Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film is based on William Shakespeare 's Macbeth with Mumbai underworld as backdrop, Fact2: powerful underworld right-hand man of don Jahangir Khan, Fact3: Nimmi persuades him to kill Abba Ji to take over as Don, Fact4: Maqbool is torn between love for Nimmi and loyalty to Abba Ji, Fact5: corrupt police inspectors-cum-astrologers predict fall of Abba Ji and rise and fall of Maqbool black comic relief
Output (English): The film is based on William Shakespeares Macbeth, with the Mumbai underworld as its backdrop. Maqbool Irrfan Khan is the righthand man of Jahangir Khan alias Abba Ji Pankaj Kapur, a powerful underworld don. Maqbool is grateful and feels a close connection and personal indebtedness to Abba Ji. Seeing their close relationship, but also sensing Maqbools ambition, two corrupt policemen Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah predict that Maqbool will soon take over the reins of the Mumbai Underworld from Abba Ji. Nimmi Tabu is Abba Jis mistress, but she and Maqbool are secretly in love. Nimmi encourages Maqbools ambitions and persuades him to kill Abba Ji to take over as Don. Maqbool is torn between his love for Nimmi and his loyalty to Abba Ji, but he begins to prepare the ground for becoming a Don, by ensuring that others in the line of succession cannot interfere. Finally, Maqbool murders Abba Ji in cold blood while he is in bed at night, with Nimmi next to him. Maqbool gets away with the murder and takes over as Don, just as planned; but both he and Nimmi are haunted by guilt, seeing Abba Jis ghost and unable to wash the blood from their hands. There is also suspicion, within the gang, of Maqbools role in the death of Abba Ji, and eventually the lovers meet a tragic end. In addition to the portrayals of the three tragic heroes, the film offers performances by supporting cast members, in particular Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah. The two open the film in their roles as black comic relief corrupt police inspectorscumastrologers, predict the fall of Abba Ji—who has them on his payroll—and the rise and fall of Maqbool. Contrary to the original play, the corrupt cops are not just passive soothsayers. In an effort to sustain what they refer to as balancing forces, they are also actively involved in shaping events, like aiding in providing information to Abba Jis enforcers to wipe out a rival gang, using subtle nuances in coercing Maqbool to shift loyalties, deliberately botching an encounter attempt on Riyaz Boti Macduff and subsequently setting up an alliance between a rival politician the incumbent one was backed by Abba Ji and a fleeing Guddu Fleance and Riyaz Boti against Maqbool.