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Rushdie says Haider's Salman Rushdie joke is on Salman Khan

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Columbia University played host to Vishal Bharadwaj's Haider earlier this week, with over 2000 students in attendance for the screening, which was followed by an incisive and exhaustive interactive session helmed by the Haidar writer Basharat Peer who is a former student of Columbia University.
The guest of honour? Celebrated novelist, Salman Rushdie, who like Haider and Peer, is of Kashmiri origin.

Here are his thoughts...
On the film

"I thought it used Hamlet very well to illuminate Kashmir."

On Tabu
Tabu's performance is what holds the film together. The use of Shakespearean motifs -- the play within the play, the revenge tragedy, the ghost -- is elegant and effective."

On his namesakes
I enjoyed the fact that the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern characters are both called Salman, though I think it's intended as a joke about Salman Khan and not me."

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