Paging William Shakespeare…

Even as Vishal Bhardwaj’s Othello adaptation Omkara wows critics and shocks audiences around the world, Bollywood rumour mills are abuzz that Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s closely guarded film might just be a take on the Bard’s Hamlet.



Either way, this return to the helm for Chopra — in a film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt — will definitely arouse audience curiousity.

Here’s a first draft of the poster, when the film was tentatively titled Yagna.