The recent release of “The White Tiger” film which is the adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel of the same name set a new standard for films. With appreciation from everyone and everywhere, it was a clear sign that the movie managed to touch many. The movie represented the words in the book perfectly well. That movie is one of those few, which was adapted from a book. Now next we have another movie, “The Girl On The Train” starring Parineeta Chopra, that book too is the adaptation of a novel by the same name from author Paula Hawkins.
The trailer of the movie gave us a glimpse of how the psychological thriller will be turned into. These two movies seemingly have given the book adaptations a new name in Indian Cinema. Earlier there weren’t many book to film adaptations in Indian Cinema. Things changed only when the internet started playing its role in it. We started having more and more web-series and with it, the journey of exploring new genres and stories began.
Indian film industry over the years has explored various genres but the romantic and action genres were the two most common ones to be explored before. It has been done so much that people started deviating from it and it became the right time for OTT to step up the game.
OTT started the game of action, thriller genre and came various new web-series, pathbreaking ones too. These received praises from everyone, but then again it all started to become a routine. Those were new, but it still had the same type of suspense which made you feel like, “is it Deja Vu?”.
So now, here’s the case why not utilise the amazing books that’s with us. Yes, even those books have the same kind of genres, like in films but again these will be completely different territory that we step into. Movies and web-series that we gather from books can give us an even bigger audience. These can bring us a chance of renewing the type of content that’s already present.
Ultimately for a country that has such a huge film industry, the book adaptation and how grand it is made will surely attract a lot more viewers towards our film industry.