Stages to Screens- Haider

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Haider is a crime drama that was written, produced and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj in 2014. It stars Shahid Kapoor and Tabu as the lead roles. Set in the Kashmir conflicts of 1995, Haider is a modern day adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Haider, the protagonist, is a young poet who returns to Kashmir at the peak of the conflict to reach to the depth of his father’s disappearance. He ends up being tugged into the politics of the state. 

Hamlet consists of a lot of blank verses that prove to be extremely impactful and pivotal. Haider certainly bores the same power when it comes to blank verses. The play and the movie both have notable references and commentary about the prevailing social conditions. They end at a very open cliff, leaving the audience to interpret on their own; it also plays on psychological levels. The most striking similarity between the play and the movie, according to me, has to be the chilling gravedigger scene.

The primary differences between the play and the movie have to be the setting, character names and eras. Due to these variations the plot naturally diverts in the movie. In the play, Hamlet sees a ghost which leads to people questioning his sanity whereas, in the movie, Haider opts to act insane to acquire more information about his missing father. Unlike Hamlet, not every major character is killed in the movie. 

All in all, Haider is a conventional, one of a kind movie which stands apart on its own, despite being an adaptation of the play Hamlet.


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