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Aj bhi sau sawal puchte h log,

Kaise smjhau inhe?

Wo bs meri guzri zindagi ka ek kissa h.

By jyoti

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"A profit of being on the top is that, you can only see the beauty when you look downwards, not the hag."

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The innocent smile

I visited Udaipur a few months back. Nearby my hotel GoStops Udaipur, a new Cafe was inaugurated. They had hired a young boy. Everytime I went to the shop he used to greet me with a smile. He used to serve us. His innocent smile touched my heart. On the last day of my trip I visited there to see him last time. He was very happy. I gave him a chocolate. I captured his smile in my camera to always keep a part of his innocence with me. Everytime I think of him i feel like going there again.

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Books in the movies shelf

While writing a piece which writer would’ve thought of it becoming a movie one day!

Writer’s write, people read and then the piece of writing grows famous among the world. It comes to the epitome of success when turned to a beautiful movie. There are many popular books that have made it to the movie shelf, for example, Sharad Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel ‘Devdas’ gave inspiration to 3 different movies, Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Half Girlfriend’ became one of the popular story retold among the youth and many more. Does this retelling really brings the justice to the writer? Let’s see.

Hi! I am Jyoti Singh. I am writing this article to share what actually went around with the movie ‘Paheli’ which is said to be inspired from Girish Karnad’s play ‘Naga – Mandala’. I also want to share my point of view towards the topic based on my personal experience.

Paheli is a Bollywood fantasy film released in 2005 starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherji. The story is framed about a Rajasthani marriage of a rich merchant Bhanwarlal’s dutiful son Kishan and young Lachchi. The plot is about the wife who has been left behind by her husband right next day of marriage, who goes for a 5 years long business trip which provides an opportunity to a ghost to take his place due to his own attachment to Lachchi.  The story moves further with Lachchi’s dilemma when the husband comes back from the business trip and finds his wife pregnant.

The play ‘Naga – Mandala’ is also written among a similar plot. A beautiful girl Rani is married to rich man Apanna. After the marriage, the unfaithful husband keeps her locked inside the house while he spends all his time with a concubine in his village which provides a fair opportunity to a shape changing cobra who fell in love with Rani. The plot moves further when rani gets pregnant and Apanna accuses her for adultery and brings the case in front of village panchayat.

The plot among both the stories is comparatively very similar but the endings leaves a very different impact. In the former one Lachchi is taken to be innocent, though she knew about the presence of the ghost since the time he took her husband’s form and still not mentioned it in front of anyone as she also falls in love with him ( nobody else knows about this) and the village folks has to determine who is the real husband and who is the fake one. The movie has an ending in which the ghost manages to take over kishan’s body so that he could live with Lachchi forever. The message about the victory of love is passed out. In the later one, Rani is asked to put her hand in the cobra’s burrow, according to the famous saying, to prove her innocence which later turns her into a goddess in front of the village panchayat and Apanna is cursed for his behaviour towards her. The story comes to two different endings in which Apanna later discovers the truth which makes him realise his mistake. He accepts rani along with the child she is carrying.. The story doesn’t disclose Rani knowing about the cobra impersonating the husband in both the endings.

These two very similar plots have had a lot of conflict when the movie Paheli was released. Paheli was initially blamed to steal the plot from the movie Nagamandala which is the Kannada film showing the exact story of the play. Later it was said that the accusation was wrong. The movie Paheli was proved to be the remake of the 1973 old Hindi film ‘Duvidha’ by Mani Kaul. Duvidha is based on the story written by Vijayan Detha which is similar to a Rajasthani folklore. On the other hand, Nagamandala is itself a well said myth or folklore represented in the writing by Girish karnad and named over a ritual in South Kannada.

There is always one thing or the other which links the stories together. The folklores and myths spread among the society provide a great opportunity to the writers to let the horses of their imagination run wild and come up with a fine piece of their own. They further give inspiration to great movies which are followed by various remakes and inspiring other plots as well. The chain is never ending.

The writings when turns into movies brings the reader’s imagination alive which makes them more connected towards the writer. But not every movie nowadays gives justice to the writer’s hard work. Sometimes just to add up a little bit more entertainment to the movie the director ends up losing the pure essence of the story. I am a very fond reader as well as a movie lover. According to me, Chetan Bhagat’s Half girlfriend is one of the most recent examples. As I had already read the book before the movie came up. The excitement that I had in my mind when I went to see the movie is unexplainable. I wanted to see every character coming alive. My happiness turned down when the ending was completely changed from the original story just to add more spice which somehow made me feel bad. A lot of other reader’s had a similar point of view towards the same.

In order to the books reaching to the movies shelf they go through a lot of amendments. A writer takes a very long time to refine the plot, each and every character is well thought of. Still the writer agrees upon the changes so that the plot could reach to a wider set of audience. As per being a very fond reader I fell that the sacrifice done on the writer’s part is commendable!

Thank you.