The five-day film festival featuring the movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare concluded with the screening of a Bollywood movie Angoor. The movie was screened at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhavan here on Tuesday. The fest was organised by the Chhavi series of classical cinema, Bharat Bhavan.
Angoor is a 1982 Bollywood Hindi comedy film. It is based on Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors and is still considered one of Bollywood's best comedies. In-charge of the fest, Prem Shankar Shukla said, “The reason for grading this movie as the 'best comedy film' of the bollywood is that this is the only film where situation-based comedy is seen. All characters are innocent and destiny plays the main role in bringing all characters at one place. Most of the other films are generally based on false characters and deliberately make false statements to fool others.”
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 bhang lover. Now there are two Ashoks and two Bahadurs in the same city. This is more than their families, the Jeweller, the Taxi Driver, the Inspector can handle. The movie watchers of the city enjoyed watching the evergreen stars of Bollywood once again on big screen. It was Shakespearial treat as well for the literature lovers.