Maqbool

Name: Maqbool
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Released: 2003

Vishal Bhardwaj's transposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth to the Bombay underworld — an Urdu-soaked gangster tragedy that launched Bhardwaj's Shakespeare trilogy and cemented Irrfan Khan as a leading man. Elegant, rain-washed, and haunted by its own premonitions.

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Writer: Abbas Tyrewala & Vishal Bhardwaj (screenplay)
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Piyush Mishra, Murali Sharma, Masumeh Makhija
Producer: Bobby Bedi
Cinematography: Hemant Chaturvedi
Editing: Aarif Sheikh
Music: Vishal Bhardwaj
Lyrics: Gulzar

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Awards & festival selections

- 2003 — Premiere — Discovery
- 2004 — Best Supporting Actor — Pankaj Kapur
- 2004 — Best Supporting Actor — Pankaj Kapur
Bangkok International Film Festival
Bangkok International Film Festival
- 2004 — Nominated Best Film
- 2005 — Critics Award — Best Actor, Pankaj Kapur
- 2005 — Critics Award — Best Actor, Pankaj Kapur
- 2005 — Best Screenplay — Vishal Bhardwaj & Abbas Tyrewala
- 2005 — Best Dialogue — Vishal Bhardwaj
- 2005 — Nominated Best Villain (Irrfan Khan) · Best Story (Vishal Bhardwaj)
- 2005 — Best Screenplay — Vishal Bhardwaj & Abbas Tyrewala
- 2005 — Best Dialogue — Vishal Bhardwaj
Global Indian Film Awards
Global Indian Film Awards
- 2005 — Best Screenplay — Vishal Bhardwaj & Abbas Tyrewala
- 2005 — Nominated Best Actor in a Negative Role (Irrfan Khan) · Best Actress in a Negative Role (Tabu)
- 2005 — Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Pankaj Kapur) · Best Actor in a Negative Role (Irrfan Khan) · Best Dialogue (Vishal Bhardwaj)
- 2005 — Nominated Pankaj Kapur · Tabu · Piyush Mishra · Masumeh Makhija