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Abhishek Varman directed movie 2 states.
The 2014 release starred Arjun Kapoor
and Alia Bhatt along with Revathi and
Amrita Singh. In 2017, Mohit Suri directed
Vikrant Massey, Shraddha Kapoor and
Arjun Kapoor in Half Girlfriend, based on
Bhagat’s novel of the same name. It fared
reasonably okay at the counters.
Deepa Mehta’s films Earth & Water are from novels written by
Bapsi Sidhwa
The 1968 film Sarawatichandra, directed
by Govind Saraiya was based on a Gujarati
novel of the same name by Govardhanram
Madhavram Tripathi. The film starring
Nutan, Manish and Ramesh Deo had
unforgettable music and songs by Kalyanji
Anandji.
My all time beloved film would be
Sukhwant Dhadda’s adaptation of Rajinder
Directors succeeded in taking Bhagat’s mediocre books to creat-
ing films of a superlative level Singh Bedi’s Urdu novella Ek Chadar Maili
There have been so many mentionable Si. The performances were tremendous
and noteworthy adaptations. From and the film tore at your insides. The cast
clusters, to stand–alone movies. comprised Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor,
The 2005 novel Q & A by diplomat Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Poonam
Vikas Swarup was adapted as Slumdog Dhillon.
Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle in
2008.
Aisha, a romantic comedy directed
Rajshri Ojha, and produced by Anil Kapoor
in 2010, is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s
novel Emma. Aisha had Sonam Kapoor and
Abhay Deol in the cast among others
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s inspiration for
his favourite film Saawariya is Fyodor
Dostoevsky’s Russian romantic short story Sukhwant Dhadda’s adaptation of Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Urdu
White Nights. novella Ek Chadar Maili Si tore at your insides
Both Deepa Mehta’s films Earth (1998) Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda the film (1992)
and Water (2005) are from novels written (The Seventh Horse of the Sun) was based
by Bapsi Sidhwa - Cracking India, and on the prolific writer Dharamvir Bharati’s
Water – A Novel. She had stellar casting in 1952 novel if the same name. The story is
both films which were unconventional to an amazing maze of plots intermeshed in
say the least, but effectively voiced crises small town india. Shyam Benegal’s film
engagingly and artistically too. stars Raghubir Yadav, Rajit Kapoor and
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