Idiot (1992 film)

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Idiot
Directed by Mani Kaul
Written by Anup Singh
Hemendra Bhatia
Rajeev Kumar
Based on The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Starring Shah Rukh Khan
Ayub Khan-Din
CinematographyPiyush Shah
Edited byLalitha Krishna
Music byVikram Joglekar
D. Wood
Release date
  • 8 October 1992 (1992-10-08)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

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.

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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] In 1993, it was not part of the 24th International Film Festival of India but was shown privately to some festival delegates. [4] It was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in October 2016 with the title "Ahamaq". [5]

Reception

According to the New York Times, "it turns a literary masterpiece into a numbing soap opera as incoherent as it is technically crude." [6]

Awards

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