Hindu epic Ramayana and Mahabharata are a big part of our culture and society.
In such a way that several books have been written as their rations.
The author of debut producer-producer-producer of the Board ‘Urmila: Forgotten Princess’, which was released in April this year, is one of the new additions for the genre of myth-fiction in India.
When the title suggested, this book retelled Ramayana through Sita Sister – about the Urmila sister.
Share more detail about this book, Smriti told us in Candid chat, “The big problem with Rinnel Feminist Ramayana is that it is usually notified through the confiscate perspective.
In this story, he is not a very reliable narrative in my opinion …
I feel urmila’s story Having a lot to say and it’s not written much.
My book is not a feminist perspective but a women’s perspective.
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Talking about hyspiration to write this book, he said, “I am always interested in Indian mythology and I want to do something in that room – write, produce or direct.
In fact, I initially planned to throw this story for TV shows in 2014 Parallel Life Urmila and Sita But things did not fall.
Then in 2019, I watched the movie ‘Lajja’.
There is a very strong dialogue in the film where Madhuri Dixit plays Sita and she rejects Agni Pariksya.
He said, “I can also sit on Houses like Urmila and do not follow you to the forest, but I don’t “.
I feel unfair for Urmila because she spends almost everything.
From her grihast life, which should be the time of marriage happiness and child bearing period, waiting for her husband back from exile.
is a sacrifice that is not enough to see in our culture …
it’s Hindi poetry poetry ‘Urmila Ka Vassa’ Urmila Train ‘which triggers me to finally menul Is this story.
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In recent years, many books have been published in the genre of myth-fiction.
From popular Indian writers such as Amish Tripathi, Chitra Banerjee Divakania, Anand Neelakanan, Anuja Chandramouli for new talents that appear, writing retail fiction myths have become trends for publishing industries.
Agreeing for that Smriti said, “It has become a trend but I thank it.
For a long time we only have Ramayana and Mahabharata shown in Doordarshan or the Amar Chitra Katha narrative.
We missed various perspectives from that story in India.
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But retelling the epic came with his own challenge.
“This is a character who already has several images in the public mind.
Breaking the mold and making them look in different light is the challenge to write because you don’t want to hurt people’s sentiments at the time,” revealed smriti.
The author also said that he read the classic Ramayanas – including Ramayana Valmiki, Adbhut Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana – and ‘Saket’ poetry by Maithili Sharan Gupts along with modern objusts as part of his research.
“I deliberately didn’t read Kavita Kane’s book ‘Sita Sister’ because I felt it would affect my writing.
I plan to read it now,” he shared.
Talking about being a debuted writer during a pandemic when the world was under Kuncian, Smriti said that he was lucky enough to be published by Bloomsbury.
The author has written previous scripts and produces performances for television.
Talking about the shift from writing for TV to write novels, Smriti said that writing books gave far more creative freedom.
“Meanwhile, writing a long narrative, compared to scripts, challenging your confidence,” he told us.
While the book is a file of fiction, it is noted that there are several modern terminology used in it.
When we questioned the author about it, he explained, “I want politics between the kingdom in the story to reflect the politics between the countries that we have today to make stories more relevant in our day.
So it was very deliberate.
Also Ram-Rajya has been Being a big political subject today, I feel it is a good opportunity to just see what Ram-Rajya should be achieved.
RAM is a great potential king but every young man or leader must sacrifice in their personal life.
The author now plans to write a historical fiction novel.
“This is the story of the Buddha’s wife, Yashodhara which he left when he was pregnant,” he said.
