LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:3 March 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Ummra-o-Jaan: Adaptation from Static to Dynamic

Samana Asaghar

Abstract

The name of the personality is as famous as Awadh itself. Unrao Jaan is presented in the form of a memoir. The novel is written by M.M.H. Ruswa in 1902. In 1981, Muzaffar Ali gave a visual image of the novel in his screen play Umrao Jaan. The film is considered as an iconic art film of Indian cinema. This paper mainly focuses on the adaptation of the novel to identify how the director interprets, communicates and manipulates the biography of Umrao Jaan in the form of film, how the director visualises the cultural influence in film, how the director uses the technique of adaptation and how closely he represents the novel.

Key words: Unrao Jaan, M.M.H. Ruswa, Film adaptation features, Transposition, Minimum Interference, Commentary, Analogy.

Film Adaptation

Film adaptation is a transfer of code from non-visual to visual. Adaptation may focus on the interpretation of original written work. “A work in one medium that derives its impulse as well as varying number of elements from a work in a different medium” (Koingsbery 6). Deborah Cartmell and Emelaha Whelchan give many ways of assessing adapted work.

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Samana Asaghar, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University
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Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh
India
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