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One of the most audacious Shakespearean adaptations in modern film, Australian auteur's Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet defies form and thrives on stylistic dissonance by flaunting the Bard's language in 1990s America.
Paddayi, Abhaya Simha's National Award-winning Tulu film is a visually stunning retelling of Macbeth in a fishing town. Here, instead of the three witches, we have one deity.
Anirban Bhattacharya's elemental adaptation locates Macbeth on the shores of a Bengali coastal village where power games break out surrounding its fishery business.
As an impetuous young bride sold into marriage to a wealthier, much older husband, Katherine Lester (Florence Pugh) begins to chafe against the restraints of a patriarchal society in 1860s England.
Jayaraj's Kaliyattam is Shakspeare 101 to a whole generation of Malayalees. The director takes Othello and gives it a Theyyam setting in North Kerala.