[1] It was directed by Mani Kaul and starred Shah Rukh Khan and Ayub Khan-Din.
In this version of the tale, placed in contemporary Mumbai, Prince Miskin (Khan-Din) is a man whose epilepsy is mistaken for idiocy.
The film was first released as a four-part television mini-series on state-run Doordarshan channel in 1991, and despite it outing at debuted at the New York Film Festival in October 1992, it was never commercially released.
[4] It was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in October 2016 with the title "Ahamaq".
[5] According to the New York Times, "it turns a literary masterpiece into a numbing soap opera as incoherent as it is technically crude.