Cinema adaptations play a vital role in recreating the imaginations. When the author scripts his ideas into a text, again the text in converted into visual by the director, where he is both an author and an adopter. This paper investigates the three adaptations of Shakespeare by Vishal Bharadwaj – Maqbool, Omkara and Haider. It argues that the adaptations are transculturating Shakespeare in the Indian context and like Shakespeare was a cultural commodity propagated by British imperialism, Bollywood is a cultural commodity of the hegemonic discourse of Indian Nationhood. Thus, the paper aims to study if by transculturating Shakespeare, Bharadwaj dismantles the narrative of Indian Nationhood or if he merely reinforces it despite situating it in the uncomfortable margins that threaten it. Finally, the paper locates the struggle between the narrative of nationhood and the counter narratives on the body of the female subject and studies the leads in 10 100 Identity and Marginalisation in South Asian Literature and Media Shakespeare’s plays transculturated onto Bharadwaj’s screen in this light