![]() Performed first in Calcutta and Bombay in the 1770s as entertainment to the early traders, eventually made a staple of an educational system dictated by colonial policy, and soon after translated into Indian languages and played on stage in Calcutta, Bombay, and other urban centers, early Hindi film remakes of Shakespeare were adaptations of the well-known Parsi theater productions. ![]() 1 The history of Shakespeare in India is itself a fairly long one. ![]() ![]() Although the 1965 Merchant Ivory production, Shakespeare Wallah, sets up Hindi cinema as a cultural form that is radically different from and in competition with Shakespearean theater, the genre does have a long history of engagement with the works of William Shakespeare. ![]()
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