Shakespeare Adaptations

Director Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Maqbool' based on Macbeth is more experimental and breaks new grounds in film treatment despite staying within the confines of a commercial cinema. His later creation 'Omkara' (based on Othello) - shows a more Bollywood-esque compromise but is marked by a stunning and award-winning performance by actor Saif Ali Khan.

Omkara Omkara is based on William Shakespeare's 17th century classic , OTHELLO. Regarded as one of the Bard's finest plays about the human condition, it is being brought to life in an Indian milieu for the first time in a mainstream Hindi film, by noted writer director Vishal Bhardwaj. This is his successive Shakespeare effort after the highly…    more      Maqbool Of all the plays penned by the genius bard William Shakespeare, one that seems especially relevant to our times is Macbeth. A tale about primal instincts and emotions, Macbeth deals with ambition, love, violence and death all in one breath. Though there have been film adaptations of Macbeth by filmmakers across the world, little or…    more