Vishal Bhardwaj and Shakespeare
Vishal Bhardwaj is passionate about Shakespeare’s work and this can be seen in is films like Maqbool which is based on Macbeth and Omkara which is based on Othello even the Hindi songs in these movies look very inspired by him. Vishal is planning his next film which is again based on Shakespeare’s Romeo Juliet. He wanted to do this film even before he made his two films. But due to some reason he started his first film Maqbool and after that he did Omkara and then he launched Julia, which is based on life of actress Mary Evans better knows as Nadia the gymnastic queen. Vishal has now started his venture Romeo and Juliet which is going to set in modern times. He had signed Shahid Kapur to play Romeo and search for Juliet is still on.