On a winter weekend afternoon, savouring the slow life with every sip of perfectly brewed coffee, we watched The Storyteller. Ananth Mahadevan’s adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s short story “Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro“ is an apt ode. It builds the character of Tarini Khuro and adds more dimension owing to Mahadevan’s perception of the story.
The 72-year-old director recalls, ‘When I first read the story, it was translated for me from Bengali to Hindi, and I realized that Ray had done a very clever thing; he had brought a Bengali who couldn’t speak Gujarati and a Gujarati who couldn’t understand Bengali together. So, the common means of communication was Hindi. The film could only be made in Hindi, not Bengali.’
