But in the movie, we see that some of the characters like Roohdaar, Khurram, and Haider himself were alive in the end. Such as the major ones counted as: The play shows us the King of Denmark is already dead and the ghost of King Hamlet tells the truth to Prince Hamlet about his murder, as when we investigate the movie it is the character Roohdaar who tells Haider about the culprit of his father’s murder.Īlso, the relationship between Gertrude and hamlet is not much affectionate as the way it is shown in the movie about Haider and Ghazala.Īll Shakespearean Tragedy Plays has this element of all the characters die in the end. There are several events that have been edited in the movie from the play. Hamlet has been portrayed through the Reflection of Christianity, on the other hand, Haider portrays the political mishappen with Islamic reflection.Īt certain times when there is a contrast in culture and norms the effects are often visible and here there are certain differences in the plot whereas the relationship is portrayed in both. Linguistically also there is a widening between the 2 as one is in Hindi with a mixture of Urdu dialects, whereas Hamlet is in old English which also shows that the movie is culturally different in all terms. When we investigate Hamlet, it has all those autocratic lives of kings and queens and has a lavish livelihood. Since Haider is a Bollywood movie and the director tried to make this movie in favor of the Indian audience to make it more likable and hit it was essential to be relatable to the Indian context. The contrast in Cultural, linguistic, and Religion: The setting itself changes a lot of cultural and linguistic widegap that made the play and movie different. Whereas in the Movie Haider, Set in Srinagar in 1995, during militancy and a brutal Indian counter-insurgency. If we begin with the setting of Hamlet, we see it begins in the ancient fortress of Denmark in the late middle ages of the 14th and 15th centuries. Although the director Vishal Bhardwaj tried to portray the original play as it is with excellent cinematography but there are several incidents which contrast with the play, but many instances make this movie worth being called an adaption of the Shakespearean play. This movie is an adaptation of one of the classic plays of Shakespeare’s “ Hamlet”. “Haider” is a movie based on the setting of the insurgency-torn Kashmir of 1995, where there was a massive dispute between India and Pakistan. By wordsbycrafters on JA Comparative Analysis on the Movie “Haider” and the Play “Hamlet”

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