Pankhuri Singh
Department: Deapartment of English and Film Studies
Discipline: English
Research Centre/Unit: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Plays in Indian Cinema
Project Summary
Adaptation of Shakespeare's plays in Indian Cinema.
My thesis argues for and aims to bring to light the methods employed by Vishal Bhardwaj in adapting William Shakespeare’s plays in Bombay cinema. It will draw on the plays of Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, which were adapted in Maqbool (2004), Omkara (2006) and Haider (2014) respectively. The methodological approaches being used involve close reading of source texts and watching films based on them. I will also take the Transcultural Adaption Theory and the Theory of Indigenisation into account, as the overall focus of my thesis is determining how Shakespeare has been recontextualised in the Indian setting. The thesis aims to offer a nuanced understanding of the various approaches undertaken by Bhardwaj to translocate the Shakespearean play in the Indian setting.
Supervisory Team
Supervisiors:
Professor Pascale Aebischer
Dr Ranita Chatterjee
Wider Research Interests
Transcultural Adaptations
Adaptation theories
Cinema and Literature
Rethinking Shakespeare