Hamlet (1954)

Directed by

Kishore Sahu

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 20m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Hindi film adapts Shakespeare's tragedy. A prince investigates his father's murder and struggles with revenge and madness.

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What happens

Hamlet (Urdu: हेमलेट) is a 1954 Hindi tragedy drama film, produced and directed by Kishore Sahu. The film was a free adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, with Sahu playing Hamlet as well as writing the screenplay, while the dialogue was by Amanat Hilal and B. D. Verma. It was produced by Hindustan Chitra, a production company started by Sahu in 1944. It was Ramesh Naidu's first film as a music composer. The film starred Mala Sinha, Kishore Sahu, Venus Banerji, Kamaljeet and Jankidas. Sahu was influenced by "classic European sources". Though termed a "free adaptation" in the credit roll of the film, Sahu's Hamlet stayed true to the title, its setting and the original names in the play, remaining as close as possible to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet film (1948). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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