Angoor (1982)

Director
Gulzar

Main cast
Sanjeev Kumar; Deven Verma; Moushumi Chatterjee; Aruna Irani; Deepti Naval

Genres
Comedy

Description
Angoor(Hindi: अंगूर, translation Grape) is a hindi comedy film directed by Gulzar. It is a remake of the 1963 Bengali comedy film Bhrantibilas that is based on Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali play by the same name which itself is based on Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.


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