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Bengali to Bollywood

December 2017

In this collection, originally featured in the December 2017 issue of Words Without Borders, we present four Bengali stories transformed into Bollywood productions, selected and introduced by Arunava Sinha.

Bengali to Bollywood

By Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha introduces the four stories in our December feature exploring Bollywood’s debt to Bengali writers.India’s Hindi film industry is the largest in the world in terms of the number…

Shaheb Bibi Golam

It was late. Who knew where Bhootnath could buy liquor at this hour?

Translated from Bengali by Somrita Ganguly

Heeng Kochuri

By Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

I cannot serve a glass of water to a Brahmin’s son.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

The House of Wax

By Subodh Ghosh

“Have you been able to forget me?”

Translated from Bengali by Somrita Ganguly

Devdas

By Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

She searched for an answer, embarrassed for the first time in her life at having to say what she was about to.

Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha