Thinking Activity

Thinking Activity: Short stories - R. K. Narayan 

An Astrologer's Day 

 Hello readers, I am Nidhi Dave a student of Department of English MK Bhavnagar University.  This blog given by professor Yesha Ma'am. In this blog I am going to discuss some of the interesting questions about 'An Astrologer's Day 

An Astrologer's Day

  

 An Astrologer’s Day’ is a story from the Indian author R. K. Narayan’s 1943 collection Malgudi Days. The Malgudi of the collection’s title is a fictional city in India, where all of the stories in the collection take place. The opening story in the book, ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is about an unnamed astrologer who is confronted by a stranger who questions his abilities.

The story is about revenge, the past, and the reasons why we make the decisions we make in our lives. 

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

  

Ans,  An Astrologer's Day by R. K. Narayan we are studying as part of our syllabus. First we study whole story then we watch movie of this story so we can find many similarities between movie and story. In both are plot is going the same way as it is in the story. Both are match many things. And represent the some situations of the original story. But original story and film adaptation, Just two scenes are there which are not in the original test. One is the astrologer’s wife at the initial part and his reveal of his crime through the story of money. so now we can say that movie is mort related to story.

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

Ans,  After watching the film My perception is changed towards the character of astrologer’s wife.Because in the original story she is quite silent and here we seen in movie that she speaks about his work and other things also.

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

Ans, yes, i feel aesthetic delight while watching the movie. in the last seen the end of the story when astrologer revealed her past about the Guru Nayak and then that night he sleep well. Like new morning are come.  

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

Ans, Yes movie became helpful for better understanding of the story. Because first we read whole story but we not anderstand the story but after watching a film we anderstand about whole story and what message the story give. so that way we can say that film are always help to understand literature.

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

Ans, Yes, I think the scene of Gurunayak coming to an astrologer is quite perfect and appropriat. And also That scene that he talk about his wife about his crime it was the perfect scene which I find.

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?

Ans, If i am director, i would like to chenge about the place and time of the astrologer and also add some more dailogs and some entertaining part.

Thank you