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Films that
are adaptations of literary classics have never been received as well as those
ones with original scripts. One major reason is the limitations that one man’s
perception puts on the wild imaginings of countless readers that have already
constructed the visual language individually in their minds. So it inadvertently
has to be something that trumped these divergent visualizations. It only gets
trickier when the literary works are more popular, as the success of its film
adaptation heavily relies on appeasing a wider imaginative spectrum. Movie adaptations
of famous books were a major draw in the Malayalam cinema since the 1950s, and it only grew rampant in the 60s. Although the fad slightly waned by the 70s, a few good
adaptions graced us with their ingenuity every once in a while ever since. Following
is a list of a handful of such book-to-movie adaptations in the Malayalam
language that are worth your time.
