| Directed by | Mani Kaul |
|---|---|
| Written by | Anup Singh Hemendra Bhatia Rajeev Kumar
|
| Starring | Shah Rukh Khan Ayub Khan-Din |
| Cinematography | Piyush Shah |
| Edited by | Lalitha Krishna |
| Music by | Vikram Joglekar D. Wood
|
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi
|
Idiot is a 1992 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel, The Idiot.[1] 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.
Cast
- Shahrukh Khan
- Ayub Khan Din as Prince Miskin
- Imam Khan
- Mita Vashisht
Production and release
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.[2][3] It was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in October 2016 with the title "Ahamaq".[4]
Reception
According to the New York Times, "it turns a literary masterpiece into a numbing soap opera as incoherent as it is technically crude."[5]
Awards
References
- ↑ Mani Kaul obituary(14 July 2011). Retrieved 2013-12-21.
- ↑ Review/Film Festival; Dostoyevsky's 'Idiot,' by Way of Bombay. The New York Times(8 October 1992). Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ↑ King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Grand Central Publishing(2 October 2007). ISBN 978-0-446-50898-8
- ↑ Shah Rukh Khan's unreleased film Ahamaq to screen at MAMI(17 October 2016).
- ↑ Dostoyevsky's Idiot by way of Bombay. The New York Times(8 October 1992). Retrieved 11 December 2019.
External links
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