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Ranked #28 of 100
Maqbool
मक़बूल · 2003
Macbeth as a Bombay don's lieutenant, with two corrupt cops as the witches reading the city's astrology.
- Director
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Year
- 2003
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri
Why it's at number 28
Irrfan and Tabu at the peak of their powers. The film that made the Bhardwaj Shakespeare trilogy possible.
Macbeth as a Bombay don's lieutenant, with two corrupt cops as the witches reading the city's astrology.
Maqbool sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj — also responsible for Omkara, Haider, Kaminey.
- Released in 2003, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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