In the modern world a lot of films are based on drama, novel and short story. For modern student, the film helps to understand literary work.
Drama and film are parts of fine arts. Both media is deferent from each other. However, each of them tells the similar story in a different way. These two media have lots of fans all over the world. Both of them give their audience/reader artistic plauaser.
To read a book is a great value more than to watch a movie, even if the story being told is basically the same. But today youths see more films than they read the books. To watch the film version of a literary work is also a well-known plan for those who do not have the time or energy to read the original book. But the question is that which form is better literary or film?
Lots of books are adapted for the film and many of the literary work can now be found on film. Can these adaptations be used when teaching literature in schools and colleges?
What differences and similarities are there in these two different media? These are some of the questions this essay seeks to answer.
Films represent sound and novels represent silence. This is a big difference between these two forms. The film audiences could receive the information from sound, dialogue and images, while the novel readers receive only from the textbook.
The sound in the films could create the imaginary environment in which the audiences feel the character’s emotion and connect with films.
The novel could only describe things through words. The visual forms of film and the prose forms of drama both are important.
My research study focuses on adaptations of Shakespeare's works in India by Vishal Bhardwaj. Shakespeare’s Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet have been compared with Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaptations in order to focus on the differences and similarities between the original and adaptation.
I will examine three film adaptations Haider, Omkara, and Maqbool. This three Bollywood film adaption are based on Shakespeare’s trilogy. And these films made in Hindi language. By doing so, this study puts the focus on Bhardwaj’s adaptations and his motivation for adapting Shakespeare.
• Background and statement of the problem
The sound and music was used in films. But Sound and music is not a part of any literary work accepted the verbal description of music and sound.
In this section, some background information will be provided, mainly focusing on why new media should be used in education. Also, the theoretical base, consisting of literacy theory, and theories dealing with the relationship between literature and film, will be presented.
• Research question:-
Main question discussed in my research is different and similarity of the theme in fiction and in the film. Second to discuss the text, then to understand more fully film adaptations.
What are the major differences between the two media?
The chief questions I will investigate are: which adaption is the best, film or Drama?
In testing my hypothesis, I will compare and contrast selected literary work and film adaption, analyzing each of them in a comparative manner. I will devote one section to each literary work and their film adaption for a discussion of the selected works specified above.
• Objectives
This essay aims to search the relationship between literature and film. My research focuses in particular on adaptations of literary works and how they can be different from text. The relationship between literature and film is complex.
This essay does not claim to give a full view on this very broad subject, but it aims to give some light on a few primary differences and similarities between the two media.
To comparing the main characters, setting, dialogue, imagination, the plots of the movies and the film. The purpose of my research is comparing the novel’s main characters to their depiction in the film.
The three major tragedies of Shakespeare namely Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet have been selected and a detailed comparative analysis has been done between the three source-texts and Vishal Bhardwaj’s trilogy of adaptations consisting of Maqbool, Omkara and Haider.
• Study design
My primary research will involve rereading the literary work and reviewing the film adaptation. In terms of secondary research, I have searched the online literary material and for books and articles relevant to my topic. And some of the research books and film review, they should give useful ideas.
First I will watch the film and then read the text. Because this is help to me easily understand the original book, provide knowledge of the story structure and the themes.
After reading the book and watching the movie, I have read both film and book reviews. I will study, information of title, dates, author/director, location, price, plot summary, evaluative comments appear on a website about books or a movie theatre web page.
My research essay methods will consist of interpreting and comparing/contrasting main sources. The first chapter begins with a biographical study of Shakespeare and Vishal Bhardwaj.
The three adaptations and drama comparing in this thesis are:
1. Macbeth / Maqbool:-
First I am comparing William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth and their film adoption of Maqbool in 2004 directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The comparative study between Macbeth and Maqbool considering the opening scenes, the motives of the crime, the art of characterization and the dramatic devices such as imagery, irony, soliloquies and asides, music, setting and ending.
The chapter ends with the discussion on points of contact and departure between the text and its adaptation followed by the conclusion.
2. Hamlet/Haider:-
Next I am comparing William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and their film adoption of Haider in 2004 directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The first chapter contains the comparison of Hamlet and Haider characters. Haider's plot outline is similar (not same) to that of Hamlet. Everything else is different. In spirit the movie is lot similar to the play.
The chapter again follows a similar pattern and is a comparative study of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider. Other than discussing the art of characterization and the different dramatic devices, the chapter has an important section dealing with the political aspects of Kashmir, as Kashmir plays an extremely important role in the adaptation.
The chapter ends with the points of contact and departure between the original source-text and the adapted version.
3. Othello/Omkara:-
Third I am study William Shakespeare’s play Othello and their film adoption of Omkara in 2006 directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Omkara film’s settings are different by culture and love. The difference between play and movie is the characterization of the characters. The major difference is Omkara not being a moor in the film.
The chapter follows a similar pattern and is a comparative analysis between them. It begins with an introduction to Shakespeare’s Othello and the history of its various adaptations coming to the adaptation by Bhardwaj. The chapter studies the motives of crime in the source text and its adaptation.
• References:-
Haider. Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj. Perf. Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Narendra Jha and Kay Kay Menon. 2004. Film.
Maqbool. Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj. Perf. Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Pankal Kapur, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah. 2003. Film.
Omkara. Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj. Perf. Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Narendra Jha and Kay Kay Menon. 2006. Film.
Pandey, Vikas. “Haider: Why is 'Indian Hamlet' controversial?” BBC News, BBC, 7 Oct. 2014, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502393.
Roy, Ken, Margaret Kortes, Harriet Law, and William Shakespeare. Macbeth. Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Canada, 1989. Print.
Shakespeare, William, and Edward Hubler. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New York, N.Y: Published by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books, 1987. Print.
Shakespeare, William, and Russ McDonald. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Print.