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Citations, references, allusions, and intertextualities with Shakespeare are found everywhere in India. This chapter offers a taxonomy of this diverse range of referencing while attending to the more substantive instances of ‘bitten off’ or modular Shakespeare in Indian films, in which there is a tangential, parodic, or unacknowledged relation to the source. Each of the following films represents differing modes of referencing Shakespeare: Eklavya: The Royal Guard, directed Vinod Vidhu Chopra, 2007; Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola, directed Vishal Bhardwaj, 2013, and Bodyguard directed Siddique, 2011. This chapter traces the evolving cultural trajectory of Shakespeare citations in Hindi cinema.
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Trivedi, P. (2022). Shakespeare in Bits and Bites in Indian Cinema. In: Joubin, A.A., Bladen, V. (eds) Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare. Global Shakespeares. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6_5
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