VEI5P127

From Story to Script: The Adaptation Process of Vijaydan Detha’s Umar Ka Parwana 

Aditya Pal^1*, Dr.Adish Kumar Verma²

Abstract

The folk narratives of India have been able to retain the collective human experiences, social values and cultural memory for a long time. Folk stories play more than a recreational role; they also help to communicate cultural identity and social awareness. Vijaydan Detha is one of the most important folk litterateurs of India, who brought the oral stories of Rajasthan to literary works. He is intimately involved with folk culture and the emotions, social relationships, and moral conflicts. The present research paper investigates the process of narration of the dramatic conversion of a popular folk tale, Umar Ka Pawana of Vijaydan Detha.The paper explores how the literary folk narrative is adapted into a theatrical script through the use of dramatic structure and scene division, dialogue creation, improvisation, and character development. The study also touches on the work of the people who have developed theories on adaptation to show that the process of adaptation of a dramatic text is a process of re-enthroning the original story rather than adaptation itself. The research method used in this research is a qualitative method, which is widely used because it relies on the collection of information that can be analysed based on the text itself, the script, observation, and interaction of the participants in the process of creating the script. The study demonstrates that the process of converting the story into a script is not a straightforward process of turning stories into dialogues, but a creative process which was collaborative and experimental. The folk narrative, through the process of adaptation, gains a new dramatic identity, but it retains the emotional and cultural core of the folk story.

Keywords:

Folk Narrative, Adaptation, Dramatic Structure, Script Development, Vijaydan Detha, Story to Script, Folk Theatre