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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = The Bard of Blood<br />
| image = File:The Bard of Blood.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| author = Bilal Siddiqi<br />
| translator = <br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| genre = Spy thriller<br />
| publisher = [[Penguin Books]] and Blue Salt<br />
| release_date = 2015<br />
| media_type = Print ([[paperback]], [[Hardcover|hardback]])<br />
| pages = 312<br />
| isbn = 9780143423966<br />
}}<br />
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'''''The Bard of Blood''''' is a 2015 Indian fictional [[Spy fiction|espionage thriller]] novel written by debutant author, Bilal Siddiqi.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/shah-rukh-khan-and-netflix-bring-bard-of-blood-to-your-screens/story-VgScyvtD7x3H55hk5bsebM.html|title=Shah Rukh Khan and Netflix bring Bard of Blood to your screens|work=Hindustan Times|date=18 November 2017|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref> He wrote the novel at the age of 20 during his college days in Mumbai. It was published by [[Penguin books]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25260355-the-bard-of-blood|title=The Bard of Blood|publisher=Goodreads|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
Kabir Anand, is a former [[Research and Analysis Wing]] (RAW) agent and now a professor of Shakespeare in Mumbai. He was forced to leave RAW after a disastrous mission in Balochistan. He is called by the agency to return after Sadiq Sheikh, his ex-boss is killed. Meanwhile, [[Mullah Omar]] and the [[Inter-Services Intelligence|ISI]] are also after him.<br />
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==Development==<br />
Siddiqi said that he got a "sudden growing interest in the covert world of espionage" at the age of 17 and "the entire talk of jihad and Islamic extremism that plagued every newspaper."<ref name=lal>{{cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/718218/how-i-wrote-a-novel-at-19-and-was-published-at-20|title=How I wrote a novel at 19 and was published at 20|last=Siddiqui|first=Bilal|publisher=Scroll.in|date=4 April 2015|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref> He started writing it at the age of 19 and later met Chiki Sarkar, the then Chief Editor of Penguin Books, through [[Hussain Zaidi]] whom he had been assisting for a few years. Zaidi had recommended Siddiqui's name to Sarkar. She read the half manuscript and then decided to publish it. It took him "roughly a year" to write the novel.<ref name=lal/><br />
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==Adaptation==<br />
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In November 2017, it was announced that a [[Netflix]] original [[Bard of Blood|seven-episode series]] will be made based on the novel, co-produced by [[Shah Rukh Khan]]. The screenplay is written by Siddiqui.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/bilal-siddiqis-the-bard-of-blood-is-new-netflix-original-from-india-with-shah-rukh-khans-red-chillies-entertainment/article20762189.ece|title=From book to screen: on Bilal Siddiqi|last=Lazarus|first=Susanna Myrtle|work=The Hindu|date=24 November 2017|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gqindia.com/content/shah-rukh-khan-bilal-siddiqi-bard-of-blood-netflix/|title=Shah Rukh Khan is producing a Netflix series based on this 23-year-old's book|last=Iyengar|first=Aarti|work=GQ India|date=19 December 2017|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref> The cast includes [[Emraan Hashmi]], [[Vineet Kumar Singh]], [[Amyra Dastur]], [[Shashank Arora]], [[Kirti Kulhari]], [[Sobhita Dhulipala]], [[Jaideep Ahlawat]], [[Suhail Nayyar]] and [[Ajay Mahendru]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://scroll.in/reel/892054/here-is-a-primer-on-netflixs-bard-of-the-blood-based-on-bilal-siddiqis-novel|title=Here is a primer on Netflix's 'Bard of the Blood', based on Bilal Siddiqi's novel|last=Rao|first=Soumya|publisher=Scroll.in|date=15 October 2018|accessdate=19 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [https://penguin.co.in/book/fiction/the-bard-of-blood/ The Bard of Blood] at [[Penguin Books]]<br />
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