Amdavad Book Fair to celebrate 100-years of cinema

Visitors at the Amdavad National Book Fair, beginning from May 1 here, will get a slice of literature and movies through an exhibition organised to celebrate 100 glorious years of Indian cinema.

"Posters, images, records, booklets and other literature on Indian movies, adapted from books authored by some of India's finest writers, will be on display," Rajkot-based Centre for Art, Craft and Culture director Ghanshyam Gadhvi said.

"Various forms of literature available on movies, adapted from books authored by Govardhanram Tripathi, Kanaiyalal Munshi, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Bimal Mitra, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, among others, will be exhibited," Gadhvi said, adding that works of modern writers, which have been made into movies, are also being shown. Munshi is a Bharuch-born Gujarati writer, whose novel "Prithvi Vallabh" was made into a movie twice with the same name by Manilal Joshi and Sohrab Modi.

The exhibition aims to educate and inform citizens about milestone movies of yesteryears, Gadhvi said.