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What’s playing at four in the afternoon?: Indian Flute – Timbaland and Magoo...
...TIME: Was it daunting playing an Indian Macbeth? Khan: Actually, I didn't read the play for the role. I know it. But I wanted to approach the script as a separate piece of work...
...Bhardwaj's extraordinary adaptation works because the themes of ambition and contrition, politicking and deception fit seamlessly into modern Indian life. "You can place this story anywhere," Bhardwaj says, "in the army, in a bank, in journalism. It's a vicious, furious, bleak story. It's human." But Bhardwaj chose not a bank or newsroom but the Muslim underworld, and that imbues the film with urban slickness and the knife-edge insecurity of dog-eat-dog violence...
...promise Khan demonstrated in 2001's The Warrior. Pankaj Kapoor as the paunchy Mafia don borrows heavily (and successfully) from Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Bollywood grandees Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah play the clairvoyant cops; both are equally known these days for their roles in other fusion Indian films, such as Monsoon Wedding and Bombay Boys (Shah) and East is East and The Mystic Masseur (Puri...
...Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in pre-independence India, she dabbled in painting (and amateur theater, left) but earned worldwide fame as a novelist. Her richly detailed story of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls for an Indian princess became a best seller and, in 1984, an HBO mini-series...