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Ph.D.
(Social Sciences &Humanities)
CHETAN BHAGAT: TEXT TO SCRIPT

Ph.D. Scholar : Joshi Dharmagna Devikantbhai
Research Supervisor : Dr. Usha V. Kaushik

Regi. No.: 14146071004
Abstract :
Present research work throws light on the film adaptation theory concerning Chetan
Bhagat’s four novels and their four film adaptations respectively. For this experiment,
descriptive, conceptual as well as analytical research methodologies were adapted. The
relevant information on the present topic has been gathered from the four novels by
Chetan Bhagat and four films adapted from those novels, reference books, websites, Ph.
D. thesis, film reviews, interviews with English teachers, and a good number of research
articles and research papers from renowned national and international journals for the
study.

The thesis is an amalgamation of six different chapters like a tree with six flourishing
branches. Each chapter is an inseparable part of the whole picture as each one of them
assembles connected pieces. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the upcoming
chapters giving an outline of Film Adaptation Theory and its types, adapted films in
Bollywood, the difference between the text of a novel and script of a film, parameters to
identify this difference, introduction to the author and his four novels, films adapted from
these novels, etc. The next four chapters present a comparative analysis of a novel and
its adapted film in the light of selected parameters like theme, story- beginning, middle,
and end, characterization, costume, the role of sound and music, point of view, flashback,
text, and script, etc. Through this analysis, the researcher has done a comparison
between the four novels of Chetan Bhagat and their film adaptations to understand the
difference between the text of a literary work and the script of a film. As per the findings
of the study, the researcher has concluded that novels are better than films. No doubt,
films like 3 Idiots, Hello, Kai Po Che! and 2 States are faithful adaptations of the source
novels but it is the language i.e., TEXT of a novel that provides a base to the SCRIPT of a
film. The result of this study opens a new area of research in the field of adaptation of
Indian novels into films which further can be reference material for students of literature
as well as film studies.

Key words: Novels, Films, Text, Script, Adaptation, Parameters, Comparative Analysis

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