Word: maqbool
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Lawyer's Wife, the lawyer's ailing father tartly observes, "Voting that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller...
...India's quasi-art films, for example, may allow for the rare scheming woman-as in Maqbool, where the Lady Macbeth role is played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury...