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'''''Idiot''''' is a 1992 [[Hindi]] film based on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s 1869 novel, ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]''.<ref>
'''''Idiot''''' is a 1992 [[Hindi]] film based on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s 1869 novel, ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]''.<ref>
{{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.<ref name=nyt/> In this version of the tale, placed in contemporary [[Mumbai]], Prince Miskin (Khan-Din) is a man whose [[epilepsy]] is mistaken for idiocy.
{{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.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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==Production and release==
==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.<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>
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>
It was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in October 2016 with the title "Ahamaq".<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/shah-rukh-khan-unreleased-film-ahamaq-to-screen-at-mami-3078760/</ref>
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>


==Reception==
==Reception==
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 web |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 |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>
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>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==

Revision as of 13:34, 6 October 2021

Idiot
Directed byMani Kaul
Written byAnup Singh
Hemendra Bhatia
Rajeev Kumar
Based onThe Idiot (1869)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
StarringShah Rukh Khan
Ayub Khan-Din
Music byVikram Joglekar
D. Wood
CinematographyPiyush Shah
Edited byLalitha Krishna
Release date
  • 8 October 1992 (1992-10-08)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

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

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

  1. Derek Malcolm (14 July 2011). "Mani Kaul obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. Holden, Stephen (8 October 1992). "Review/Film Festival; Dostoyevsky's 'Idiot,' by Way of Bombay". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  3. Anupama Chopra (2 October 2007). King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema. Grand Central Publishing. pp. 44–. ISBN 978-0-446-50898-8.
  4. "Shah Rukh Khan's unreleased film Ahamaq to screen at MAMI". 17 October 2016.
  5. Holden, Stephen (8 October 1992). "Dostoyevsky's Idiot by way of Bombay". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2019.

External links

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