Bhranti Bilas

Bhranti Bilas
Bhranti Bilas
	File:Bhranti Bilas.jpg
Directed by	Manu Sen
Written by	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Starring	Uttam Kumar; Bhanu Bandopadhyay; Sabitri Chatterjee; Sandhya Roy
Music by	Shyamal Mitra
Release date	1963
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	Rs. 15,000
Box office	Rs. 45,000

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Bhranti Bilas (transl. Illusion of illusion) is a 1963 Bengali-language comedy film based on the 1869 play of the same name by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,^[1] which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. The film was remade in Bollywood thrice as Do Dooni Char , Angoor and Cirkus.^[2]^[3]

Plot[edit]

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[edit]

Uttam Kumar as Chiranjib Chowdhury and Chiranjit Chowdhury
Bhanu Bandopadhyay as Bhakti Kinkar and Shakti Kinkar
Sabitri Chatterjee as Chiranjib's Wife
Sandhya Roy as Bilashini, Chiranjib's sister-in-law
Sabita Bose as Aparajita
Tarun Kumar as Money lender
Chhaya Devi as Chiranjit & Chiranjib's Mother
Bidhayak Bhattacharya as Bosupriyo

References[edit]

↑ "'Bhranti Bilash' and 'Comedy of Errors' - When Bengali cinema drew inspiration from William Shakespeare". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
↑ Rajiva Verma (2006). "Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema". In Poonam Trivedi; Dennis Bartholomeusz (eds.). India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 247–248.
↑ Radhakrishnan, Sruthi (23 April 2018). "400 years later, Shakespeare still remains relevant in Indian cinema". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 December 2018.

External links[edit]

Bhrantibilas on IMDb

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[1] "'Bhranti Bilash' and 'Comedy of Errors' - When Bengali cinema drew inspiration from William Shakespeare". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 June 2021.

[2] Rajiva Verma (2006). "Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema". In Poonam Trivedi; Dennis Bartholomeusz (eds.). India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 247–248.

[3] Radhakrishnan, Sruthi (23 April 2018). "400 years later, Shakespeare still remains relevant in Indian cinema". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 December 2018.

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v t e William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
Characters	Antipholus of Syracuse Antipholus of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Dromio of Ephesus Adriana Luciana Egeon Emilia Solinus
Sources	Menaechmi Amphitryon Apollonius of Tyre
Opera and musicals	Gli equivoci (1786) The Boys from Syracuse (1938) Pozdvižení v Efesu (1943) The Comedy of Errors (1976) The Bomb-itty of Errors (2000)
Film/TV	The Boys from Syracuse (1940) Bhranti Bilas (1963) Do Dooni Char (1968) Angoor (1982) The Comedy of Errors (1983; TV) Big Business (1988) Ulta Palta (1997) Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998) Dam Dama Dam (1998) Ulta Palta (1998) Heeralal Pannalal (1999) Ambuttu Imbuttu Embuttu (2005) Double Di Trouble (2014) Cirkus (2021)
Related	Classical unities Gesta Grayorum (1688) The Flying Karamazov Brothers