Indian cinema is an industry which seamlessly gets inspired
from excellence outside. Be it real stories, true incidents or literature.
Bollywood is a place that has showcased and nurtured other streams of talent on
the screen by adapting their synopsis from books and novels.
The novel is to readers and movie is to viewers while there has
been a big surge of audience gushing in theatres, more than a fraction of readers
have ingested curiosity and money for reading popular novels that directly
implies a lack of deserving attention towards books. Novels indeed have a big
base of readers but most of the books deserve to come under the limelight of
cinematography to garner more attention.
However, novels have set an inspirational platform for the
Bollywood industry to adapt and cater to the entertainment needs of the audience
by sharing each other’s ideas and tactics parallelly.
These are few of the novels which have grabbed great reverence amongst readers and have been applauded by audiences by inspiring Bollywood industry to adapt their core stories.
Chetan Bhagat’s novels
This phenomenal author has transformed himself into a developed screen-writer who is regarded majorly for writing Indian –English novels that gel up huge appreciation amongst the readers. His books are glued to the young minds of Indian youth revolving around passion, career and romance. This author seamlessly gave Bollywood scripts for 4 movies which emerged as big blockbusters.
One night at Call Center – Hello
Five Point Someone – 3 Idiots
2 States
3 Mistakes Of My Life – Kai Po Che
Half Girlfriend
Sharad Chandra Chattopadhyay Books
Sharad was a Bengali novelist who gained reverence
amidst literature in India with his enticing storytelling that contributed a lot in
framing the overtly dramatic screenwriting of Bollywood movies like Devdas and Parineeta. Devdas emerged as a successful movie with its brilliant
70mm film story adapted from the Bengali popular novel Parineeta while another 1914 novel
of Sharad left the audience gasping at its screenplay.
Devdas
Parineeta
3.
Emma
This popular novel by Jane Austen has been transformed
into a lifted motion picture by Bollywood. The movie Aisha was based on the
Hollywood ‘Clueless’ which is inspired by the novel Emma. This movie outshined
Sonam Kapoor in the industry and contributed towards producing one of the best
novel adaptations.
Emma – Aisha
Hamlet
The Bollywood movie ‘Haider’ put an Indian twist in
the novel Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The director called this movie a
fast-loose adaptation of Hamlet which grafts its source story inorganically.
This Shakespeare legacy has been carried out by Bollywood from Hamlet to Haider
earning this movie various awards and bestowing the 2014 year in its name while this movie helped Shahid Kapoor emerge back in Bollywood.
Hamlet – Haider