Not a Black Moor but a Brahmin-Christian Moor: Shakespeare's Othello in Early Postcolonial Indian Cinema
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In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago manipulates the Moorish general Othello into killing his Venetian wife Desdemona. The murder signals not only the end of their love story but also the end of the play itself. On the contrary, the black-and-white Indian film Saptapadi (1961, dir. Ajoy Kar) has the lead characters Krishnendu Mukherjee and Rina Brown enact the beginning of Act 5, Scene 2 where Othello kills Desdemona, which ironically ends up marking the starting point of their love story. This paper will contrast the marginalisation of Shakespeare's character of Othello with the multiple privileges enjoyed by Saptapadi's male protagonist Krishnendu.
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société
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