What is common between Ben Hur and Harry Potter? Both are top grosser of their times and have originated from some novel.
Around The World In Eighty Days, Charlotte’s Web, Love Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Schindler's List, Devdas, Parineeta, Shatranj Ke Khiladi… They all were based on novels. Beautifully written and wonderfully crafted. For sometime now… Under Lens we would discover some of the novels that were brought live on celluloid.
Novel-“Guide” Movie-“Guide”: Guide was a wonderful movie starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Indian Cinema. It was based on a novel by the same name- Guide. R.K. Narayan was the writer of Guide. The story strikes a perfect blend of two contrasting lives of the same person in present and flashback. In the former he is a revered saint and in the latter he is a shrewd guide.
Novel-“Forrest Gump” Movie-“Forrest Gump”: Winston Groom wrote a beautiful story of a person suffering from autism. The lead role was portrayed exceptionally by Tom Hanks. The story teaches a big lesson in life that even if you have the bare minimum, try to live it to the fullest. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.
Novel-“The Graduate” Movie-“The Graduate”: On AFI’s list, the movie based on the novel with the same title is at seventh position. Author of this ’67 comedy-drama movie must be a happy person. He was Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating. The protagonist Ben (played by Dustin Hoffman) is seduced by an older woman and finally falls in love with her daughter.
Next time we will return with some more fabulous novels brought alive on screen.
For The Reel; Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Around The World In Eighty Days, Charlotte’s Web, Love Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Schindler's List, Devdas, Parineeta, Shatranj Ke Khiladi… They all were based on novels. Beautifully written and wonderfully crafted. For sometime now… Under Lens we would discover some of the novels that were brought live on celluloid.
Novel-“Guide” Movie-“Guide”: Guide was a wonderful movie starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Indian Cinema. It was based on a novel by the same name- Guide. R.K. Narayan was the writer of Guide. The story strikes a perfect blend of two contrasting lives of the same person in present and flashback. In the former he is a revered saint and in the latter he is a shrewd guide.
Novel-“Forrest Gump” Movie-“Forrest Gump”: Winston Groom wrote a beautiful story of a person suffering from autism. The lead role was portrayed exceptionally by Tom Hanks. The story teaches a big lesson in life that even if you have the bare minimum, try to live it to the fullest. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.
Novel-“The Graduate” Movie-“The Graduate”: On AFI’s list, the movie based on the novel with the same title is at seventh position. Author of this ’67 comedy-drama movie must be a happy person. He was Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating. The protagonist Ben (played by Dustin Hoffman) is seduced by an older woman and finally falls in love with her daughter.
Next time we will return with some more fabulous novels brought alive on screen.
For The Reel; Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
8 comments:
looking ahead for some more from ur stock... nice begining...
y only this sujoy is putting up articls?? what abt odr ppl. or is a 1 man venture.
hi rajiv, well suggested there will be other contributors to this as well.
Ali Naqvi
Sujoy...
i wish u will add some more to this series... by d way hw frequently du u update??
Ali is really v hard wrkng guy...
he just a bit busy nowadays
Guide is one of the best novel-based movies,not only in India but internationally as well.Its music reinvigorated SD Burman who was on a downhill those days.
Revolutionary Road is a great movie.
i'm writing a piece on it.I'll send it to your blog's email id.
@vestige: tahnx Guide even had a english version with a seperate director... and it bombed
and ur welcome to send us link to ur articles
@ Amit Saini: we at reel update every fortnightly
our next arrives at June 15 !!
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