Angoor

Synopsis

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. There is a photo of a yogi purported to be Shakespeare at the beginning and and end of the film.

Language

Hindi

Country

India

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1982

Duration

170 mins

Credits

Director

Sampooran Singh Gulzar

Producer

Jai Singh; Sampooran Singh Gulzar

Cinematographer

M. Sampat

Music

Rahuli Dev Burman

Art Direction

Ajit Banerjee

Cast

Aruna Irani	Prema
Deepti Naval	Tanu
Deven Verma	Bahadur
Moushumi Chatterjee	Sudha A. Tilak
Sanjeev Kumar	Ashok. R. Tilak

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Comedy of Errors, The

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Bollywood

Notes

Notes

English subtitles.
Out of distribution, but can be bought online: http://rahulandi.com/angoor-dvd/

Reviews

Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 145-6. entry 589).

Production Company

Name

AR Movies

Archive

Name

Folger Shakespeare Library

Email

reference@folger.edu

Web

http://www.folger.edu External site opens in new window

Phone

(202) 544 4600

Fax

(202) 544 4623

Address

201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington
DC 20003
USA

Distributor

Name

Retail outlets