Imagine Hrithik Roshan as Hamlet! 15th Aug 2006
22.00 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau
A filmmaker in Bollywood is thinking of making an adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ with Hrithik Roshan in the eponymous role.
No, it is not Vishal Bhardwaj in whose mind this idea is cooking. It is rather Onir , the director of critically acclaimed My Brother Nikhil , who is said to be contemplating a movie based on ‘Hamlet’. Reports say Onir is considering Hrithik Roshan for the role of the movie’s princely protagonist.
In an interview, Hrithik says he is thrilled at the prospect of playing Hamlet, but he will have to listen to the script and movie idea before committing to the project.
“I'd like to do an adaptation and not a straightforward screen version of Shakespeare…but something like what Vishal Bhardwaj has done in Omkara is welcome,” Hrithik is quoted as saying.
Hrithik says he is a great fan of Bhardwaj’s style of cinema. Hrithik has seen Omkara and is pretty impressed by the idiom and setting in which Vishal has adapted Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Hrithik says he hopes to work with Bhardwaj someday.
Bhardwaj, on the other hand, is said to be thinking of adapting ‘Julius Caesar’ to the screen next.
Imagine Hrithik Roshan as Hamlet!
