Maqbool
Two Adaptations Of Shakespeare’s Macbeth You Can’t Afford To Miss
Maqbool(Disney-Hotstar): Tortured lives, anguished faces, brooding crime and reverberating punishment ....Welcome to the underworld according to music composer turned director Vishal Bhardwaj. From Francis Coppola’s Godfather trilogy to Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya and Company...you’ve probably seen scores of great and not-so-great films on the wages of gangsterism.Maqbool transports us to a threshold of pain and redemption hitherto unknown to Hindi cinema. Because this is Shakespeare’s Macbeth trans-located to Mumbai’s underworld, and because Bharadwaj has selected a | Click Here...
Saluting The Most Talented Khan Of Bollywood, Best Performances of Irrfan Khan
Very few Indian actors have had the privilege of playing such a wide variety of characters. Irrfan Khan’s versatility and his ability to assume new personae with every film are by now legendary. Just last year he was in sterling form in three films Qissa, Piku and Tevar. Here’s looking at some of the most memorable roles of Irrfan since his debut with a cameo in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay in 1988. 1. Warrior (2000): Many Irrfan-o-philes including me still consider this to be Irrfan’s finest. PlayingLafcadia in Asif(Amy) Kapadia’s film about a warrior i | Click Here...
Birthday Special: Shakespeare in Bollywood
Bollywood doesn’t care for literature. And Shakespeare to them is all Greek. Except of course Vishal Bhardwaj who had done two commendable Shakespearean adaptations and has been threatening to do a third for a long time. There are other filmmakers too, ambitious enough to look Shakespeare-wards. Read on. Mehboob’s Khan’s Aan (1952): A lot of this kitschy flamboyant costume drama directed by Mehboob Khan is taken from Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew. The tall tale of royal intrigue and proletariat revenge has a whole plot point of the commoner-h | Click Here...
Vishal Bharadwaj bags Best Music Director Award for this Malyalam film
Vishal Bharadwaj is a multitalented person in the true sense of the term. The man isn’t just known for his creative work as a filmmaker, but is also recognized for being a producer, music composer, screenwriter and a singer. Vishal made his directorial debut with ‘Makdi’ in the year 2002 and he made his debut as a music composer with a children’s film named ‘Abhay’ in 1995. He shot to fame with movies like ‘Maqbool’, ‘Omkara’, which completed 13 years just recently, and ‘Haider’. In the Malyalam film ‘Carbon’, Vishal’s music received the Ke | Click Here...