This is not a simple adaptation, this takes not a simplistic stance; Haider is a remarkable…  

This is not a simple adaptation, this takes not a simplistic stance; Haider is a remarkable achievement and one of the most powerful political films we've ever made, a bonafide masterpiece that throbs with intensity and purpose.The result is a knockout, a film that makes you smell corpses, that makes you shudder with melancholia, and a film that points accusing fingers. A film that doesn't flinch. Is Haider Vishal Bhardwaj's best film? Vishal Bharadwaj brings alive the ecstasy, pain and passion of Hamlet on screen, he also reminds us of the harsh truth in our own backyard, the man-made mayhem in the God-made jannat that is Kashmir. All this done with his classic poetic touch intact. The second half dips a bit before it picks up again with an unforgettable climax. Please watch this film 

This is an amazing adaptation of ""SHAKESPEAR'S novel HAMLET" "" ""I was waiting for a long time…  

This is an amazing adaptation of ""SHAKESPEAR'S novel HAMLET" "" ""I was waiting for a long time for a thrilling and nice flick from SHAHID KAPOOR, one of my favourite actors,but i am telling you he is really bombastic as a "KASHMIRI" young man. This was a tough duty for director to direct such a complex story but he did a decent job. production is great, all the other actors are nice and IRFAN khan is again in a unique avatar"""""""" "" At the end of the day go for it brother don't worry you will surely enjoy this one. i am telling you if you are a fan of shahid kapoor this movie is going to change his image for everyone. I am giving it""""""" 9/10"""" for great acting,direction and production of course. 

" Rarely do you see a movie that depresses you,make you want to shout your lungs out,you cry your…  

" Rarely do you see a movie that depresses you,make you want to shout your lungs out,you cry your heart out,i was so engulfed in the movie i would not care if i was even on fire,this emotional vengeance drama made me want to jump of Eiffel tower,i felt i was invincible,i cared for Haider,i wanted him to succeed,it made me angry and vicious,Vishal Bhardwaj is one of the greatest film maker and he proved it once again,not that he needs too,Shahid as Haider is amazing,Tabu and Kay Kay are,i don't think. Need to tell anything,their names are enough "the fire it gives you,you want to get up and do something,how ever odd it may seem,it makes you weep,you feel that craziness in yourself,your nostrils are hard,you feel what Haider does,the soundtrack is as good as something god would take years to make,it basically makes you shiver with excitement,Vishal Bhardwaj has created one which you would except to listen when the apocalypse is on its way bringing destruction and death and probably a bit of hope too,you sir has evolved more rapidly than our specie,i don't have any other explanation 

As viewer's, we don't get to watch many sensible movies in India. Movies like Haider should not be…  

As viewer's, we don't get to watch many sensible movies in India. Movies like Haider should not be missed as it is not a DVD-Watch stuff. It is very difficult to portray a Shakespearian drama into an Indian Setup. For Vishal it is not a big deal as he has done it thrice Completing the Shakespearian trilogy successfully. Shahid Kapoor proves that he is the son of great Pankaj Kapoor by giving us a powerful performance. Tabu played a heartbreaking yet a deceptive woman. Kay Kay Menon's performances was outstanding. Irrfan's cameo was a treat to watch. The two salman guys did a great comic part. The remaining cast, along with the lovely Shraddha Kapoor, did a fantastic job. The ending was quite different from original Hamlet drama, which I wouldn't be disclosing. Give yourselves some time to watch this beautiful movie with seductive poetic dialogues about love, politics and revenge. 

Since the trailer of Haider is out it has created a mass hysteria. The audience has a lot of…  

Since the trailer of Haider is out it has created a mass hysteria. The audience has a lot of expectations from Haider because of its brilliant star cast including Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon, Shraddha Kapoor and Irrfan Khan. On the other hand, Haider is also most anticipated movie of the year because it is the third Shakespearean adaptation by Vishal Bharadawaj. Vishal has proved his mettle with likes of Maqbool, The Blue Umbrella, Omkara and Kaminey. No doubt, Vishal has a robust hold over what he is doing. Will Haider live up to expectations? Will Shahid give his career's best in this movie? Will Tabu heat up the proceedings of movie with her anguish and charisma? Let's analyze. Vishal, as the director, is the lifeline of Haider. Without Vishal's directorial finesse Haider couldn't have been the experience that it turned out to be now. Screenplay of the movie is pitch perfect without any loopholes. It couldn't have been better. The writers have transformed the idea on paper into a visually splendid movie with superlative script. The dialogues penned by Vishal strike the right chord. Cinematography is of astounding. The DoP depicts Kashmir in an exquisite way. The locations are breathtaking. The music by Vishal is soul touching. Songs like Aao Na and Bismil steal the show. Aao Na is just too melodious. Bismil has all the elements to be a chart buster. Overall, the album is exceptional and distinctive. Tabu comes into form after 'The Namesake' and 'Cheeni Kum'. She gives yet another scintillating performance. The flair that Tabu has is inimitable. No one could have played the role of Ghazala like Tabu. She owns every frame she appears in. Ghazala's role demands to show distress, magnetism and splendor at the same time. Tabu depicts every emotion with poise. It will not be inaccurate to state that performance wise Tabu is the master of this star cast. 

