Mumbai,
April 23rd,2019: Riding on the success of book adaptations
like The Final Callbased on Priya
Kumar’s book ‘I Will Go With You – The Flight of a Lifetime’ andParchhayee – Ghost stories by Ruskin Bond,
ZEE5 now announces eight new adaptations by renowned
authors this World Book Day.
The rights for the books namely The Wise Man Said – Priya Kumar, Hutatma – Meena Deshpande, Skyfire – Aroon Raman, SharadinduBandyopadhyay’s
historical novels- TungabhadrarTeere
and Kaler Mandira, Mission to Pakistan - Late Maloy Krishna
Dhar, Karkatkranti-Indranil Sanyal and Seven
Days Without You– Anmol Rana have been procured and the content
from each of them is in different phases of production.
Each of thesebest sellers have been written by
renowned authors and the adaptions include stories across genres with each book
being carefully handpicked.
·
Loaded
with wisdom, surprise, humor and an eagerness to embrace life, Priya Kumar’s The Wise Man Said is a collection of
twelve such adventures of Sammy, where his journey becomes his greatest
achievement—a life well lived
·
Created
by award winning producer Shabina Khan, Skyfireby
Aroon Ramanis a heart-stopping sci-fi thriller that will chill you to the bone
·
Set
against the flaring backdrop of the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Hutatma is a fictional story of a
real-life incident of Vidyut, a young girl who gets on a quest to avenge her
father’s untimely death in the Maharashtra riots
·
Kaler Mandira is based in the 5thcentury
Gupta dynasty's rule in the attacks of the Huns
·
TungabhadrarTeereis based in 15thcentury
Karnataka. It is about the fight between the Hindu king with Muslim invaders
·
Seven Days Without You is a story of two childhood friends
thatfind their destiny only when they live seven days away from eachother. What
the joyous life of years together couldn’t unearth, wasdug out by the
heart-breaking realities of seven days that were noless than a new life for
him- one where his childhood friend wasnot with him
·
Mission to Pakistanis a spy novel based on historic
events that occurred between India and Pakistan. The book is a story based on
the life of a real Indian intelligence agent and his tumultuous career and life
during this period
Aparna
Achrekar, Programming Head, ZEE5 India, said, “The
digital medium has opened new avenues not only for content producers but also for
authors who can now bring their story alive on celluloid. We have an
interesting line-up of content, a major chunk of which is through book
adaptations. We have seen great success through our associations with Ruskin
Bond’s ghost stories for Parchhayee
as well as Priya Kumar’s I Will Go With
You for The Final Call.”
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