Lessons from the Bard

Chennai | Monday | 16th January, 2017

Summary:

His plays are perfect for Hindi cinema — there’s heat, colour, melodrama and over-the-topness; everything that constitutes a potboiler,” said Harris. “Who’s the biggest screenplay writer in Bollywood?” asked Jonathan Gil Harris at his workshop. Harris concluded his session saying, “Hindi cinema is not B-grade. Shakespeare and Bollywood go as well together as Romeo and Juliet do.” The latter, with more rhythm, is more powerful and Shakespeare effectively used it at critical junctures of his works..