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International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences Vol-6, Issue-3; May-Jun, 2021 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijels.com/ Journal DOI: 10.22161/ijels Peer-Reviewed Journal IJELS-2021, 6(3), (ISSN: 2456-7620) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.63.42 309 Cinematic adaptation from Literature: A Study of Chetan Bhagat’s Novels Monika Chaudhary Research Scholar, M.Phil., H.P.U. Shimla, India Received: 22 Mar 2021; Received in revised form: 07 May 2021; Accepted: 25 May 2021; Available online: 14 May 2021 ©2021 The Author(s). Published by Infogain Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abstract— The Present research paper aims at highlighting the cinematic representation of the works of Chetan Bhagat. The major emphasis is laid on the Chetan Bhagat writing which has been adapted into movies. Like this vibrant media and entertainment (M&E) industry provides attractive growth opportunities for global corporation. Bollywood, as the Hindi film industry is popularly known is the largest contributor to the Film industry and language cinema industries such as Bengali, Bhojpuri, Marathi and Gujarati. Although, this industry is the largest in the world in terms of the number of films it produces. It’s not only Bollywood, even most of the successful Hollywood films are based on literary works. But film makers satisfy the hunger of a large heterogeneous audience with the element of Entertainment. The idea of screen adaptations is dates back years ago when people had limited options for entertainment and recreational activities. The study is based on movies made in Bollywood which have been inspired by the writings of novelists. This is a qualitative research in which Chetan Bhagat’s novel Five Point Someone, 2 States: The story of My Marriage, 3 Mistakes of my life, Half girlfriend and Revolution 2020 have been taken up by Bollywood film makers to make movies 3 Idiots,2 States, Kai Po Che, Half Girlfriend and Revolution 2020 respectively. Chetan Bhagat, pioneers the way towards new era where he has been picked up by the Bollywood maker consistently. Whatever might be the reason, he is capable enough to shatters the all critics opinion on the ground of his success. Keywords— Cinema, Mass and Media, Bollywood, Vibrant, Recreational. I. INTRODUCTION Chetan bhagat, presently, a leading and popular contemporary writer in Indian Fiction is one of the bestselling novelists today. Since his works refuse to easy categorization into canonical Indian English Novel, he is labelled as best-seller Novelist. In order to cater a huge audience, film makers from all over the world have adopted literature writings for movie making. The key purpose of these screen adaptations lies in giving visual appeal to the black and white words of the author’s writings. Furthermore, there are restricted readers for different genres and subject of novel and literature respectively. Audiences are very important to grasp the content of media say as print, electronic and digital. Media these days is working and providing content keeping in view the target audience because it is the audience that makes the content popular to read and share. Cinema is the important medium to entertain and educate spectators by providing them valuable information. Cinema falls under different genres like romance, action, thriller, comedy, off beat, cult, classic, animated etc. considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience. There may be two simple reasons why film makers choose novels or literature to make movies. First, Novels have in-built audience e.g. Chetan Bhagat’s series which has been adapted by film makers to make a movie and showcase on big screen. The second reason is that the story is told which means the content is there; it just needs to be adapted but the process is not easy as it sounds. It has been observed that literature adaptation is not a new concept in Indian Cinema. Since the inception of Indian Cinema, film makers are taking references of literature and novels as the story line of their projects. In fact, the first ever full-length Indian silent feature film was an adaptation from a mythological character Raja Harishchandra. Since then, Indian filmmakers have directly or indirectly taken references from various Monika Chaudhary Cinematic adaptation from Literature: A Study of Chetan Bhagat’s Novels IJELS-2021, 6(3), (ISSN: 2456-7620) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.63.42 310 mythological and social stories in order to make their films (kaur 1). Bhagat’s first novel Five Point someone was published in 2004. The novel has been popular, taken up by masses and Bhagat became the famous overnight. This novel is dealing with the complexity and unheard challenges of the educational institutes in India. When the people read it, they can easily correlate it with their lives experience. Thus, Chetan Bhagat became a brand of novel writings. So Filmmaker saw him as an opportunity and sooner in 2009 Film adaptation of Five Point Someone converted into movie 3 Idiots by Rajkumar Hirani. His second Novel One Night @ Call Center published in 2005, which is dealing with the contemporary issues like urbanization and metropolitan lives. This novel depicts the plundering situations of the people lives. Like, they have becomes modern in their outlook but still struggling in their traditional thoughts and mindset inwardly. This was also an interesting concept by Bhagat which was again adapted into movies by Atul Agnihotri named Hello in 2008. Kai Po Che is the third film based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) directed by Abhishek Kapoor, and the movie was subsequently released in 2013. The phrase Kai Po Che, which translates to “I have cut”, is a victory chant associated with kite-flying, a popular sport in Gujarat. The kite metaphor in the novel/movie refers to the three mistakes Govind makes along the way. Although, this novel has highlighted some national issues of 2002 Godhra riots in Gujrat and cricket obsession in India. Nevertheless, Bhagat has interwoven a thrilling love story in between all these issues. In the same series 2 States is based on the novel by the same name published in the year 2009. This Indian romantic comedy film was directed by Abhishek Verman. This novel is a memoir based on the inter-caste marriage scenario in the Indian society. Film makers again find it interesting and made it into movie in 2014. Even though this topic was raised earlier by various novelist but the way Bhagat has instilled the commitment in love relationship and respects for their elders through his characters no one else has done. And the next one is Half Girlfriend (pub. In 2014), and was directed by the Mohit Suri released movie with the same name. His Half Girlfriend is again converted into movies in 2017. This novel has given the cultural shock to patriarchal society by giving the Live-in relationship a thought and acknowledgment. There are two more novels of Chetan Bhagat which are in the process of being made into movies: Revolution2020 (pub. in 2011) which is being directed by Raj Kumar Gupta. It is interesting to mention here that Chetan Bhagat wrote a script for the popular Bollywood movie Kick released in the year 2015 (Web). This chronological trend of Bhagat writings has portrayed him as a writer of the Bollywood. Even though many critics does not consider him as a literary writer but his ability to appealing masses and his best selling title shattering the all criticism. One has rarely seen such an ongoing and prolonged relationship between a writer and films, especially in India. Curiously enough, it leads up to the question as to how his works have been frequently picked up by Bollywood film makers for making films? Whether his works are replete with contemporary issues which are attractive to Bollywood or whether the language used by him in his novels lends itself easily into writing screenplays/scripts for movies? To find out these answers let’s have a look upon some of his interviews: The trend of movie making which is based on the novels has grown rapidly in present time. This is very true in the case of novels written by Chetan Bhagat. In the words of Boski Gupta, young readers love Chetan Bhagat, critics hate him but there is hardly anyone who doesn’t know Chetan Bhagat. He touches the life of almost every Indian either through his books, newspaper columns, TV appearances, and social media or through his association with Bollywood. In one of his interviews with Taran he was asked why all his books could be made into movies? He replied: “I always had a plot driven, fast paced stories style that suits the Bollywood. However, I still write the stories I want to write, and even do a lot of non-fiction columns and motivational talks that have nothing to do with Bollywood.” Unlike Hollywood, Hindi film industry lacks books-based movies. Bhagat argues that there is not enough content that is suited for films. Also, the English to Hindi transition is not so easy. Finally, it is a cultural thing where film makers have not looked to literature so much. On being asked in an interview whether Bhagat’s novels are invariably adapted for cinema, and about his uploads/Litterature/ cinematic-adaptation-from-literature-a-study-of-chetan-bhagat-x27-s-novels.pdf