Normally we hear about books being turned into movies, but movie novelization is a fairly new concept. When Anushka Ravishakar was asked to write a novel based on the movie, she got a week to do so. Seven days out of which 2 of them she spent the first one getting her fill of fried chicken and the other feeling sick as a result. So, the first draft of the novel was created in just five days.
To the ordinary person it might not seem like a big task, I mean, the movie’s already made, what do they need to put by themselves?! Wrong. Since the movie is already made it can’t be deviated, so the script, dialogues and all else have to match accordingly. Since the movie works on two or three aspects, it’s a taxing procedure to put all of it in words, for example for a scene which has no dialogues, you still have to write about everything in it, from the silence to the look that was passed, the rustle of clothes to the agony in some one’s eyes..
Though Chotu is the Hero, Pari is the protagonist so the novel is written in her POV, the writer did add some snippets of Chotu’s POV along with a few others that she believed needed to be highlighted. Anushka was torn into two when she was writing this, because as an author her novel should have had traces of her in it, but since it was a novelized movie, it had to be about the movie and whatever the director had thought for it. Dhanak releasing on 17th June, under the #HumFilms banner in Pakistan and comes with a lot of surprises and life lessons.
