Word: maqbool
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...millions of dollars have been donated to the tsunami victims. Now it is the responsibility of government officials to use those funds properly. They must take care of their countries' children and save them from human trafficking and sexual abuse. Murad Maqbool Karachi...
...really need it. Cary J. Colabrese Siena, Italy Millions of dollars have been donated to the tsunami victims. Now it is the responsibility of government officials to use those funds properly. They must take care of their countries' children and save them from human trafficking and sexual abuse. Murad Maqbool Karachi We are still vulnerable to the vagaries of nature. We can fly into space for recreation, but we cannot bring our immediate environment under complete control. Still, the tremendous expression of kindness and sympathy for the victims is encouraging. Perhaps the tsunami disaster is a blessing in disguise...
...Bollywood's turn. In director Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool, Macbeth has been turned into a Bombay Mob hit man tempted to kill his sadistic don for the don's disloyal mistress?the incarnation of Lady Macbeth. It may be possible to imagine three cackling witches in India's teeming megalopolis, but Bhardwaj chooses to replace them with a pair of corrupt, soothsaying cops who get their jollies playing all sides in the bloody gangland rivalries...
...Maqbool is the best evidence yet that fresh blood is pumping vigorously in Bollywood: 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...
...India's commercial-film factories have a creaky tradition of taking the premises of Hollywood blockbusters?Ghost, Reservoir Dogs and Species?and twisting them into virtually interchangeable, all-singing-all-dancing musicals. In the past, Shakespeare might have been just another vein of material. But in Maqbool, Bhardwaj has jettisoned Bollywood conventions to make a film that has claustrophobia, menace, drama, a fresh romantic twist and that rarest of Bollywood accomplishments, genuine tragedy...