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  1. 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.

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  2. Jwala (1938 Film)

    Director
    Vinayek

    Feature film fantasy about a good general Angar (Chandramohan) who is corrupted by ambition. Echoing Macbeth, Angar is told by the witch Kuntala (Ashalata) that his king (Bulbule) will die and that he will...

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  3. 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....

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  4. 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...

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  5. 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981 Film)

    Director
    Aparna Sen
    Producer
    Sashi Kapoor

    Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...

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  6. Anjuman (1948 Film)

    Director
    Akhtar Hussain
    Producer
    Akhtar Hussain

    Feature film. Indian version of Romeo and Juliet. No further information has been found.

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  7. 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].

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  8. 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.

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  9. Aasha (1957 Film)

    Director
    M.V. Raman

    Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...

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  10. 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...

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