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  • Masala Shakespeare - The Bard’s Continuing Relevance (2019 Video)

    Jonathan Gil Harris (Professor of English at Ashoka University) discusses his book ‘Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian’ - on adaptations of Shakespeare in Indian cinema - with critic...

  • Shakespeare in India (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Compass: Shakespeare in the World
    Producer
    Maggie Ayre

    Radio broadcast. Nikki Bedi discovers that Shakespeare’s reach extends as far as Bollywood to the slums of Mumbai, where young practitioners are taking the plays and making them fresh for a 21st-century...

  • Haider (2014 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Vishal Bhardwaj

    Bollywood version of Hamlet. Ophelia is a young journalist, Polonious a policeman, Laertes works for a multinational and Hamlet is a philosophy student from Kasmir, the former Himalayan province. The film...

  • Shakespeare Around the Globe: Poonam Trivedi (2012 Radio)

    Series
    Essay, The
    Producer
    Mohini Patel

    Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this first...

  • Life Goes on (2009 Film)

    Director
    Sangeeta Datta

    Feature film telling of the prejudices and Islam-phobia which is still deep-rooted among some sections of immigrant Indians in London. The director sees Life Goes On as a modern retelling of King Lear, for...

  • Two Gentlemen of Valasna, The (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Drama on 3
    Director
    Willi Richards
    Producer
    Roger Elsgood

    Adapted for radio by Roger Elsgood and Willi Richards, The Two Gentlemen Of Valasna relocates Shakespeare’s play to India. Set in the weeks leading up to the 1857 Indian Mutiny, it was recorded in English,...

  • Shakespeare Week (2006 Radio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Week

    The ‘Shakespeare Week’ was a ‘Nikki Bedi Show’ radio special. From 26-30 June 2006, the Asian culture programme hosted by presenter Nikki Bedi devoted its arts and entertainment section to...

  • Omkara (2006 Film)

    Director
    Vishal Bhardwaj
    Producer
    Kumar Mangat

    Feature film. A Bollywood re-working of Othello set against a background of political warfare in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Omikara (Devgan) is a half-caste, gifted chieftan leading a gang employed by the...

  • Richard III: A Bollywood Musical (2003 Video)

    Director
    Serge Tampalini

    Video recording of a Bollywood musical version of Richard III first staged at Murdoch University, Australia in 2003.

  • Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988 Film)

    Director
    Mansoor Khan
    Producer
    Nasir Hussain

    Feature film. A teen romance combining a Romeo and Juliet theme with a pop musical. Dhanraj Singh spent years in prison for killing the man responsible for his sister’s suicide. His family, and the family...