Angoor (1982 film)

Angoor
Poster
Directed by	Gulzar
Produced by	Jai Singh
Written by	Gulzar
Starring	Sanjeev Kumar Deven Verma Moushumi Chatterjee Padma Chavan C.S.Dubey Yunus Parvez T.P.Jain
Music by	Rahul Dev Burman
Release dates	05 March, 1982 (India)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Angoor (translation: Grape) is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language comedy film starring Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in dual roles, and directed by Gulzar. It is a remake of the 1963 Bengali language comedy film Bhrantibilas that is based on Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali novel by the same name which itself is based on Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors. All characters are innocent and destiny plays the main role in bringing all characters to one place. Most of the other films are generally based on false characters and deliberately make false statements to fool others.^[1][2]

Story

The film is about two pairs of identical twins separated at birth and how their lives go haywire when they meet in adulthood.

Raj Tilak (Utpal Dutt) and his wife (Shammi) are on a trip with their twin sons, both of whom they call Ashok. Since they look the same, they should be called the same, is Mr Tilak's reasoning. As fate would have it, they adopt another set of twins, both of whom they call Bahadur. An unfortunate accident then divides the family, leaving both parents with one child out of each pair of twins.

A few years later, Ashok (Sanjeev Kumar) is married to Sudha (Moushmi Chatterjee) and Bahadur (Deven Verma) is married to Prema (Aruna Irani). They all stay together with Sudha's younger sister Tanu (Deepti Naval). Into their lives enter the other Ashok, a detective novel aficionado, and Bahadur, a bhaang(an Indian concoction containing marijuana) lover. Now there are two Ashoks and two Bahadurs in the same city. This is more than their families, the Jeweller, the Taxi Driver and the Inspector can handle.

Cast

• Sanjeev Kumar as Ashok R. Tilak (Double Role)
• Deven Verma as Bahadur (Double Role)
• Moushmi Chatterjee as Sudha, Ashok's Wife
• Deepti Naval as Tanu, Sudha's Sister
• Aruna Irani as Prema, Bahadur's wife
• Yunus Parvez as Mansoor Miyan, Chedilal's Worker
• C. S. Dubey as Chedilal, Jeweller
• T.P. Jain as Ganeshilal, Diamond Merchant
• Padma Chavan as Alka, Ashok's Friend
• Ram Mohan as Taxi Driver
• Shammi as Ashok's Mother
• Utpal Dutt as Raj Tilak, Ashok's Father
• Col. Trilok Kapoor as Inspector Sinha

Soundtrack

Awards and Nominations

• 30th Filmfare Awards
  • Won: Best Comedian - Deven Verma^[3]
  • Nominated: Best Actor - Sanjeev Kumar

Home Media

The DVD version of the film was released by IndiaWeekly under its own label.^[4]

References

1. ↑ Hasna Mana Hai: Bollywood's best comedies Indiatimes, 27 May 2005.
2. ↑ "Just breathe and reboot". Indian Express. 24 March 2011. 
3. ↑ List of Filmfare Award Winners and Nominations, 1953-2005
4. ↑ "Angoor DVD". IndiaWeekly. Retrieved 20 February 2013. 

External links

• Angoor at the Internet Movie Database

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
Musicals	Gli equivoci (1786) The Boys from Syracuse (1938) The Comedy of Errors (1976) The Bomb-itty of Errors (2000)
Film/TV	The Boys from Syracuse (1940) Bhrantibilas (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) Double Di Trouble (2014)
Related	Comedy of errors Classical unities Gesta Grayorum (1688) The Flying Karamazov Brothers