Beautiful. Offbeat. Male centric.
The storyline is quite familiar. An acclaimed creative writer finds his muse in a mujra dancer and dies in her house, much to the irritation of his wife.
Art X commercial market, Home X Kotha, Wife X The Other Woman.
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I have been looking for some movies that are based on well-known plays. So far I could find only these:
Macbeth [English] - Maqbool [Hindi] -Throne of Blood [Japanese]
Hamlet Othello [English] - Kaliyattam [Malayalam] - Omkara [Hindi]
King Lear[English] - Gunasundari Katha [Telugu] - Ran [Japanese]
Romeo and Juliet [English]- Reshma Aur Shera [Hindi]- Chicken Rice War [Chinese]
Midsummer Night’s Dream - Oh My Goddess[Japanese]
Antony and Cleopatra [English] - Kannaki [Malayalam]
Comedy of Errors[English]- Angoor [Hindi]- Ulta Palta [Telugu]
Hamlet [English] - Gamlet [Russian] - Kadamayin Ellai [Tamil] -Khoon Khoon [Hindi]-Hamlet Goes Business in the USA[Finnish]- The Bad Sleep Well [Japanese]
Glass Menagerie [English] -Akale [Malayalam]
Can anyone help me with more of these? And the list need not be restricted to Shakespeare or English. It would also be helpful if you can tell me where are these movies available.
Thanks in advance.
Went for a Telugu movie after a long time…….Godavari.
We should have seleted a better theatre with a better screen. That too when we had spend Rs.100 [That's still a hefty amount for movie tickets in Hyderbad] and already got some very poor service from the great PVR Theatre! But the movie experience made me forget that I had to write some real bad comments in their feedback form.
The movie: Yes, light, breezy,romantic. And there is the picturesque backdrop of Godavari whipping up an idyllic nostalgia for the “uncorrupted” countryside, peppered with images of Hyderabad cityscape, thankfully, not in a judgemental opposition.
Many of the story threads with which the movie started were forgotten by the middle of the movie…like the hero forgets that his mission is to become a politician, the poor boy who gets into the yatch to avenge forgets his aim as well. Factional political violence is introduced in the plot but had to be somehow wound up etc etc. The brightest point of the movie is the lively motley, including talking animals with a real good sense of humour, aboard who enliven the plot. But most of them are forgotten once love starts blooming and that’s where the movie begins to drag…. and drag. But I would want to go back home with images of the talking dogs, witty dialogues, some attempts - though poor - to address caste in everyday life, a non-traditional heroine etc. etc. Thanks, Director Shekar Kammula
Well, I’m accused of making money out of the debate on reservation. For a change, let me post something different [to make more money? ;)].
I went to watch Fanaa, primarily to see Kajol……but there were many surprises in hold. And indeed they all left a very good impression together. Of course, I did miss my poet-friend Sukhvinder while the hero and heroine conversed in shayaries. And yes, there is lots of mushy romanticism and unrealism to satiate anyone.
I liked the movie for the beautiful Kashmir valley, for making a terrorist the hero, the character of Malini Tyagi that Taboo played and for the big surprise that the theatre in Hyderabad where I watched it had pieces of paper to be blown in the air for Amir and Kajol in equal amounts……good return after a break for marriage!ÂÂ