually to experience for themselves the world that Ray portrayed in the movie.

The Jaisalmer fort was also reportedly included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee roughly a decade ago. Other forts of Rajasthan also made it to the list. These include Amber Fort, Chittor Fort, Gagron Fort, Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbalgarh and Ranthambore fort.

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