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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...
Twelfth Night (2012 Video)
- Director
- Ali Kumar
Video recording of a musical version of Twelfth Night staged at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe season. Performed by the Company Theatre from Mumbai and spoken in Hindi.
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...
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...
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.
Heer Raanji (1970 Film)
aka: Rhanjha and Juliet
- Director
- Chetan Anand
Feature film. Punjab version of Romeo and Juliet. While attending a wedding Dido Ranjha falls in love with Heer Saleti who is already married. Their families are long-standing enemies and determine to...
Do Dooni Char (1968 Film)
- Director
- Debu Sen
- Producer
- Bimal Roy
Feature film. A musical version of The Comedy of Errors. No further details known [6/2008].
Saptapadi (1961 Film)
- Director
- Ajoy Kar
Melodrama. During World War II, Krishnendu Mukerjee, a priest, is brought a wounded woman whom he recognises as Rina Brown, an Anglo-Indian and his former lover. In flashback he recalls his college days...