CHOKHER BALI: FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

Abstract The relation between literature and cinema has, over the last few decades, become the object of increased attention among practitioners of both the art forms, critics and various scholars. While the cinema and literature both aim to express concrete situations involving the development of a plot and the exposition of character and environment, the medium through which they seek to accomplish these ends are entirely different. The proposed paper aims to explore with a comparative perspective Tagore's novel "Chokher Bali" and RituparnoGhosh's film with the same name."Chokher Bali"or A Grain of Sand is a story of an extra-marital affair. But calling it just an extra marital affair story would be grave injustice. This is a story of love and what people can do for it.Lush and slow-moving, Chokher Bali, subtitled "a passion play", is a gorgeous chamber piece suffused with sensuality and its denial. This paper makes an attempt to highlight the intricacies of human emotions and relations in the light of both; the novel and the film. This paper endeavours to examine the film and the novel on the parameters like chronology, verbal and visuals, depiction of the raised issue, portrayal of characters, conclusion, and language and style