

Gertrude drinks the poison intended for Hamlet, Hamlet kills his step-father and succumbs to the wounds received.Īs reported by Peter Morris, Khoon Ka Khoon was a "recording of a stage production", Modi filmed it using two cameras as the play was being staged. He has a play staged denouncing his mother and uncle. Hamlet, unwilling to believe his mother's involvement is in a quandary and pretends to be insane. The film stays close to the play, with Hamlet's dead father wanting Hamlet to punish the people responsible for his death. Nair, as one of "21 most wanted missing Indian cinema treasures". The film has been cited by National Film Archive of India founder P K. Khoon Ka Khoon was a "filmed version of a stage performance of the play" with Sohrab Modi as Hamlet and Naseem Banu as Ophelia. The other star cast included Shamshadbai, Ghulam Hussain, Obali Mai, Fazal Karim and Eruch Tarapore. Starring Sohrab Modi, Khoon Ka Khoon was also the debut in films of Naseem Banu who played Ophelia. The story and script were by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Credited as "the man who brought Shakespeare to the Indian screen", it was Modi's debut feature film as a director. Directed by Sohrab Modi under his Stage Film Company banner, it is cited as one of the earliest talkie versions of this play. Blood for Blood) also called Hamlet is the first Hindi/ Urdu 1935 sound film adaptation of the Shakespearen play Hamlet.
