Film
adaptations
of
six
popular
stage
plays
which
went
on
to
win
Academy
Awards
are
set
to
be
screened
at
a
film
festival
beginning
here
tomorrow.
"The
Philadelphia
Story" a
two-time
Academy
winning
1940
film
directed
by
George
Cukor
is
set
to
open
the
three-day
'Stage
Adaptation
Film
Festival'
organised
by
American
Center
in
collaboration
with
Cinedarbaar.
The
film
starring
Cary
Grant
and
Katharine
Hepburn
with
James
Stewart
is
based
on
the
eponymous
play
scripted
by
Philip
Barry.
The
classic
and
much-loved
romantic
melodrama
"Casablanca" by
Michael
Curtizm
that
bagged
three
Academy
awards
revolves
around
a
sentimental
triangular
love
story
set
against
the
backdrop
of
wartime
conflict
between
democracy
and
totalitarianism.
The
1942
film
stars
Humphrey
Bogart
and
Ingrid
Bergman.
A
dark
comedy
film
by
Frank
Capra
"Arsenic
and
Old
Lace"
(1944)
based
on
Joseph
Kesselring's
play
and
featuring
Cary
Grant
is
scheduled
for
the
second
day.
Films
scheduled
for
the
last
day
of
the
festival
are
the
Academy
award
winners
"A
Streetcar
Named
Desire"
by
Elia
Kazan,
a
subversive,
steamy
film
classic
that
was
adapted
from
Tennessee
Williams'
1947
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
play
of
the
same
name.
The
1951
film
casts
Marlon
Brando
and
Vivien
Leigh.
"Deathtrap"
a
murder
mystery
by
Sidney
Lumet
based
on
Ira
Levin's
play
and
"Amadeus"
adaptation
of
Peter
Shaffer's
Broadway
hit
and
winner
of
eight
Academy
awards
directed
by
Milos
Forman
is
set
to
mark
the
end
of
the
festival.
The
1982
stars
Michael
Caine
and
Christopher
Reeve.
Stage-to-film
adaptations
have
been
popular
since
the
beginning
of
motion
pictures
and
as
the
popularity
of
films
grew,
Hollywood
began
borrowing
plots
as
well
as
actors
and
directors
from
Broadway,
some
of
which
turned
out
to
be
the
triumphs
and
others
could
not
succeed
at
the
Box
Office.
On
some
occasions,
playwrights
re-wrote
their
stage
dramas
for
the
screen,
as
Peter
Shaffer
did
for
Amadeus
(1984).
The
screenings
are
set
to
be
followed
by
interactive
sessions
by
scholar
and
independent
filmmaker
Anugyan
Nag
and
Kumar
Unnayan,
a
postgraduate
student.