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'Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.' is a 2003 film directed, written and edited by Raj Kumar Hirani. This was his first film. After the success of this movie, Hirani made three more films, each of them more successful than the previous one. On a closer scrutiny, we can identify a common design or narrative technique in all his films. I would like to talk about that narrative technique taking one film at a time. This time, we will talk about the movie 'Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.' The movie was commercially and critically success. Film also wins the 2004 National Film Award for Best Popular Film. It tells a story of a local goon Munna Bhai who wants to become a doctor to avenge the insult of his father. His father also stopped talking to him because he lied about the fact that he was not a doctor but a goon. So, to elevate himself in the eyes of his father and to avenge his father's insult by marrying the Daughter of Dr. Asthana, he decides to join MBBS. He used his hooliganism t...

'Throne of Blood' is yet another adaptation of Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’. And like, 'Maqbool', here also, we can see nativized adaptation of the play. It is a 1957 film directed by none other than maestro of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa has also transposed the plot from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. Apart from this, he has also made use of stylistic elements of Noh Drama. Noh is a major form of classical Japanese Musical drama and it is the oldest major theater art still regularly performed today. As with setting, director has taken few liberties with the original play, yet the movie is considered to be one of the best film adaptations of Shakespearean play. The film's Japanese name is  Kumonosu-jō , meaning "Spider Web Castle". Like the play, in this movie too, the wife Washizu Asaji (Lady Macbeth) appears to be more ambitious than the protagonist, Washizu Taketoki (Macbeth).  The movie begins with the battle in which Samurai...

Many films have been made from the plays of William Shakespeare. When a literary work or a part of a literary work is used as a base for a film or TV Series, it is called adaptation. It is a form of Translation, known as Transmutation: A change from one semiotic system to another semiotic system. Here written text is turned into visual text, Linguistic signs are replaced by the Visual signs. Few of Shakespearean works have been adopted in Indian films, too. 2003 film  Maqbool  by Vishal Bhardwaj is an adaptation of Shakespeare's one of the best tragedies, Macbeth. Maqbool was Vishal Bhardwaj's second film as a director. The film had its North American premiere at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. And it was also screened in the Marché du Film section of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The film has a great star-cast: Pankaj Kapoor (he wins two awards for this role), Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, and Piyush Mishra. The...