Film Adaptation from Tagore’s “Shasti”: A Critical Comparative Study

Abstract

Films adapted from literary texts have to go through some additions,
deductions and alterations though the fidelity towards the source texts always
remain an issue. The film, Shasti, adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s short story,
“Shasti”, by Chashi Nazrul Islam, a Bangladeshi filmmaker, is a ‘commentary’
adaptation though the last quarter of the film is a ‘transposition’. The film
successfully carries the Rabindric mood even after all the alterations needed for a
generic shift; and moreover, the film itself is praiseworthy against the scale of filmic
notions, though an adapted work is very often considered inferior to its source text.