@article{Satyam Kumar_2023, title={William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Adaptation: A Cultural Materialist Reading of Bollywood Movie Maqbool}, volume={8}, url={https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/1069}, DOI={10.53032/tcl.2023.8.2.03}, abstractNote={<p>The present research article focuses on Bollywood movie <em>Maqbool </em>(2004), the Hindi language movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play <em>Macbeth </em>(1606). Shakespeare’s plays have become available in the cinematic adaptations in many different languages across the globe. All these adaptations focus on different aspects of the original texts, and come up with some entirely new movies which at times have the Shakespearean elements in them. The plots, settings and the timelines are of course different, but they make Shakespeare’s dramas available to a wider audience across different cultures. <em>Maqbool</em> is such a movie adaptation in Hindi, directed by Indian film-director, Vishal Bhardwaj. The movie relates to the incidents and events from Shakespeare’s play <em>Macbeth</em>, though it has entirely new flavours of its own as a typical Bollywood movie. Like Shakespeare’s plays, these movies also have something to offer to the critics. A close analysis of such adaptations, in relation to the original textual creations, can bring forth many new critical perspectives. This article aims at analysing the movie, <em>Maqbool</em> from the perspective of cultural materialism where it tries to bring out that how the movie interrelates with the contemporary social and political situations of the time which it depicts. There are certain hidden structures in the movie which remain unearthed when watched without critical eyes. The paper attempts a cultural materialist reading of <em>Maqbool</em> to bring out such hidden aspects of the movie.</p>}, number={2}, journal={The Creative Launcher}, author={Satyam Kumar}, year={2023}, month={Apr.}, pages={20–27} }