Raj Kapoor’s Bobby

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...