Bard in Bollywood

PriyankaPereira : Mon Nov 12 2012, 00:22 hrs

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Bollywood historian Rauf Ahmed believes Shakespeare is the easiest to borrow in terms of emotion. "He isn't vague and gives a lot of attention to detail," he says. Ahmed recalls, "Shammi Kapoor once told me that his father Prithviraj Kapoor was strongly influenced by Shakespeare. When he launched Prithvi Theatre, many of the characters in his plays were based on Shakespeare's plays." Ahmed also feels that the grey characters were something Shakespeare mastered in. "But the problem with Indian filmmakers is that most of them borrow ideas, few borrow the spirit of Shakespeare," he says.

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