Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics

by Pauwels; Heidi R.M.

• ISBN13: 9780415447416
• ISBN10: 0415447410
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Preface and acknowledgments	p. xiii
Transliteration and abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Indian epics in film	p. 17
Bending the Bharata: two uncommon cinematic adaptations	p. 19
Family, feminism, and film in remaking Ramayana	p. 42
Casting classical Sanskrit drama	p. 55
Sakuntala: the look and the image in literature, theater, and cinema	p. 57
Mrcchakatikam to Utsav: re-creation of a Sanskrit classic by Girish Karnad	p. 76
Saints on the screen	p. 97
Bhakti songs recast: Gulzar's Meera movie	p. 99
Genre and themes from "Indo-Islamic" culture	p. 121
Religious culture and folklore in the Urdu historical drama Anarkali, revisited by Indian cinema	p. 123
From ghazal to film music: the case of Mirza Ghalib	p. 147
Classics from colonial literature	p. 171
Remembering, repeating, and working through Devdas	p. 173
The political aesthetic of nation and gender in Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali	p. 191
Agenda-driven literature	p. 203
Lyrically speaking: Hindi film songs and the progressive aesthetic	p. 205
Dharmputra and the Partition of India	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 239
Index	p. 249
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