Hindi movie-adoption of books

15Oct,2023

Parineeta (The Married Woman) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 Bengali novella of the same name.

Parineeta

7 Khoon Maaf is an adaptation of the short story "Susanna's Seven Husbands" by Ruskin Bond.

7 Khoon Maaf

Saawariya is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language romance film produced and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1848 short story White Nights.

Sawaariya

The story of Devdas was based on the novel of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhya of the same title.

Devdas

Omkara is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language crime drama adapted from William Shakespeare's Othello, co-written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

Omkara

Set amidst the insurgency-hit Kashmir conflicts of 1995, Haider is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

Haider

Adapted loosely from Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone, the film stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the titular roles.

3 idiots

It is an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma with the same tone as the cult Hollywood film Clueless which is also an adaptation of Austen's novel.

Aisha

Helmed by Sujoy Ghosh, 'Jaane Jaan' is a suspense thriller based on Keigo Hagashino's bestselling novel 'The Devotion Suspect X'.

Jaane Jaan