'Malgudi Days' of R.K. Narayan is now in small screen and silver screen

An unforgettable serial Malgudi Days is coming soon once again on small screen as well as on silver screen. The banner, which made the highly applauded Malgudi Days in 1986 under the direction of Late Shankar Nag, is back with other stories of R.K. Narayan. After sudden demise of Shankar Nag, the works of Malgudi came to a halt. But T.S. Narasimhan, the producer of those episodes had the rights for `The Man Eater of Malgudi'. Anant Nag, brother of Shankar Nag wrote the screenplay and got the approval from R.K. Narayan on 3rd October 1993. Unfortunately the work could not progress but subsequently the details for the television programming were done.

In October 2003 Anant Nag suggested young and talented director Kavitha Lankesh to direct and reproduce the Malgudi Days - a visual media of R.K. Narayan's writings. Snake Song, An astrologer's day, The doctor's world, Dodu, The gold belt, The neighbor's help, The antidote, Minister without portfolio and Korean grass, Lawley road, Salt and sawdust, Four rupees, Annamalai and The man eater of Malgudi will be made into 26 Kavita Lankesh and Prakash Rai

episodes and as well as a feature film in 35 mm simultaneously. This feature film is not only for commercial release worldwide but also for National and International festivals. The idea is to strike Oscar with this feature film. The main characters in The Man Eater of Malgudi are Nataraj and Vasu. Anant Nag and Prakash Rai are playing those roles respectively. Tara plays the wife's role of Anant Nag and Nandita Das may act in Rangi's role. Malgudi will be recreated in Agumbe and the work will be started immediately intended to complete the project by October 2004.

This was announced in a pres meet attended by T.S. Narasimhan, Anant Nag, Prakash Rai, Kavitha Lankesh and Tara last week. These days when 'Saas-Bhahu' serials are minting money, Narsimhan is producing Malgudi Days for television. According to him those serials are out of reality and his production will be a good and quality entertainer.