Thinking activity an astrologer

Hello readers, I am Kishan Jadav and a student of MK Bhavnagar University. In this blog I am going to discuss some of the interesting questions about 'An Astrologer's Day' As we all know, ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is a very fascinating short story.

R. K. Narayan was born on 10 October 1906 and passed away in 2001. In his long career he published fourteen novels, over two hundred short stories, a memoir, two travel books, innumerable essays, and two plays. His first novel was Swami and Friends (1935).

Among the best-received of Narayan’s 34 novels are The English Teacher (1945), Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), The Guide (1958), The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), The Vendor of Sweets (1967), and A Tiger for Malgudi (1983). Narayan also wrote a number of short stories; collections include Lawley Road (1956), A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories (1970), Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (1985), and The Grandmother’s Tale (1993). In addition to works of nonfiction (chiefly memoirs), he also published shortened modern prose versions of two Indian epics, The Ramayana (1972) and The Mahabharata (1978)

.Here , I put the movie adaptation video ;

1] we faithful is the movie to the original short story?

In the story and the film adaptation, we can see that there is so much correspondence between a story and adaptation. In both are plot is going the same way as it is in the story. Both are match many things. And represent the some situations of the original story. But original story and film adaptation, Just two scenes are there which are not in the original test. One is the astrologer’s wife at the initial part and his reveal of his crime through the story of money. 

2] ]After watching the movie, have your perception about the short story, characters or situations changed?

 In this question is very complicated because all sence are important, all situations is important, characters are important, but My Answer is yes that after watching the movie, my perception about the short story is change and the last part of the movie is fearful. Because this Film adaptation is very high level of fear. One person to another person kill. So from the starting, we were thinking that it is a story about Astrologer who is getting from people by telling about their personal life or by solving their problem but at the end we knew that he has killed the landlord and came to the city. It's a terrible situation where we don't know who are our friends and who are enemies because all are praying for him as a god.

3] Do you feel ‘aesthetic delight’ while watching the movie? If yes, exactly when did it happen? If no, can you explain with reasons?

yes, I saw one big tree in the film adaptation.. Those under the tree play children, prayer one woman, one astrologer, and balloon's salesman . so this is the seen of recall one village symbol. All things are represente feel the aesthetic delight. So when film is open one big tree, you can swa this all things are represente of naturally.

4] Does screening of movie help you in better understanding of the short story?

Yes, By watching the film screening it stucks into our mind that how all the thing happening in the story works and it also denotes that how each ane every small thing can make huge change.Ee get to know that it arouses curiosity as something might have taken place on a particular day. The title is very interesting and creates curiosity in the mind of the readers. The writer extended the word with a particular purpose as it was used by Churchill.'Everyone has his day'.

5] Was there any particular scene or moment in the story that you think was perfect?

According to me , the communication scene between an astrologer and Guru Nayak is as appropriate as in the story. The last ending of the story was perfect moment in the story .

 6 ] If you are director, what changes would you like to make in the remaking of the movie based on the short story “An Astrologer’s Day” by R.K.Narayan.

Yes, i would like to change some things, some incidents, attitudes of some characters like Guru nayak blindly trusts on an astrologer. It should not be like that only. He should not trust him blindly. He should think about it at his own.