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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.
Bollywood's India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India by Rachel Dwyer (Reaktion Books, 2014), 296 pages, ISBN: 978-1780232638 (paperback), £17.95 About the reviewer: Dr Deimantas...
Feature film. Indian version of Romeo and Juliet. No further information has been found.
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...
Feature film. Indian re-working of Macbeth set in 1850s India in the time of the Sepoy Mutiny.
Film of a stage performance of a version of King John.
Fiction film setting Romeo and Juliet as a story of North American tribes where the Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. Perhaps the first feature film to appropriate a Shakespeare story. The Vitagraph...
Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip by Kush Varia. (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, January 2013), 126 Pages. ISBN: 978-1906660154 (paperback), £14 About the reviewer: Dr Iain Robert Smith is...
India produces more films per year than any other nation, yet only a smattering of these relate to Shakespeare. Dr Deana Rankin, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, looks at recent...
2012. GB. DVD. 915 minutes. Network DVD. Certificate 15. Price: £50.40 About the Author: Martin Carter is a film lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a regular contributor to Vertigo magazine and...
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