Should I read the book first or watch the movie first ?
Will I enjoy the movie better without reading the book or is it completely okay to read the book before watching the movie..??
shareYou've left reading the book till too late. Now that the movie is here, you might as well watch the movie. If you like it enough, you could then go read the book.
shareI've read a lot of Ruskin Bond's short stories in the collection Delhi Is Not Far : The Best Of Ruskin Bond but I don't remember reading this one. Was this in it? I think all of his other Novellas and short stories were there but then I read it a long time back.
A job well done combined with the room on the roof and some other rusky stories could translate well into a movie.
I dont think its a book, its just a short story that Vishal stretched into a sweet movie
shareya I know. Ruskin bond generally just writes short stories. Does anyone know if this one ie "Blue umbrella" was in the collection "Delhi is not far and other stories". I used to have that.
I am crazy about Bharadwaaj and all he does.
so I read Othello after Omkara, Macbeth after Maqbool and now Blue umbrella after well uhh blue umbrella.
it's a very short novel. It wasn't in a collection.
Bhaaradwaaj has expanded the theme in every possible way and blown it up into this cute litl film. The book is kind of dry. I mean, there are no litl bits of subtleties that children don't care about in Bond's book. Well that's where the idea of adaptaion comes in, and with one of India's best screenwriters on the job, it turns into gold.
In Omkara, Wishaal and ofcourse Saif Ali khaan turned the character of Langda Tyaagi into this majestic larger than life villain. In blue umbrella, Nandakishore Khatri gets a similar center stage treatment, and what Pankaj Kapoor makes of it is beyond words.
ohh...the question.
should you read it beforehand / or should you have done so?
naa. not really. U'll finish the book in like 40-50 minutes. the film is atleast double the length. this rarely happens. Isn't this cool. While adapting an adult piece of literature to a film, you skip a lot of things; and for a children's work, u simply add on to it.
blue umbrella was a short story and was published in the penguin collection "Delhi is not far and other short stories by Ruskin Bond".
But I guess if you buy books after they're made into movies you will be taken for a ride.
You must've been living under a rock (if you live in India) to not have read a Ruskin Bond story, why even the prescribed texts(for almost all boards) have quite a few Bond stories, "The Kite Maker" in class 11, "The umbrella man" in 10, "The Night Train at Deoli" & Time Stops at Shamli.