Rohit Shetty’s Angoor With Ranveer Singh and Varun Dhawan Is Now Entitled Cirkus For Copyright Reasons

 From what  I hear  Gulzar is none too happy about his Angoor going into a remake.According to  a source  very close to  the  poet-filmmaker Gulzar Saab feels  remakes are  the road to ruination of art. Be as it may,  producers of the  new Angoor Reliance Entertainment  and  T Series  have now renamed their  project  Cirkus(no, that’s not a spelling error)  and have declared that  their film would be  an adaptation  of  Shakespeare’s A  Comedy Of Errors.

Remaking Angoor apparently entailed  copyright issues. And that’s a laugh. Angoor  was certainly not an  original(neither were  some of  Gulzar Saab’s other masterpieces Parichay ,Koshish, Mausam).  Angoor was actually a remake of  Gulzar’s mentor Bimal Roy’s Do Dooni Chaar.And  both Angoor and  Do Dooni Chaar were  adapted  from  Shakespeare’s  A  Comedy  Of  Errors.

While Do Dooni Chaar starred Kishore Kumar and Asit Sen as  the two out-of-towners whose twins play havoc with their identity, in  Angoor the two sets of  double roles were played by  Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Varma.

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In Cirkus(nee Angoor)  Ranveer Singh and Varun Sharma  will play the two  double roles.

So it’s all about the  correct name-calling  after all. Shakespeare  was wrong when he  wondered what was  in name.

Plenty, it seems.

Subhash K . Jha

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