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Bhranti Bilas

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Bhranti Bilas
Directed byManu Sen
Written byIshwar Chandra Vidyasagar
StarringUttam Kumar
Bhanu Bandopadhyay
Sabitri Chatterjee
Sandhya Roy
Music byShyamal Mitra
Release date
1963
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Bhranti Bilas (Template:Lang-bn) is a 1963 Bengali film based on the 1869 play Bhranti Bilas by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. In 1968, the film was remade as a Bollywood musical named Do Dooni Char and remade again in 1982 as Angoor[1]

Plot

Although the original play was set in an unspecified, but distant past, the film relocates the story to modern day India. The film tells the story of a Bengali merchant from Kolkata and his servant who visit a small town for a business appointment, but, whilst there, are mistaken for a pair of locals, leading to much confusion.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Rajiva Verma, "Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema", in Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz (eds.), India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance (New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley, 2006), 247-248