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Yellamma (2001 Film)
aka: Prophecy, The
- Director
- Mohan Koda
Feature film. Indian re-working of Macbeth set in 1850s India in the time of the Sepoy Mutiny.
Kaliyattam (1998 Film)
aka: Play of God, The
- Director
- Jayaraaj
- Producer
- K. Radhakrishnan
Feature film based on Othello. Set against the background of the Theyyam festival in North Kerala. Kannan Perumalayn and Thamara, the daughter of the village head, fall in love and elope, Thamara defying her...
Samrat Lear (1997 Multimedia, Video)
- Director
- John Russell Brown
Video recording of a Hindi-language adaptation of King Lear by the National School of Drama in New Delhi from a script by Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Chetan Pandit is Lear. A 1-minute clip from the production is...
Rui Ka Bojh (1997 Film)
aka: The Weight of Cotton
- Director
- Subhash Agrawal
Feature film with a plot inspired by King Lear. A self-respecting wise old man decides to divide his property among his family. He settles down with his youngest son and soon realises that without his wealth...
Raja Lear (1993 Video)
- Director
- Sharad Bthuthiadia
A Marathi language adaptation of King Lear directed by Sharad Bthuthiadia.
When Hamlet Went to Mizoram (1990 Film)
- Director
- Pankaj Butalia
Documentary. Mizoram is a small state on the Northeastern border of India, where, J.F. Laldailova, an officer in the British army, introduced the people of Mizoram to Shakespeare, translating his works into...
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (1989 Film)
- Director
- S. Nathan
Feature film with Kabir Ahamed as Hamlet. No further details known (5/2009)
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...
Angoor (1982 Film)
- Director
- Sampooran Singh Gulzar
- Producer
- Sampooran Singh Gulzar; Jai Singh
Bollywood Hindi comedy film version of The Comedy of Errors by Gulzar is ‘a genuinely insightful one’ (the Guardian, 2019). The story is set in Mumbai where Ashok and Bahadur arrive to buy a grape field....
Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981 Film)
aka: Made for Each Other
- Director
- K. Balachander
- Producer
- L.V. Prasad
Feature film. A version of Romeo and Juliet. Vaasu, a South Indian and Sapna, a North Indian, fall in love but are kept apart by the prejudices of caste and language which their families maintain.