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{{Infobox film<br />
| location = India<br />
| name = Idiot<br />
| image = <br />
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| director = [[Mani Kaul]]<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = [[Anup Singh (filmmaker)|Anup Singh]]<br>Hemendra Bhatia<br>Rajeev Kumar<br />
| narrator = <br />
| based_on = {{based on |''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'' (1869)|[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]}}<br />
| starring = [[Shah Rukh Khan]]<br>[[Ayub Khan-Din]]<br />
| music = [[Vikram Joglekar]]<br>[[D. Wood]]<br />
| cinematography = Piyush Shah<br />
| editing = Lalitha Krishna<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|1992|10|08|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 165 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
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'''''Idiot''''' is a 1992 [[Hindi]] film based on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s 1869 novel, ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]''.<ref><br />
{{cite web| title = Mani Kaul obituary |work= The Guardian|author=Derek Malcolm|author-link=Derek Malcolm| url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/14/mani-kaul-obituary |date=14 July 2011| access-date = 2013-12-21}}</ref> It was directed by [[Mani Kaul]] and starred [[Shah Rukh Khan]] and [[Ayub Khan-Din]]. The film debuted at the [[New York Film Festival]] in October 1992. In this version of the tale, placed in contemporary [[Mumbai]], Prince Miskin (Khan-Din) is a man whose [[epilepsy]] is mistaken for idiocy.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]]<br />
* [[Ayub Khan Din]] as Prince Miskin<br />
* [[Imam Khan]]<br />
* [[Mita Vashisht]]<br />
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==Production and release==<br />
The film was first released as a four-part television mini-series on state-run [[Doordarshan]] channel in 1991, and despite it outing at debuted at the [[New York Film Festival]] in October 1992, it was never commercially released.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |title=Review/Film Festival; Dostoyevsky's 'Idiot,' by Way of Bombay |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DD1430F93BA35753C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |last=Holden |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=8 October 1992 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="Chopra2007">{{cite book|author=Anupama Chopra|author-link=Anupama Chopra|title=King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cbk4AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT44|date=2 October 2007|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|isbn=978-0-446-50898-8|pages=44–}}</ref><br />
It was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in October 2016 with the title "Ahamaq".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/shah-rukh-khan-unreleased-film-ahamaq-to-screen-at-mami-3078760/|title = Shah Rukh Khan's unreleased film Ahamaq to screen at MAMI|date = 17 October 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
According to the New York Times, "it turns a literary masterpiece into a numbing soap opera as incoherent as it is technically crude."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |title=Dostoyevsky's Idiot by way of Bombay |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/08/movies/review-film-festival-dostoyevsky-s-idiot-by-way-of-bombay.html |website=The New York Times |date=8 October 1992 |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
* [[38th Filmfare Awards|1993 Filmfare Awards]]: [[Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie|Critics Award For Best Movie]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* {{IMDb title|0104478|Idiot}}<br />
* {{Amg movie|146457|Idiot}}<br />
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