Inspiration is the fuel Bollywood runs on. Sometimes, we're inspired by Hollywood movies, sometimes the Tollywood movies. Inspiration, like creativity has no boundaries. Readers will agree that books are endlessly inspiring. Bollywood filmmakers have found novelty in literary masterpieces too.

Devdas - Devdas and Parineeta - Parineeta

The three overtly dramatic, 70mm film stories of the heavy-drinker Devdas are actually based on the book by same name, written by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Along with it, he left Bollywood another 'to-be-movied' book in the form of his 1914 novel, Parineeta.