Idiot (1992 film)
Idiot is a 1992 Hindi drama 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.
| Idiot | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mani Kaul |
| Written by | Anup Singh Hemendra Bhatia Rajeev Kumar |
| Based on | The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Starring | Shah Rukh Khan Ayub Khan-Din |
| Cinematography | Piyush Shah |
| Edited by | Lalitha Krishna |
| Music by | Vikram Joglekar D. Wood |
Release date |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Cast
- Shahrukh Khan as Pawan Raguhajan
- Ayub Khan Din as Prince Miskin
- Mita Vashisht
- Imam Khan
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]
References
- Derek Malcolm (14 July 2011). "Mani Kaul obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
- Holden, Stephen (8 October 1992). "Review/Film Festival; Dostoyevsky's 'Idiot,' by Way of Bombay". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- 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.
- "Shah Rukh Khan's unreleased film Ahamaq to screen at MAMI". 17 October 2016.
- Holden, Stephen (8 October 1992). "Dostoyevsky's Idiot by way of Bombay". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2019.