



: a different medium,” she elaborates.
For writers like Bhagat, the cinematic version will bring him new audiences. For mainstream Bollywood, Hello will be a test. Projects like another version of Sahib, Biwi Aur Ghulam will follow while Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram, to be directed by Mira Nair, are in the offing. But it’s only when they match the audience of a Karan Johar blockbuster that more fiction, pulp or otherwise will be seriously considered by an industry desperately in search of the ‘different’ story....
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