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Why are the names different?


Is there a reason why Maitreyi has a different name in the film? Also Chabu...she's called Lilou in the film. Does this happened for a particular reason? Did Maitreyi Devi not agree with the film?

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I don't know about the film, as to what was Maitreyi Devi's response to using real names was. Or whether she was consulted at all?! Because this film is based on Eliad's book, 'la Nuit Bengali' where Eliad called himself Allan and left the other names of the other characters as they were in reality. While in 1974 Maitryei Devi wrote a book based on this particular theme only. I don't know how you'd or have reacted to those two books but after I read them I felt I'm reading the same stories. In Maitryei Devi's book she calls herself Amrita and leaves the other names real.

So may be she didn't want the film makers to use real names.

Excuse my English, it's not my native tongue.

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