Literature and Cinema
Cinema and Literature: Questions of Adaptation , A seminar held at FTII, Pune, India
Javed Saab said,
“Jab Gulzaar sahab kisi film ke liye koi script likhte hai to woh literature nahi hoti aur wahi script agar koi publishing house panno pe chaap deti hai to woh literature ho jaati hai.”
“When it comes to adaptation, Hindi cinema could not get to the deep-rooted sensibilities, while it is very successful with regional films. Many young directors, including Farhaan, have told me many times that they cannot make a film on something they dont understand and they havent lived in. As far as literature is concerned I expect directors to first understand it, relate to it and then get into adapting it.”
Guzaar Saab said,
“In Godaan, the novel, one of the characters becomes communist and joins a trade union but in its cinematic version there is another track, a comedy character which is played by Mahmood. But that inclusion is done so well it does not appear jarring at all. It merges with the script. So I want to say when you adapt something usse chedo nahi aur cheddo to samjhne aur jeene ke baad. Like in Anuraag Kashyap’s Dev D, the characters are genuine. because the charecters belong to this age”.
More quotes can be read here.
Seminar had a session on Folklore for cinema folks.
Famous director Mani Kaul who has made Duvidha, based on an Indian folk tale, said
“I think here, it is not the question of the connection between literature and film, but of cinema and language. All our traditional art form, including folklore, have emerged from literature,” .
Another reporting can be read here.
Tags: Anurag Kashyap, Dev D, Dvidha, FTII Pune, Godaan, Gulzaar, Javed Akhtar, Mahmood, mani kaul
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
See this link to see mani kaul speaking of cinema
http://www.cinemadebate.org/Site-1/Home.html