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Thinking Activity- The movie "Kya Kehna" and The Novel "The Scarlet Letter"

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 This blog is a part of the academic movie Screening of "Kya Kehna" in the context of The novel "The Scarlet letter".

1.What are the names of the protagonists in both the works?

     Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel "The SCARLET LETTER' And in the movie 'KYA KEHNA' Priya Bakshi is the main character.

The scarlet letter
   The novel "The Scarlet letter" is the work of  American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The setting part of the novel has a puritan settlement which sets in the year of 1642 in Boston city. Other important characters are Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth. Hester is mother of Pearl. She is a young wife whose husband has been missing for over a year and she is accused for adultery following the birth of her infant daughter Pearl. She refused to reveal the name of her child's father. She was forced to wear the Scarlet letter. At the end of the novel Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold and confesses in front of everyone then dies of his wounds in Hester’s arms.
In a way,It presents the journey of Hester and how she succeeded in changing the meaning of  Adultery to Able and at last Angle.

"Kya Kehna"
 'Kya Kehna' movie is directed by kundan Shah . This movie is a 2000 Indian Hindi film, Starring Prity Zinta  as a single teenage mother and saif Ali khan as a father. This movie also deals with taboo issue of premarital pregnancy and the view of the society,Same as in novel "The Scarlet letter". Both  the protagonists are similar. Both of them faces many problems and struggle. At the end of the movie Priya gets married  with  her childhood friend.


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