A. As a novelist myself, i wondered about the changes made to the book on its way to the screen.
B. In particular, novels can afford to digress in ways that the attention span of movie audiences cannot accept; a film requires one clear over - arching narrative, fewer characters to keep straight, and a common thread from beginning to end.
C. But some of the changes were arguably unnecessary: I lamented, in a particular, the loss of Ram Mohammed Thomas and his mongrelised Amar - Akbar - Anthony exemplifying of Indianess.
D. But above all, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is the work of an artist at the peak of his power.
E. Some i could understand; cinema and novels are distinct art forms, and what works well in one medium does not necessarily translate well into the other.
F. I hope that people will both read the book and see the movie to savour the differing strengths of Swarup's original premise and Danny Boyle's trenscreation of it.
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