Top 11 Bollywood Movies Based on Novels

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Omkara

Rank #1 :: Omkara

Omkara is a Indian film adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Othello", co-written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
Omkara Shukla or Omi is a baahubali, a sort of political enforcer. He is the leader of a gang whic...

Parineeta

Rank #2 :: Parineeta

Parineeta is a Bollywood musical film adaptation of the 1914 Bengali novella, "Parineeta" by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
The film places the story in Kolkata. As the credits roll, scenes from the erstwhile ...

Saawariya

Rank #3 :: Saawariya

Saawariya is loosely based on "White Nights", a Russian short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Saawariya is a 2007 Hindi film Co-produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and released on 9 November 2007, it i...

3 idoits

Rank #4 :: 3 idoits

3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani, with a screenplay by Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. 3 Idio...

Aisha
Rank #5 :: Aisha

Aisha, is a modern day adaptation of the 1815 British novel, "Emma" by Jane Austen, a 'comedy of manners' set in the upper class society of Delhi, India.
Aisha is a girl who believes she is perfectly...

Hello
Rank #6 :: Hello

Hello film is based on Chetan Bhagat's novel, "One Night @ the Call Center". It also had cameo roles from Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif who played themselves in the film.

Salman Khan is a Bollywood ...

The Namesake

Rank #7 :: The Namesake

The Namesake movie was directed by Mira Nair and is based upon the novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri, who appeared in the movie. Sooni Taraporevala adapted the novel to a screenplay. The film received positive revi...

Guide

Rank #8 :: Guide

Guide film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, "The Guide", by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film industry.
Dev Anand stars as Raju, a freelance...

Devdas

Rank #9 :: Devdas

Devdas, Bollywood film based on the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novella "Devdas".
Sir Narayan Mukherjee (Vijay Crishna), a zamindar, and his wife Kaushalya (Smita Jaykar) have heard that their younger...

Maqubool

Rank #10 :: Maqubool

Maqubool is a 2004 Indian film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and starring Pankaj Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tabu and Masumeh Makhija is an adaptation of the play "Macbeth" by Shakespeare.
The Film is based on William...

Umrao Jaan
Rank #11 :: Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan is based on the Urdu novel "Umrao Jaan Ada", written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa based on the famous Lucknow courtesan.
In 1840, a girl named Amiran (Bansree Mandhani) is kidnapped from her home in Faizab...

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