Haider (2014)
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Aditya Nimbalkar
- Vikas Shorey
- Chandradeep Singh Rathore
- Mehul Mittra
- Basharat Peer
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- William Shakespeare
- Gulzar
- Vishal Bhardwaj
Rating: 7.234/10 by 220 users
Alternative Title:
Haider - Auge um Auge - DE
Country:
India
Language:
हिन्दी
Runtime: 02 hour 30 minutes
Budget: $7,000,000
Revenue: $11,500,000
Plot Keyword: death of father, revenge, kashmir conflict, hamlet, avenge
As a Shakespearean actor, I can tell you this film is the BEST adaptation of one of his plays I have ever seen. It is in the same class as Kurasawa's RAN. It is a brilliantly written screenplay, and both directed and performed at the very highest level. Bhardwaj has taken quite a bit of liberty with the sequence and story line, but not so much that it is unrecognizable from the Bard's work. Even the name of the mysterious revolutionary, Roohdaar means "spirit" in Hindi - or ghost. Much more importantly, Bhardwaj has used the play as a tool to relate and comment on a dark period in the history of the animosity between India and Pakistan. And like Kurasawa, he blatantly rails against revenge and war.
