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Haider review
- 10/1/2014 12:04:12 PM
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Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, TabuDirection: Vishal BhardwajGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 41 minutes
Story: Haider's uncle kills his father and marries his mother. Can Haider resolve his dilemma - to be or not to be revengeful?
Review: So, Haider is a brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet where a new character - Kashmir - joins the drama's kings and queens. Vishal Bhardwaj's Kashmir isn't shikaras and Shammi Kapoor though. Set in 1995, amidst militancy and martial rule, this Kashmir is gray smoke and brown trees, frozen waters and fires glowing angrily on a lake.
Dr. Hilal Meer, to his wife Ghazala's (Tabu) resentment, brings home a militant for treatment. Someone sneaks and the doctor's 'disappeared', leaving Ghazala 'half-widow' - and half-bride, Hilal's brother Khurram (Kay Kay) literally dancing attention on his beautiful bhabhi-jaan. As Ghazala giggles, her son Haider (Shahid) arrives and Hamlet - a young man driven to madness between grief for his father, anger for his uncle and a strange longing for his mother - begins.
But Bhardwaj's brilliance - don't miss Haider on 'chutzpah versus AFSPA', or his describing Kashmir between India and Pakistan with, 'Hum hain ki hum nahin?' - stretches beyond a beautiful re-telling. Vishal fires up his Hamlet by skillfully fusing personal anguish with political clash, where the violent dilemma of Kashmir - to free or not to free? - makes Haider even headier.
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