Bollywood's take on Shakespeare is still one of the best adaptations out there

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Dear filmmakers: If you're going to remake an old story, you better damn well do it right.

That isn't a targeted statement so much as a PSA (though it stings freshly of ABC's abominable Dirty Dancing), and a direct product of the fact that I was spoiled in 2006 by Omkara, an Indian film version of Othello.

Omkara was the second Shakespearian endeavor from director Vishal Bhardwaj, who released Maqbool in 2003, based on Macbeth. Both films — and 2014's Haider, based on Hamlet — transpose the Bard's classics to regional India, and Omkara remains a stunning retelling of a world-renown story that is anything but old. Read more...

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Bollywood's take on Shakespeare is still one of the best adaptations out there Bollywood's take on Shakespeare is still one of the best adaptations out there Reviewed by mimisabreena on Sunday, May 28, 2017 Rating: 5

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