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| name = Dil Farosh<br />
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| director = M. Udvadia<br />
| producer = Excelsior Film Company<br />
| writer = Mehdi Hasan 'Ahsan' <small>(adaptation)</small><br />
| based_on = ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]''<br />
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| starring = M. Udvadia<br>Nargis<br />
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| cinematography = D. D. Dabke<br />
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| studio = Excelsior Film Company<br />
| released = 1927<br />
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| country = India<br />
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'''''Dil Farosh''''' also called '''''Merchant Of Hearts''''', is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1927|1927]] [[Indian cinema]]'s [[silent film]] directed by M. Udvadia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dil Farosh|url=http://www.gomolo.com/dil-farosh-movie/19831|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Produced by Excelsior Film Company it has been cited as one of the earliest adaptations of a [[Shakespeare]] play into an Indian film.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Martin Procházka|author2=Andreas Höfele|author3=Hanna Scolnicov|author4=Michael Dobson|title=Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpJlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA346|accessdate=30 April 2015|date=12 December 2013|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-1-61149-461-7|pages=346–}}</ref> Based on ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', it was written for the [[Parsi theatre]] by Mehdi Hasan 'Ahsan' in 1900, and called ''Merchant of Hearts''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Craig Dionne|author2=Parmita Kapadia|title=Bollywood Shakespeares|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdNCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|accessdate=28 April 2015|date=27 March 2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-37556-8|pages=22–}}</ref> The stage adaptation by the New Alfred Company had Sorabji Ogra as Shylock and "achieved great popularity" at the beginning of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Poonam Trivedi|author2=Dennis Bartholomeusz|title=India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5lKp1XE2OQC&pg=PA270|accessdate=30 April 2015|year=2005|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-881-8|pages=270–}}</ref> The film's cast included the director Udwadia with Nargis, K. B. Athavale and Saiyed Umer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dilfarosh|url=http://www.citwf.com/film88450.htm|website=Complete Index to Worl Film|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* K. B. Athvale<br />
* Nargis<br />
* M. Udwadia<br />
* Saiyed Umer<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id =0391083|title=Dil Farosh (1927) }}<br />
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