• Gohar Ayaz

  Author

• Dr. Zia Ahmed

  Author

• Ali Ammar

  Author

This paper is an attempt to explore the success of depicting miserable situation in
Kashmir in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Bollywood movie Haider, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s
Hamlet. Hamlet’s Denmark was a rotten state and the same we can express to some level is a
foremost diversion from the paradigm of the conventional cinema to shoot artistically and
attractively the internal disasters and clashes that have propelled the peace and harmony in
Kashmir. How and to what extent is Vishal Bharadwaj Successful in adopting Shakespeare’s
Hamlet and shifting its setting from Denmark to Kashmir? And what are its consequences on the
contemporary cinema and the audience? Employing quantitative research method the research
reveals that Bharadwaj was successful in transporting Shakespeare’s Hamlet from Denmark to
Kashmir which was a challenging task to show the viewers the other side of the coin in case of
Kashmir issue which is in rotten state.

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