Idiot (1992 film)

Idiot
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	;
Release date	8 October 1992;
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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[]

1993 Filmfare Awards: Critics Award For Best Movie

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.

External links[]

Idiot at IMDb
Idiot at AllMovie

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[1] Derek Malcolm (14 July 2011). "Mani Kaul obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

[nyt-2] Holden, Stephen (8 October 1992). "Review/Film Festival; Dostoyevsky's 'Idiot,' by Way of Bombay". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2013.

[Chopra2007-3] 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.

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v t Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869)
Characters	Prince Myshkin Nastasya Filippovna
Films	Wandering Souls (1921) The Idiot (1946) The Idiot (1951) The Idiot (1958) L'Amour braque (1985) Idiot (1992) The Idiot Returns (1999) Down House (2001) The Idiot (2011)
Television	The Idiot (2003)
Opera	The Idiot (2013)