Ruskin Bond admits not fondness Priyanka Chopra’s ‘7 Khoon Maaf’ script

'Saat Khoon Maaf'
‘Saat Khoon Maaf’

Author Ruskin Bond on Thursday certified that Bollywood executive Vishal Bharadwaj’s tilt instrumentation of ‘Susanna’s Seven Husbands’ in “7 Khoon Maaf” wasn’t always to his liking.

The Priyanka Chopra-starrer expelled in 2011.

“We did speak about it when Vishal Bharadwaj done a ‘Blue Umbrella’. In a other story Susanna’s Seven Husbands, we indeed helped with a book and that altered considerably, not always to my liking,” Bond, 82, told a packaged assembly during a Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet here.

Bhardwaj is an fervent suitor of Bond to such an border that a “Haider” executive bought a lodge beside Bond’s in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

“Fortunately Vishal Bharadwaj now has a lodge subsequent to cave in Mussoorie. So when he is adult in town, we chuck stones on his roof and if he is not being useful when creation films (from Bond’s books) a stones get bigger,” Bond said, promulgation a throng into a fit of laughter.

Besides “7 Khoon Maaf”, Bharadwaj has done a film formed on Bond’s novel ‘The Blue Umbrella’.

Bharadwaj had also acquired a integrate of some-more stories from him, including ‘Mr. Oliver’s Diary’, that revolves around a propagandize teacher.

“There was ‘A Flight of Pigeons’ that Shyam Benegal filmed as “Junoon” and was really loyal to a story. So we have been propitious in a way. But infrequently a film can have too many changes. You can be unhappy during times in what finally comes on screen,” Bond continued.

Talking about his latest charity — ‘Death Under a Deodars’, where his protagonist Miss Ripley-Bean happens to be during a centre of all adventure, Bond pronounced Bollywood luminary Salman Khan could “win an oscar” by personification Ripley-Bean on screen.

“For Ripley-Bean we have to find a seventy-year-old lady unless good famous actors go into drag. You could have Salman Khan personification Miss Ripley-Bean, we don’t know. He could get an Oscar for it I’m sure,” he said.

Talking about blurring a lines between adult reading and children’s books, he said: “As a child we went fast into adult books. It is tough to confirm what’s suitable.”

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