Onir is clear that he wants to set his Hamlet in contemporary India - either Mumbai or Delhi. “With a modern family, capturing the essence of the drama,” he adds pointing out that Maqbool and Othello had a rural grunge feel which he doesn’t relate to. “The script will need lots of work and development, but I have the idea of fusing magic realism with Shakespeare’s idiom. Though I am not writing the script, I will be closely involved.”That leaves the exciting prospect of casting for parts like Hamlet, Polonius and Ophelia. “I need fantastic actors with the right faces. Like I need an Ophelia with innocence and I am completely stumped on any ideas for her. But I would love Hrithik Roshan to play the part of Hamlet, or maybe Siddharth from Rang De Basanti.”
Hrithik Roshan may have been roped in for a Desi Hamlet if rumors are to be believed. Onir, director of My Brother Nikhil, and Serendipity Films (Ambika Hinduja and Dinesh Vijan), producers of Being Cyrus. Bhavani Iyer, writer of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black are all coming together to make a Bollywood adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Onir is clear that he wants to set his Hamlet in contemporary India - either Mumbai or Delhi. “With a modern family, capturing the essence of the drama,” he adds pointing out that Maqbool and Othello had a rural grunge feel which he doesn’t relate to. “The script will need lots of work and development, but I have the idea of fusing magic realism with Shakespeare’s idiom. Though I am not writing the script, I will be closely involved.”That leaves the exciting prospect of casting for parts like Hamlet, Polonius and Ophelia. “I need fantastic actors with the right faces. Like I need an Ophelia with innocence and I am completely stumped on any ideas for her. But I would love Hrithik Roshan to play the part of Hamlet, or maybe Siddharth from Rang De Basanti.”
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