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HarperCollins India publishes Shashi Deshpande’s novel Strangers to Ourselves



2024-03-27 08:41:59 Art & Entertainment

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HarperCollins India has optioned film rights for acclaimed writer Shashi Deshpande?s novel Strangers to Ourselves to Karma Features, known for making award-winning feature films such as Shahid, Aligarh and Citylights.

Commenting on the acquisition, Hansal Mehta, director at Karma Features said, ?I?ve been a huge admirer of Shashi Deshpande?s writing for years. Her characters are complex beings. Her exploration of relationships is incisive and has a lot of depth. I was looking for an opportunity to adapt her work and I found it in Strangers to Ourselves. The relationship of oneself with internal conflict, with the past and with death is complicated, and this book will help me explore that with a lot of humanity and a sprinkling of great characters.?

HarperCollins India published Strangers to Ourselves in the year 2016 to much acclaim. DNA described it as an ?easy, engrossing read?, while the Indian Express said it is ?a whirlwind romance ? in familiar terrain, exploring the essential loneliness of human beings?.

Ananth Padmanabhan, CEO, HarperCollins India, said, ?We are delighted that Strangers to Ourselves will be made into a motion picture by Hansal Mehta. A big thank you to Kwan for facilitating this. Strangers to Ourselves is a complex and yet real story of relationships and will be a delight to audiences that love mature cinema.?

Shashi Deshpande said, ?For me, Strangers to Ourselves started with Shree Hari Pandit, talented ambitious musician and his instant and passionate love for Aparna Dandekar, an oncologist and a divorcee, with no illusions about marriage. The novel went on to embrace others, like Jyoti, Aparna?s patient and then friend, struggling with cancer and Aparna?s dramatist father and her mother, the break-up of whose marriage traumatized Aparna. Music, love, friendship, and the struggle to live run through the novel like the strains of a taanpura.

?Hansal Mehta expressed his desire to make a movie of this novel. I had heard very favourable reports of Aligarh and Shahid. But this was a different kind of subject and I wondered how he would deal with this novel. But during our conversation I got a glimpse of his sensitivity to literature and am now looking forward with great interest to seeing what he will make of it. It will be his own creation, I am sure, but close to the spirit of my novel I am equally sure. I wish him luck.?

Company :-Harper Collins India

User :- Ronjini Bora

Email :-Ronjini.Bora@harpercollins-india.com






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