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Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days Author: Vishal Bhardwaj Gulzar/ Artiste/Contributor(: Irfan Khan/Tabbu/Pankaj Kapoor/Om Puri et al Publisher: Eagle Video Year: 2006 Language: Hindi Pages: N/A ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A Description Maqbool is a story of passion, power, seduction, brooding crime and everberating self-punishment. The tale reveals the politics of lust and passion as Mian Maqbool, the mafia gang’s lieutenant and right hand man of the don Abbaji, falls in love with the don’s mistress and saga of massacre unfolds. Abetted by the mistress Nimmi, who also loves Mian and goads him to take his godfather’s place in the hierarchy of the gang and her bed, Main plots and plans to usurp Abbaji’s power and fiefdom.
Maqbool is torn between his loyalty for his mentor and his love for Nimmi. With further aid from the two cops Pandit and Purohit, who also provide comic relief to the dark tale, Maqbool unleasehes a mayhem of crime and gore, shaking the very roots of the closely knit mafia family. As circumstances spiral out of control, so does Maqbool’s sense of descretion. But does Maqbool, a hard man from the harsh underworld has the grit to fight it anymore? Maqboool Transports you to a threshold of pain and redemption hitherto unknown to Hindi cinema. PRODUCER: Bobby Bedi DIRECTOR: Vishal Bhardwaj MUSIC: Vishal Bhardwaj SOUND: Robert Taylor EDITOR: Aarif Sheikh LYRICS: Gulzar CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hemant Chaturvedi SCREENPLAY: Abbas Tyrewala & Vishal Bhardwaj MAQBOOL-Irfaan Khan NIMMI-Tabbu ABBA JI-Pankaj Kapoor PANDIT-Om Puri PUROHIT-Naseeruddin Shah This DVD Video disc Format offers the best video & audio Qality in Your Home. This DVD disc is Digitally Mastered from Original film, Offering Sharp Crisp digital video & audio quality that you can experience in your home theater.
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MAQBOOL (Hindi, 2003, 126 minutes) Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj Produced by Bobby Bedi; Screenplay: Abbas Tyrewala and Vishal Bhardwaj; Dialogues: Vishal Bhardwaj; Lyrics: Gulzar; Music: Vishal Bhardwaj; Cinematography: Hemant Chaturvedi Films with criminal protagonists permit directors and audiences to vicariously experience lifestyles involving extraordinary levels of danger, violence, and ill-gotten luxury, secure in the expectation that they will (normally) be atoned for in the end. Although detective and crime dramas in Bombay cinema began appearing in the silent films of the 1920s, a criminal antihero was relatively rare (with the exception of occasional films featuring noble dacoits or rural bandits; cf. GUNGA JAMUNA, 1961) until the 1970s, when such a role, usually explained as the result of childhood trauma or deprivation, became associated with the emerging “superstar” persona of Amitabh Bachchan (cf. DEEWAR, DON). In MAQBOOL, Vishal Bhardwaj tells a very similar story, enacted by a similar set of character types, of the rise and fall of a powerful don. Unlike SATYA’s (largely) Hindu milieu, however, the mob here is predominantly Muslim—a fact that is ostensibly faithful to the demographics of a significant part of the Mumbai underworld—and the mise-en-scene and plot deftly evoke the residue of courtly and feudal tastes and ostentatious but Sufi-flavored piety displayed by its self-made “kings,” as well as their adoration by the city’s Muslim underclass. Against this rich cultural backdrop, the director has cleverly (if somewhat freely) adapted, right from the common Islamic name of its antihero, Shakespeare’s archetypal tale of unchecked ambition and its fateful consequences.
Aided by a smart script, restrained pacing, and uniformly remarkable performances from his principals, Bhardwaj has crafted a justly acclaimed film ( India Today declared it the best of 2003) that works both as a gangster drama and as a new, and insightful, cultural transposition of and commentary on Macbeth. The story begins, needless to say, on a stormy night. Shakespeare’s three “weird sisters” are transposed into two thoroughly corrupt but comically bumbling Hindu cops, Purohit and Pandit (Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri), who dabble in the occult. Even as they assist the criminal gang to which they are beholden in wiping out a rival clan, they detect, via the kundal charts used by Indian astrologers, propitious signs for the potential ascent of its second-in-command, Maqbool (Irfan Khan), to eventually supplant his master, the “king of kings” Jahangir Khan, better known as “Abba-ji” (“revered father,” extraordinarily portrayed by Pankaj Kapoor in a Filmfare Award-winning performance that might be termed Brando-esque were it not so thoroughly steeped in Indo-Muslim mannerisms). The first appearance of the recurring kundal motif, casually traced by Pandit’s finger on the misted windowpane of a van in which he and his buddy interrogate and then dispatch a member of the rival faction, is a brilliant cinematic moment that effectively evokes the theatrical archetype even as it literally etches the ominous and sanguine outline of the ensuing tale.