Bhrantibilas

Bhrantibilas
Directed by	Manu Sen
Written by	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Starring	Uttam Kumar Bhanu Bandopadhyay Sabitri Chatterjee Sandhya Roy
Music by	Shyamal Mitra
Release dates	1963
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Bhrantibilas is a 1963 Bengali film based on the 1869 play Bhranti Bilas by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. In 1968, the film was remade as a Bollywood musical named Do Dooni Char and remade again in 1982 as Angoor^[1]

Plot

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

• 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

1. Rajiva Verma, "Shakespeare in Hindi Cinema", in Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz (eds.), India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance (New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley, 2006), 247-248

External links

• Bhrantibilas at the Internet Movie Database