Haider is a brilliantly acted and photographed movie which used classic scenes from the play and…  

Haider is a brilliantly acted and photographed movie which used classic scenes from the play and made a picturesque collage out of it. It does not confirm to the play, still the spirit of the play is intact, although a few more soliloquies would have been great. It is not and I didn't expect it to be a documentation of Kashmir issue, although it does have them as a background. It is about Haider and Ghazala. A special mention of Pankaj Kumar, the cinematographer, who again delivers a gem after Ship of Theseus. Shahid does the best work of his life. Tabu and Kay Kay are as brilliant as they always have been and Irffan as well will be remembered for his cameo. The poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Gulzar mixed with Vishal Bhardwaj's music will remain in your mind for a long time. Also the background music is as haunting as the interpretation of the ghost scene. The best movie of the year has arrived. 

=>What's Good:- 1. Brilliant Cinematography 2. Brilliant performances by all the star cast 3.…  

=>What's Good:- 1. Brilliant Cinematography 2. Brilliant performances by all the star cast 3. Special credits to Irfan Khan, Tabu, Shahid Kapoor and Kay Kay 4. Songs went well with the situations...special credit to Bismil song. 5. The movie has its on charm taking you into a different world 6. The dark Kashmir of 90's =>What's Bad:- 1.Very few scenes where your mind may be diverted or you may feel bored....but can be ignored easily as hardly one or two scenes for couple of minutes each. =>Final Words:- "A very well directed movie with brilliant performances by all the star cast.....its a different genre movie,not for the masses....if any one is looking for a masala or typical Bollywood movie its no fun for them to watch.....as this one is slow which builds on the go and has its own charm and class". 

this movie is a most awaiting movie of 2014.. a master piece , Acting is very good all the…  

this movie is a most awaiting movie of 2014.. a master piece , Acting is very good all the characters of movies play well . Tabu as everybody knows best actress in industry and Sahid Kapoor is one the best actor This movie start well and take time for making story line but after the interval its beyond the imagination . I will not go into plot details, because there is a lot of it. However, a basic one sentence summary is: Haider now has to face his most cunning and intelligent enemy, someone with a real motives... Now that that is out of the way. Haider has done a tremendous job as our beloved Haider , Sahid Kapoor has a flawed personality that hangs on the balance between righteousness . His perception of justice causes an emotional. 

KUDOS !!!! Certainly how Hamlet is put into a Bollywood movie. Vishal deserves a pat on his back.…  

KUDOS !!!! Certainly how Hamlet is put into a Bollywood movie. Vishal deserves a pat on his back. Haider, it reveals a story based on Kashmir's life. If one has taste for real movies then this movie is worth watchable. Balance of Grudge and tragedy is beautifying Kashmir very well. Raw beauty of Kashmir will make you want to visit the place. Shahid, Tabu, Shraddha and Irfan have played well for their roles. Side characters in the movie will entertain you. Movie deserves time to draw your mind into it. One needs patience to see understand the story. Message it contains at the end is to be peaceful. Such sensible movies are rare to see. Thumbs up for Haider, Shahid's fans will get to know why he'd go bald for a movie. Don't miss a valuable movie for your time !!!!!!!!!! 

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The movie tells the story of Haider (Shahid) who finds out that his peace-loving, life-saving…  

The movie tells the story of Haider (Shahid) who finds out that his peace-loving, life-saving doctor father (Narendra Jha) has been arrested by the Indian Army. He returns from Aligarh (where he was studying poetry, a passion he shares with his father) to realize that his mother (Tabu) and uncle (Kay Kay Menon) are behind a conspiracy that resulted in his father's disappearance. We have seen in Maqbool and Omkara how wonderfully Bhardwaj takes up the bard's plays and weaves them passionately into a completely different cultural milieu. With Haider, Vishal does better. The film paints Kashmir in a haunting colour, so true to the troubles there. The usual whites and dark hues of frames are there in the Valley (usual in cinematic sense when you portray dark emotions) but even the gleeful frames blaringly outline the feelings of revengeful, hurt and disturbed souls. Bhardwaj and Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer co-wrote the film's screenplay and they must be praised for their courage to speak strongly about what is happening in Kashmir. Haider goes beyond Bollywood's Pakistan bashing for Kashmir's troubles and speaks about the alleged atrocities of the Indian Army on Kashmiris. Haider jokes about 'chutzpah'--pronounced as 'chootspaa' in the movie--and equates it to AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the security law which gives armed forces immunity from prosecution while operating in the militancy-hit areas but has been criticised by human rights groups). As for performances, Vishal Bhardwaj brings out the best of Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, a journalist in the movie. Shahid looks a little out of place in the beginning but the traumatic role rubs onto him with time. Shahid's acting in Haider could well undo his several Bollywood mistakes , Tabu plays the role of a traumatised and hurt soul who is searching for peace and love wonderfully. Kay Kay Menon is mesmerising with his menacing and conniving looks. Narendra Jha is impressive as the doctor who in his bid to save lives ends up being branded as a militancy supporter. Even the smallest of characters, faces that appear just for a shot, impress you as much as the actors with full-fledged roles. In one scene, Shahid meets an old woman at a government office where they have both come searching for their missing family members. The woman shows the picture of a young man and Shahid shows his father's picture: the traumatised-and-caring look on the woman's face as she touches Shahid's head is striking.Bhardwaj picks the drama of human follies from Shakespeare's works and places them in a completely different scenario, but he stays true to the emotions of the bard's works. The director ensures that the emotions of a troubled soul (Haider), subtle sexual undertones of the mother-son duo relation, the eternal human follies of treachery and adultery are showcased on the canvas of his cinema. The music and background score go hand-in-hand with the narrative and scaringly haunt you throughout. The romantic number Khul Kabhi To seems a bit misplaced and is distracting. The ending to the song, however, brings you back to the traumatised cinematic experience that Haider is. Watch the film for Vishal Bhardwaj's direction, dialogues and touching acting prowess that almost everyone in Haider shows. Skip it if an intense, disturbing film is not your cup of tea or if entertainment is what you seek at movie theatres. 

