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 The 'Disneyfication' of Fairy tales By  Bhumika Kukreja, Ananya Jain, Sahaj Singh Saluja We often take the print and visual media for granted and do seldom realize that there was a time before all of it began. The onset of the journey of print can be traced back to 594 AD in China. After the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, we all know how far we’ve come. In print, one major part of the writings written is folktales and fables, gradually transgressing from oral to paper. In the 19 th century, primary education became compulsory and children became an important category of readers . A children’s press devoted to literature for children alone was set up in Germany in 1857. And all the due credit goes to the Grimm brothers for introducing fables to the world as they spent many years in Germany compiling traditional folk tales from peasants.  Be it the story of the utterly confident and obedient ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’ or everyone’s obsession with Rapunzel's lu...

Ubu Tells The Truth : An animation based on the play Ubu Roi  By Areeba Adeeb Over the years art and literature have been tightly bound, whether it is Goya, the painter, taking reference from a Greek myth to create Saturn Devouring His Son  or Sandro Botticelli creating 92 pages of illustrations for the manuscript of Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. With the progress of cinema, directors have been inspired to recreate the scenes from famous paintings into shots or frames in films (Harrison). For example, director Akira Kurosawa recreated the painting White Field With Crows (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh, as one of the scenes in his film Dreams in 1990. Similarly, the film, Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013) recreated the scene of the painting, New York Film (1939) by Edward Hopper. Through the interplay of art and literature, artists, writers, readers as well as audience have been able to explore, adapt and improvise in their own spheres. “It is a relationship that both refuse...

From Hamlet to Haider - A Journey Transcending Centuries By Shreya Sathish “Art is the most intense mode of individualism.” (Wilde, n.p.) said Oscar Wilde and in these few words he signifies why art is so widely used as a source of expression. Man connects his inner self with the outer world through his art. A bridge to fill the void inside him longing to be expressed and understood. This is a dive into Haider , an adaptation of what is considered by many to be Shakespeare’s greatest work of art, Hamlet . Being an ardent Shakespeare enthusiast, Bhardwaj once said, “I fell in love with Shakespeare...I had this instinctive connection with his literature, which probably nobody else had. I just wanted to see the conflicts he had in our own culture and society; Shakespeare is an inspiration.” ( Vishal Bhardwaj, n.p.) It is no surprise that Haider is Bharadwaj’s third cinematic expression of a Shakespearean play, the first two of the trilogy being Maqbool (based on Macbeth ) and Omkara...