India 2003
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Camera: Hemant Chaturvedi
Script: Abbas Tyrewala, Vishal Bhardwaj
Editor: Aarif Sheikh
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Music: Vishal Bhardwaj
Sound: Robert Taylor
Distributer: Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Lenght: 134 Min.
Format: 35 mm
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <

No other Shakespeare play was so often made into a gangster film than ”The Tragedie of Macbeth”. Here we have an extremely stylish Hindi version with many unique ideas – the witches are policemen, for instance, which fits the genre perfectly. This goes for the whole thing: an act of devotion to the greatest of all Elizabethan dramatists (who Viśāl Bhārdvāj goes on to worship twice more in his films, although not as good as here): Maqbūl is, first and foremost, a blisteringly brutal, gangster film with elements of musical Bollywood. Remember: No law is as iron as Indian commercial cinema – the local underworld`s favourite for money-laundering.