• Source: Khoon Ka Khoon

khoon" target="_blank">Khoon Ka khoon" target="_blank">Khoon (transl. Blood for Blood), also called Hamlet, is the first Hindi/Urdu 1935 sound film adaptation of the Shakespearen play Hamlet. Directed by Sohrab Modi under his Stage Film Company banner, it is cited as one of the earliest talkie versions of this play. Credited as "the man who brought Shakespeare to the Indian screen", it was Modi's debut feature film as a director. The story and script were penned by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Starring Modi, khoon" target="_blank">Khoon Ka khoon" target="_blank">Khoon was also the debut in films of Naseem Banu who played Ophelia. The other star cast included Shamshadbai, Ghulam Hussain, Obali Mai, Fazal Karim and Eruch Tarapore. The film has been cited by National Film Archive of India founder P K. Nair, as one of "21 most wanted missing Indian cinema treasures".




Plot


The film stays close to the play, with Hamlet's father's ghost wanting Hamlet to punish the people responsible for his death. Hamlet, unwilling to believe his mother's involvement, is in a quandary and pretends to be insane. He has a play staged denouncing his mother and uncle. Gertrude drinks the poison intended for Hamlet, while Hamlet kills his step-father and succumbs to the wounds received.




Cast


Sohrab Modi as Hamlet
Naseem Banu as Ophelia
Shamshadbai as Gertrude
Ghulam Hussain
Obali Mai
Fazal Karim
Eruch Tarapore
Ghulam Mohiyuddin
Shamshad
Rampiary
Gauhar
B. Pawar




Production



As reported by Peter Morris, khoon" target="_blank">Khoon Ka khoon" target="_blank">Khoon was a "recording of a stage production", Modi filmed it using two cameras as the play was being staged. The play was a mix of Elizabethan costumes for the main leads, with a mixture of Western stage and Indian costumes for other characters in the play. Modi decided to film the play shot by shot as in the staging of the play. Mehdi Ahsan, a known writer of the Parsi theatre had earlier adapted the play for the silent film khoon" target="_blank">Khoon-e-Nahak (1928), before staging it for Modi. He apparently stated that he had to alter the Shakesperean plays to suit the Indian audience's "way of thinking".
Director Modi asked Shamshadbai, Naseem Banu's mother, to play to play the role of Gertrude (Hamlet's mother), in order to take the pressure off the young Naseem during shooting.




Box office and reception


khoon" target="_blank">Khoon Ka khoon" target="_blank">Khoon, which was the first sound version of a Shakespeare play was not a success at the box office. However, Modi's film was appreciated mainly for the Urdu dialogues, the "quality of the play" and his acting. Modi's acting was noted as a performance dominating the film.




Soundtrack


The music was provided by Kanhaiya Parwar with lyrics by Mehndi Hassan Ahmed.




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References






External links


khoon" target="_blank">Khoon Ka khoon" target="_blank">Khoon at IMDb

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