Hi folks, welcome to Sahitya Wishesh, a special column dedicated to discuss the significance of literature in today's world. This week's edition predominantly focuses on the way novels are becoming sources of stories to many film makers. Film making not just needs a good director, sound technical team and a musician but the powerful script. Since good stories are now lacking, many movies are either being remade from other languages or from the same language (remake of classics).

Also, there are set of some film makers who wish prefer to adapt novels. This is not just the latest trend but something which has been there since quite some time. Therefore, one can say that films and literature are interlinked. In fact, some movies-even though are not made based on novels-appear like novels. This simply proves that dramas/novels have close connection with the cinema.

The only difference between a novel and novel when made a film is the difference in imagination. While a writer imagines something and pens down the same, the same work when read can be differently imagined by the reader. Whereas the case is not the same with cinema as film maker accurately shows what he wants. So, when a film is based on a novel, one can simply say that it's actually not the imagination of the writer but the imagination of the director. The plot will be the same but the ambiance and many things will change including the expressions and approaches of the characters. In fact, a writer-whose novel is made into a film-might get a feeling -ah this was not I imagined when I wrote. Same could be the case with all those who read novel and watch a movie, which is based on that novel.

Therefore, making films by taking particular novel/drama is undoubtedly not an easy task and not advisable too. To make a novel into a movie, one should also have more or less the same wave length and same artistic approach towards life like that of a writer. So far only directors like Satyajit Ray managed to make films based on novels without bringing sob expression on lovers of those novels. Remaining all just burned their fingers!

(AW Phani)