• Manik Ahuja

Eminent Indian filmmaker, Vishal Bhardwaj, has garnered worldwide critical acclaim for his Shakespearean trilogy. He has masterfully adapted Shakespeare's Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet to the locus of the Bollywood film, creating Maqbool, Omkara and Haider, respectively. While there have been works by scholars which have looked at Bhardwaj's films for their adaptational qualities, there have been none that extensively focus on how his films foreground the conflicts present in Indian society. Bhardwaj's films prove how the inherent universality and complexity of Shakespeare's plays are a perfect site for the inner conflicts and complexities present in Indian society. Issues like the politics of gender and ethnic performativity and casteism in the Indian milieu are imbibed within the narratives of Bhardwaj's films. This paper will attempt to see Bhardwaj's Shakespearean trilogy through the scope of film theory and cultural studies to study how his films use the context of Shakespeare's plays to highlight these problematic facets of Indian society.

Gender performativity, politics of ethnicity, Shakespeare adaptations, caste, Caste.

"Indianised Shakespeare: A Study of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Use of Shakespeare’s Plays in His Portrayal of the Indian Social Milieu", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no.674-679, June-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706122.pdf

"Indianised Shakespeare: A Study of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Use of Shakespeare’s Plays in His Portrayal of the Indian Social Milieu", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 6, page no. pp674-679, June-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1706122.pdf