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Bollywood Adaptations of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author(s) -
Dutta Shanta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12298
Subject(s) - hindi , sociocultural evolution , literature , history , psychology , linguistics , art , philosophy , sociology , anthropology
The cinematic potential of Thomas Hardy's novels has long been recognized. Indeed, quite a few of his novels open with the reader/viewer getting a glimpse of a panoramic sweep of the English countryside, often with a solitary human figure silhouetted against a winding country lane. Focusing on two Hindi films, this essay considers ways in which Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry, has responded to Tess of the d'Urbervilles by adapting it to the Indian sociocultural milieu.