Filmmaker
Vishal
Bhardwaj
is
taking
a
break
from
Shakespeare
and
will
be
adapting
'The
Exile:
The
Stunning
Inside
Story
of
Osama
bin
Laden
and
Al
Qaeda
in
Flight'
as
his
next
directorial
venture.
Titled
'Abbottabad',
the
project
will
be
produced
by
Bhardwaj
and
Junglee
Pictures.
The
book,
written
by
Catherine
Scott-Clark
and
Adrian
Levy,
is
an
an
insider's
account
of
al-Qaida
after
9/11.
It
is
about
the
history
of
the
terrorist
network,
from
2001
to
the
present
and
reveals
a
dark
web
of
familial
and
political
machinations.
No
further
details
about
the
project,
including
the
cast
have
been
revealed
yet.
Bhardwaj's
last
film
was
Rangoon.
Starring
Kangana
Ranaut,
Saif
Ali
Khan
and
Shahid
Kapoor,
the
film
could
not
create
any
magic
at
the
box
office.
The
filmmaker
has
earlier
adapted
Shakespearean
tragedies
-
'Macbeth'
(Maqbool),
'Othello'
(Omkara)
and
'Hamlet'
(Haider).
He
has
also
brought
Ruskin
Bonds's
'The
Blue
Umbrella'
and
'Susanna's
Seven
Husbands'
(7
Khoon
Maaf)
to
the
silver
screen.
With
inputs
from
PTI.