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Topic started by GV (@ hse-london-ppp244335.sympatico.ca) on Sat May 12 23:41:09 .

R(asipuram) K(rishnaswamy) Narayan has passed away, long live his stories and fame. He was one of the greatest story tellers of the world. The (imaginary) village of Malgudi became a landmark all around the world. R.K. Narayan was short listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times, but he never made it all the way (so far). One of the jokes in the literary circles was that the Nobel Committee and the western readers ignored his books because of the misleading titles. Many people apparently thought that they were self-help books on various subjects ( The English Teacher, The Painter of Signs, etc)!!
Let us hope that he wins this well deserved award this year. Better late than never.

Please share your thoughts, opinions and comments about this great Indian.

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From: smith1 on Thu Jul 26 9:57:46 2007. [Full View]

Waiting for the mahatma - one of R.K's finest.

Regarding Guide, it was made in englsih & hindi. The hindi version flopped though.

In fact R.K.Narayan was thoroughly unhappy with the final product that he called up dev anand & fired him.

After that, he announced that none of his novels must be made into films.
From: Wibha on Thu Jul 26 16:32:26 2007. [Full View]

RK sir's book as a movie

good RK sir fired him

i kinda didn't like waiting for the mahatma...............
From: always on Tue Apr 1 1:22:27 2008. [Full View]

Just read Swami and Friends

The first time I read it I liked it. This time I love it The way he portray's Swami is really good. A well defined, whining school boy. When I read it many sentences reminded me of myself.

"Swaminathan seemed to be an expert in thinking out difficulties."

The character that appeals to me the most is Rajam though I don't know why.
From: raagadevan on Sun Jun 1 10:26:47 2008. [Full View]

Memories of Malgudi Man:

http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/06/01/stories/2008060150140500.htm

From: raagas on Mon Oct 20 15:54:32 2008.

smith1 wrote:

Waiting for the mahatma - one of R.K's finest.

Regarding Guide, it was made in englsih & hindi. The hindi version flopped though.

In fact R.K.Narayan was thoroughly unhappy with the final product that he called up dev anand & fired him.

After that, he announced that none of his novels must be made into films.

It is the english version that flopped. The Hindi version was a huge hit.
Yes, RK didnt like final product and that is natural, because he visalized it in different way and the story has been adapted to a movie-screenplay differently. For me, even as a fan of the novel, i did like the film. RK was rightly unhappy inis own way and Dev was right in his own way, becase cinema needs a different language. The movie a quite good. Plz watch it.

From: Sanguine Sridhar on Thu Jan 22 7:25:20 2009. [Full View]

Currently I am reading "The Man Eater of Malgudi"

From: P_R on Sun Jan 25 6:18:54 2009.

raagas wrote:

smith1 wrote:

Waiting for the mahatma - one of R.K's finest.

Regarding Guide, it was made in englsih & hindi. The hindi version flopped though.

In fact R.K.Narayan was thoroughly unhappy with the final product that he called up dev anand & fired him.

After that, he announced that none of his novels must be made into films.

It is the english version that flopped. The Hindi version was a huge hit.
Yes, RK didnt like final product and that is natural, because he visalized it in different way and the story has been adapted to a movie-screenplay differently. For me, even as a fan of the novel, i did like the film. RK was rightly unhappy inis own way and Dev was right in his own way, becase cinema needs a different language. The movie a quite good. Plz watch it.

I think it is in Salt and Sawdust, that RKN writes about the making of the film. He does not have good words for Dev Anand but it makes lovely reading.

The problems start with the location hunt where apparently someone rebuffed RKN's objections to the location of choice with "how do you know where Malgudi is ?"

Laughing

And apparently Dev Anand talked him into a percentage contract with the lines "the sky is the limit" and if the final accounts as stated to RKN when his royalties were calculated were to be believe : "the sky was so low I could poke it with my umbrella" (sic)

Smile

From: complicateur on Sun Jan 25 13:07:20 2009. [Full View]

In a collection of passages RKN had written a description of how they filmed a scene indicating conflict by likening it to 2 wild animals (a lion and tiger if I remember correctly) going at it. It was one of the most hilariously scathing indictments of the film industry I have read.
From: chevy on Mon Jan 26 1:29:13 2009. [Full View]

I want "The dark room" soft copy or ebook..
From: Wibha on Mon Jan 26 1:33:18 2009. [Full View]

chevy wrote:

I want "The dark room" soft copy or ebook..

I'm looking for it too. I could find only Bachelor of arts

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