Tabu scores a double whammy

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=43376741"></script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="74.6%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="javascript:popUp(&quot1;photopop?msid=233416&type=0&quot1;)"> <img border="0" align="left" src="/cms.dll/thumb?height=100&width=100&photoID=233416" hspace="12"" /></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Click to enlarge picture</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">NEW DELHI: Tabu is mighty pleased these days.And with good reason. She has walked away with applauses at the ongoing 34th International Film Festival of India in Delhi.<br /><br />She''s the only actress to have had two of her films, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Abar Aranye</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Mian Maqbool</span>, being screened on consecutive days. <br /><br />"I didn''t know until I was told this is a record. I''ve been here for two days and I am thrilled with the good responses I''ve been receiving," gushes Tabu.<br /><br />The film, an adaptation of Shakespeare''s Macbeth, made its premiere at the International Film Festival of India.<br /><br />Tabu plays a lovable vamp who desires <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Maqbool</span>. She entices <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Maqbool</span> to finish off <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Abbaji</span> so that he can take the don''s place in the underworld net. However, fear and guilt haunt the two leading characters as they go about killing more and more people in their greed.<br /><br />Vishal Bhardwaj certainly deserves praises for a truly <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">desi</span> adaptation of the story that has earlier been immortalized on celluloid by renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa in his <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Throne of Blood</span>. <br /><br />In a setting that reminds of the back lanes of Mumbai and captures the spirit of underworld, Vishal creates an interesting milieu in which Tabu plays the mistress of a don <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Abbaji</span> (Pankaj Kapoor). <br /><br />The Indianized MacBeth -<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Maqbool Miyan</span> -is played by Irfaan Khan.</div> </div>