Prepared By: Gohil Namrata R.Paper no.:15/ Mass Media and

CommunicationEnrolment No.: G13101010

Year: 2014-2015Roll No.: 18M.A./Part:2

Sem.:4

“The Study of Literature casts light on the meaning in the film, and the study of

the film can illuminate the full value of the Literature.”

-Ronald Perrier, From Fiction to Film

Narrative

Structure

The Impression of Reality

Literature & Cinema

Role of Mahabharata & Ramayanain Indian Cinema

Raja Harishchandra

Dadasaheb Falke

Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian Silent Film, directed and produced by Indian icon Dadasaheb Falke, and is based on the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics.

From 1913 to 1925, Indian Cinema based on ‘Historical Epics’.

Raju- Dev AanandWaheeda Rehman- Rosie Marco/Miss NaliniLeela Chitnis- Raju’s MotherKishore Sahu- MarcoGajanan Jagirdar - BholaAnwarHussain -GaffoorUlhas- Raju’s Maternal UncleRashid Khan-JosephKrishan Dhawan- Inspector GirdhariRam Avtar- PanditNarbada Shankar-ShastriNazir Kashmiri-Villager

Similarities: The Guide Movie & Novel

In Both story place setting of India.

Raju as Tour Guide.

Unhappy Marriage Life of Rosie and Marco.

Raju becomes Holy man.

Philosophical End.

Difference: The Guide Movie & Novel

• In the film, Raju meets a celebrity death surrounded by his near and dear ones and the media with rain ending the drought in the village. However, in the novel, this event is anonymous with an unclear ending about his death or the end of the drought.

• In the novel, Raju is shown to woo Rosie, but in the movie, Rosie is already unhappy with her marriage. Upon seeing her husband with another woman, she leaves him and goes to Raju.

Hamlet-Haider Claudius- KurramGertrude-GhazalaOphelia-ArshiaPolonius- Pervaze

•The play compares with other competing plays/actors/playcompanies. The movie compares/references other movies/actors.

•There is a very powerful use of blank verses in the play. Movie to certain extent uses blank verses very well.

•Both, play and the movie, are more than just stories. Apart from playing at psychological level, both have strong references and commentary about to the prevailing social conditions.

•Both, play and the movie, leave ends open for audience's interpretation.

•Gravedigger scene is as chilling in the play as in the movie.

Similarities: ‘Hamlet’ & ‘Haider’

Difference: ‘Hamlet’ & ‘Haidar’• The Movie set in a different era. Hence the movie

brings its own variations to how plot plays out and brings in changes due to changed moral and value system.

• Hamlet sees a ghost, which leads the audience to question the sanity of Hamlet.

• The backdrop, people of Kashmir, has a very strong role in the movie.

• There are certain characters missing in the movie, especially Horatio- a good friend of Hamlet.

• The Climax is significantly different.

Difference: ‘Hamlet’ & ‘Haidar’• In the play, Haider doesn’t kill the Salmans. Or at least

we are lead to believe so.

• The revenge system in Shakespearean era was quite different than what we see in the movie. Hence climax is quite different.

• The relationship between Haider and Ghazala are different than what it is in the play.

• Few deaths do not have correspondence with the deaths in the play.

• ‘Hamlet’ regards tragedy where major characters dies-unlike movie.

• There are more soliloquy than shown in the movie.

“What happened in Kashmir is a very human

tragedy, but no one is talking about it. But once

you talk of it, You are released from it. What I am saying (in Haider) is truth. It should be like a balm on

a wound.”

Vishal Bhardwaj

Film Director

Conclusion

• That Said, when one realizes the difference between the means of expression mentioned here, you can glimpse the rich contribution that art brings to one another . In fact, the viewer must not only interested in the well-filmed, mainly due to worry as it is being filmed, which suggests much broader evaluative implications.

Continue…• In many contemporary films, in significant detail is

provided by a camera that operates, which invades us, which compels us to think, that excites us and coerce the emotion, suffering, who accuses and reveals the complicated situation expressed on screen. This type of work , the characters are not the result of a trial, it’s complex characters.

Citation

Difference: The Guide movie and Novelhttps://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?

Similaries & Difference: Hamlet and Haiderwww.quora.com/How-similar-is-Haider-to-Hamlet

Quotation: Vishal BhardwajKinglemag.in/haider-vishal-bhardwaj-challenge-dominant-narrative/

Submitted To: S.B. Gardi,Department of English,M.K. Bhavnagar University,Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India).

Email Id: gohilnamrata1992@gmail.com