Films transmute William Shakespeare's poetic imagery and the atmosphere that his verses conjure…  

Films transmute William Shakespeare's poetic imagery and the atmosphere that his verses conjure into re-imagined, re- contextualized visuals, and not merely reproduce the action with select duologue's, a movie adaptation of a Shakespeare play can be considered successful. That is why, thought British film scholar Roger Manvell, Shakespeare often translates best in what he considered "foreign films". The setting is one of the reasons Haider, Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of Hamlet, works. It is true to the haunting ambiguity of the characters' motives in the original play, Shakespeare's most opaque of tragedies, but the Kashmir canvas is potent. Bhardwaj's visual intelligence and the screenplay by Bhardwaj and Basharat Peer, one of India's acute commentators on Kashmir, his home state, add to the effective localization. Shakespearean purism aside, Haider is a thrilling film. It is a film of luxuriant paranoia. It is about Oedipal love. Unlike the cardboard insurgency imagery or images of damaged beauty that soak most films about Kashmir, Haider is an unflinching take on the Kashmir malaise, the tragedy infused with a sense of dark humor about the ordinary Kashmiri's hopelessness. Compared to Bhardwaj's earlier two Shakespeare adaptations, Maqbool (Macbeth) and Omkara (Othello), both of which depended heavily on language and duologue's and used Shakespeare's stories rather conveniently to propel the plot, Haider is a quieter yet richer spectacle and a convincing standalone piece. Bhardwaj chooses bold strokes over gloomy introspection, and in that sense, Haider is in the tradition of mainstream Hindi cinema. The pasteurization of songs is riveting to watch (Pankaj Kumar's cinematography is breathtaking throughout, and especially in the songs) and the songs are some of Bhardwaj's best compositions as a music director in recent times. The melodrama towards the end loosens the narrative and the last half hour feels like a bit of a drag, again a typical affliction in Hindi films. The protagonist is far from the melancholy Dane; Haider, which Shahid Kapoor plays with impressive zest and inventiveness, is more a dashing, combustible figure than a brooder. Bhardwaj also does away with the supernatural horror so integral to the original play, and which can be an easy tool for creating suspense and drama in cinema. The horror is in the everyday macabre reality of death, loss and waiting, and in the manipulation of a Kashmiri Muslim's emotions and insecurities. Haider (Kapoor) arrives in the Kashmiri village he left long ago to study at Aligarh after his father, a doctor, has disappeared. His mother Ghazala (Tabu) is romantically close to his father's younger brother (Kay Kay Menon). Arshi (Shraddha Kapoor), his childhood sweetheart, is torn between her pro-Indian establishment family and Haider, who is devastated to see his mother's sudden transformation. His idyllic childhood with parents seemingly in love is shattered. When Roohdar (Irrfan Khan), a mysterious man with a limp sends him a message from his lost father, Haider is on a destructive path of jealousy, hatred, turmoil and doubt. Central to the story is the relationship between Ghazala and Haider— a tender as well as anguished bond between mother and son, fueling the film as essentially an Oedipal drama. The romantic love between Arshi and Haider is almost a sweet afterthought. The casting ideas work impressively well. Kay Kay Menon stands out as a superbly calculating man, the villain in Haider's mind, and Tabu makes a heart-rending Ghazala. Shraddha Kapoor delivers an earnestly fervent performance and Irrfan Khan is pitch perfect as a quietly menacing presence, the only personification close to a ghostly apparition. Salman Khan is here too, in a deliciously manufactured ode to the Hindi film hero through Salman and Salman, Haider's friends and a pair of all-round crooks, an interesting replication of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from the original play. Haider is an immensely effective re imagination of Shakespeare—and the film's biggest triumph is that the provincial, in this case Kashmir and the characters defined by its reality, shine in a universal and timeless tragedy