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FILMI CLUB #031: Maqbool on 23rd February 2013

posted 11 years ago by sadfilmophile
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FILMI CLUB FILM #031: Maqbool on 23rd February 2013

vikade’s film choice for his wild card weekend
(Again, many thanks vikade for running the club for the month of January)

Title: Maqbool
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Year: 2003
Running Time: 132 minutes
Country: India
Language: Hindi | Urdu
Colour: Colour

Credits:
Cast: Irfan Khan | Tabu | Pankaj Kapoor | Om Puri | Naseeruddin Shah
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Writing credits:
Abbas Tyrewala (screenplay) andVishal Bhardwaj (screenplay)
Vishal Bhardwaj (dialogue)
William Shakespeare (play "Macbeth")

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IMDb link:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0379370

Film links:
Sorry but neither of these online versions have English subs,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxBL5AULtAA
Or, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supf8H-mvPw

Place for the discussion:
Here, on this page.
(I am no longer going to host the thread on the Indian Cinema board as past threads get deleted by admins, who keep the board down to a maximum of 30 or so pages. Also, this way, other people interested in the film will come across our discussion easily.)

Time for the discussion:
starting from 23rd February 2013.

The discussion is open to everyone so join in and have fun!
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Previous discussion threads,
FILM #022: Omkara (1 Dec 2012) Week 1:The films that made them stars (1990s-current times)
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/207388600?d=207388600#207388600
FILM #023: Dil Se (From the Heart) (8 Dec 2012) Week 2:The films that made them stars (1990s-current times)
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/207940940?d=207940940#207940940
FILM #024: Macchis (Matches) (15 Dec 2012) Week 3:The films that made them stars (1990s-current times)
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/207671372?d=208235203#208235203
FILM #025: The Warrior (22 Dec 2012) Week 4:The films that made them stars (1990s-current times)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295682/board/nest/210445169
FILM #026: Naach (Dance) (29 Dec 2012) Week 5:The films that made them stars (1990s-current times)
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/208587784?d=208587784#208587784
FILM #027: Deewar (The Wall) (5 Jan 2013) Week 1: Yash Chopra Month
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/209109204?d=209109204#209109204
FILM #028: Ittefaq (Coincidence) (Jan 12 Jan 2013) Week 2: Yash Chopra Month
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/209262691?d=209262691#209262691
FILM #029: Waqt (Time)(19 Jan 2013) Week 3: Yash Chopra Month
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/209751400?d=209751400#209751400
FILM #030: Trishul (26 Jan 2013) Week 4: Yash Chopra Month
www.imdb.com/board/bd0000033/nest/210058778?d=210058778#210058778

[–] sadfilmophile 11 years ago

Apologies to one and all, I wrote out this long post yesterday or the day before (I forget) but then completely lost it. I'm pretty sure I pressed 'post' and not 'preview' but that hardly helps as I purged my web history yesterday.

Anyhow, I will try again when I get the time, meanwhile, please discuss amongst yourselves what you thought of the film.

[–] elanor-3 11 years ago

Sorry to all. I did not find the energy to re-watch a tragedy of which I do not even like in the versions directed by Roman Polanski (1971) or Orson Welles (1948).

I hugely like the powerful ingenious version directed by Akira Kurosawa "Throne of Blood (1957)". But Maqbool is nothing like "Throne of Blood". To me Maqbool feels as lifeless and artificial as the Polanski and Welles versions. To be honest, to me faithful Maqbool feels far weaker than these two other versions that are also faithful to the original.

In contrast to Maqbool Omkara exudes for me more power and individuality, for these qualities I like Omkara better, though as Shakespeare play I dislike Othello far more than Macbeth.

And as a gangster film Maqbool doesn't work for me as well. I definitely prefer the gangster films Company or Satya, even Sarkar.

--- each brain develops its own preferences ---