Do Dooni Char

This article is about the 1968 film. For the unrelated 2010 film, see Do Dooni Chaar.

Do Dooni Char
Directed by	Debu Sen
Produced by	Bimal Roy
Written by	Gulzar
Starring	Kishore Kumar Asit Sen Sudha Rani Tanuja Rashid Khan
Music by	Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Release dates	1968
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Do Dooni Char is a 1968 Bollywood musical, which is a loose remake of the 1963 Bengali film, Bhrantibilas. Both films are loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.^[1]

Plot

When a banker and his assistant head to a small town on a business trip, they are mistaken for a merchant and his servant who live in the town, causing much confusion.

Cast

Kishore Kumar as Sandeep
Tanuja as Anju
Iftekhar as Police Inspector
Asit Sen as Sevak
Rashid Khan
Surekha as Suman
Sudha Rani as Pyari

References

↑ Rajiva Verma, "Shakespeare in Indian Cinema: Appropriation, Assimilation and Engagement", The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 12 2012, 90

External links

Do Dooni Char at the Internet Movie Database
Do Dooni Char at Rotten Tomatoes

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

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