Top 5 Bollywood movies based on novels Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:17 Ayush Agrawal Bollywood is known to draw inspiration from everywhere possible. When it is not ripping off Hollywood and south movies, it is busy looking for stories in the literary section. Resultant? A lot of movie adaptions of bestsellers and also little known ones. So with many new movies based on novels soon hitting the theatres, we thought of coming out with a few other examples of such a transition from book to big screen. Guide A R K Laxman story by the same name, Guide is one of the masterpieces of Indian cinema with Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman in the lead. It tells the story of a simple and freewheeling guide who falls for a beautiful danseuse but ends up being a spiritual guru with a mammoth task to make it rain in a drought stricken village. The film was also screened in Cannes Film festival in 2007. Devdas This Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay novel formed the basis of many movies in various languages. It was first made by Pramathesh Barua in 1935 with K L Saigal as Devdas followed by one in 1955, directed by Bimal Roy with Dilip Kumar, Vyajanthimala and Suchitra Sen in the lead roles. It was put on big screen again when Sanajy Leela Bhansali decided to add grandiose to this already monumental film in 2002 with Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit in central characters. But Anurag Kashyap decided to have a twisted version of the film and came up with Dev D. The story of this lovelorn lawyer seemed to have interested our filmmakers much more than anyone else. Maqbool Vishal Bharadwaj’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth took the industry by storm. His jackpot was the presence of some of the best actors in business in his film. Pankaj Kapur, Irrfan Khan and Tabu were brilliant in this movie and inspired one and all to scourge through books for good inspirations. It is about a loyal aide to a dreaded gangster whose love for the latter’s moll makes him kill his master and take his place. But soon guilt takes over him and both he and his lover die tragically. Omkara Another of Vishal Bharadwaj’s genius adaptation of Shakespeare’s story Othello, Omkara was nothing less than a revelation. First it was set in dusty and rusty UP replete with its crass lingo and then it had Saif Ali Khan in his career’s best role of Langda Tyagi. It was hugely accepted by people and post that, people tried to ape the genre. 3 idiots Chetan Bhagat’s take on what not to do when in IIT Five Point Someone made for an interesting watch in theatres as 3 idiots with Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi and R Madhavan highlighting comically the perils of peer and parental pressure to excel in everything in life. The movie was huge hit and reportedly, made it impossible for other films to make money that released during its presence in the theatres. Although it was little hard to digest Aamir as a college student when he is 40, it was supremely funny to entice everyone. filmitadka.in/201401303128/news/top-5-bollywood-movies-based-on-novels.html
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:02:12 +0000
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