Astrologer

Hello readers:) This blog is a response blog which is a task given by my teacher on An Astrologer's day by R. K. Narayan. 

In this blog we saw one short movie based on this short story so we have a task to give some answers on that and also a very important overview on watching movies and reading original text. 

R. K. Narayan

R. K. Narayan was born on 10 October 1906 and passed away in 2001. In his long career he published fourteen novels, over two hundred short stories, a memoir, two travel books, innumerable essays, and two plays. His first novel was Swami and Friends (1935). His last published work was Grandmother's Tale (1992), which in many ways reinforced the concerns and motifs of his writing in his long career—themes like exile and return, education (in the widest sense of the term), woman and her status in the society, myths and the ancient Indian past, tradition and modernity, Malgudi and its culture, appearance and reality, the family and so on. These have been Narayan's consistent concerns in a career spanning over nearly seventy years. In this deep ploughing of a small plot of literary land, Narayan almost resembles Jane Austen who too, in a somewhat shorter career, painted in varying colours a small canvas of quintessential English life and manners. While the range of Austen or Narayan may be small, their depth places them in the ranks of the truly great novelists of their times. Perhaps no special case needs to be made for Austen because of the enormous scholarship on her. One might however need to highlight Narayan's excellences. In our postmodernist times a writer like him, who is not obscure, difficult or dense in his writings, is likely to be less in favour, though recent scholarship has begun to evaluate him in post-colonial-post-modern [‘pocomo’] terms.

About Short-story

An Astrologer's Day is a thriller, suspense short story by author R. K. Narayan. While it had been published earlier, it was the titular story of Narayan's fourth collection of short stories published in 1947 by Indian Thought Publications. It was the first chapter of the world famous collection of stories Malgudi Days which was later telecasted on television in 2006.

An Astrologer's Day by R. K. Narayan Country

India Language English Genre(s) Thriller, short story, suspense Published in India Publisher

Indian Thought Publications Media type Print

Publication date 1947 Fallon and at all. described the work as "a model of economy without leaving out the relevant detail."Themes found in An Astrologer's Day recur frequently throughout Narayan's work. The story was adapted into a 2019 Kannada movie Gara. 

Question and answer

1)How faithful is the movie to the original short story?

In the original text description of market Bombay icecream and saffron colour scheme which described by writer very much faithful and taking readers to their which is going on nice description on other hand movie have limited description they only describe with moving camera and shouting of seller's to attract buyers which is not seen in movie and the light of other man which is used by astrologer. If any one does not read real text and only watches movies then the movie creates more suspense to go to the next level. 

2)After watching the movie, has your perception about the short story, characters or situations changed?

After watching movie there are some change which I think that is change which director wants to create purposely like actor is choosen as best play this role his acting is good in the story this only one day all incident or we can say whole story is finished in midday to night but in the movie one was full introduced astrologer and his work his life and the next over climax. 

3)Do you feel ‘aesthetic delight’ while watching the movie? If yes, exactly when did it happen? If no, can you explain with reasons?

No, I am not feeling any aesthetic delight because an astrologer trying to kill GuruNayak then he escapes from that place after so many years of life gives him another chance to say sorry Or feel sorry for that and he again escapes for the truth. 

4)Does screening of movie help you in better understanding of the short story?

Yes, screening always help for better understanding while viewing anything over mind is clear for that particular thing. In this short story , the description of an astrologer is clear after watching the movie. 

5)Was there any particular scene or moment in the story that you think was perfect?

I think ever scene and moment was perfect in the story. 

6)If you are director, what changes would you like to make in the remaking of the movie based on the short story “An Astrologer’s Day” by R.K.Narayan?

No doubt Director making good movie but if it was me as a director than i making that astrologer have hallucinations about Guru Nayak then he comes front of him he was apologize which he was did in past then Guru Nayak forgive him both become friends. 

Thank you