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...TIME: If you're going to do something different, this is the cast for it. Khan: (Laughs.) They're saying it's the World Cup of acting. It's the Kumbh Mela [India's biggest religious festival] with a sadhu [wise man] in every tent...
...TIME: What sort of reaction have you had outside India? Khan: In Toronto, people didn't clap at the end, and we were saying, "Something's wrong; we've done something really bad." But then we realized the effect the film has on people. They love it?I know people who've seen it three times in three days?but it seems like they can't talk about it for a while. Weird...
...TIME: Currently, there seems to be some serious international interest in Bollywood. Khan: Definitely. India is "in" right now, just like Chinese film was two or three years ago. It's the right time to make our mark...
...Bhardwaj has but one feature film to his directorial credit, Makdee, a children's movie about a witch who can turn people into animals. Rather than Bollywood's customary priority of abs, busts and nifty dance steps, he deliberately chose actors with theatrical training for the Macbeth retake. Irrfan Khan plays the violent but vulnerable Maqbool, a killer ultimately consumed by his conscience, and it's a performance that fulfills the 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...
...corner, it's no surprise that Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is eager to keep attention focused on positive news, such as his government's new anticorruption drive. But Kuala Lumpur is having trouble avoiding persistent questions about Malaysian involvement in the dealings of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist pardoned two weeks ago in Pakistan for providing nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran...