Starring: Irfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Piyush Mishra, Masumi Makhija, Ajay Gehi
Maqbool takes its emotional content beyond any other film from the genre because this is Shakespeare's Macbeth translocated to Mumbai's underworld and because Vishal Bharadwaj has selected a dream cast to portray his nightmarish world of crime and retribution.
Maqbool lays open a whole new universe of passion play unexplored in the original text.
Bharadwaj reveals the politics of lust and passion with a confidence seldom witnessed in Hindi cinema.
Hence the king from Shakespeare's story becomes a doddering paunchy underworld kingpin Abbaji (Pankaj Kapur) and Lady Macbeth becomes Nimmi (Tabu), his companion, whose passion for Abbaji's most trusted lieutenant Maqbool (Irfan Khan) rips her life, womb and conscience apart. |
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