Farhan Akhtar will be playing the lead role in director Sudhir Mishra’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ in Indian context. The film titled ‘Dhruv’ will have Kareena Kapoor and Chitrangada Singh in female leads. Farhan has agreed to produce the film too.
Farhan will play a young man who is forced to join politics and later becomes an influential political leader like the way Hamlet did when his father was killed. It may be mentioned here that before this, Sudhir was working on another political story, ‘Aur Devdas’, but had shelved the movie after the release of ‘Dev D’.
This time the films based on politics are in fashion it seems. So, we also have Prakash Jha making a film based on politics named ‘Rajniti’ which is said to be inspired by ‘Mahabharat’ and the Hollywood film ‘The Godfather’.
Before this Vishal Bhardwaj jas already adapted Shakespeare’s plays ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Othello’ for his films Maqbool and Omkara respectively.