‘Half Girlfriend’ is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel

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It’s often seen that books inspire movies. Let's take a look at the list of movies that were adapted from books.

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‘Half Girlfriend’ is based on Chetan Bhagat’s young adult romance novel with the same name. The movie features Bollywood’s favourite stars Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor.

See more of : Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor

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‘Lion’ is a 2016 biographical movie, based on a non-fiction book ‘A Long Way Home’, written by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose. The movie received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards.

See more of : Rooney Mara, dev patel

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Taking huge inspiration from well-acclaimed author Chetan Bhagat's bestseller ‘Five Point Someone’, Rajkumar Hirani's ‘3 Idiots’ struck gold at the box office.

See more of : Sharman Joshi, R. Madhavan, Aamir Khan

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Bollywood movie ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ is a black comedy-cum-thriller, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. It was adapted from Ruskin Bond's short story ‘Susanna's Seven Husbands’. The movie features ‘Baywatch’ actress Priyanka Chopra in the main lead and seven male actors opposite her.

See more of : Priyanka Chopra

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'The Blue Umbrella' is based on the novel with the same name by Ruskin Bond, and is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

See more of : Shreya Sharma

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Aishwarya Rai starrer movie ‘The Mistress of Spices’ was made by Paul Mayeda Berges and its screenplay was written by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. The movie is based on the novel with the same name by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

See more of : Dylan McDermott, Aishwarya Rai

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‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’ is a 1977 Indian movie, directed by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.

See more of : Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey

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‘Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam’ is based on a Bengali novel ‘Shaheb Bibi Golam’ by Bimal Mitra, and it talks about tragic fall of the haveli-dom and feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj.

See more of : Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt

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Helmed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, 'Pinjar' is based on Amrita Pritam's novel by the same name. Starring Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpai, the movie revolved around Hindu-Muslim conflict during the partition of India.

See more of : Urmila Matondkar

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Bollywood musical Parineeta is the adaptation of the 1914 Bengali novella, Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The movie features Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt in the lead roles.

See more of : Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan