Written by Mimansa Shekhar |New Delhi |Updated: December 1, 2018 2:38:16 pm
My books are deep, not an airport read: Anand Neelakantan
Anand Neelakantan's latest book 'Vanara: The Legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara' was launched recently. The author gets candid with indianexpress.com about interpreting mythology and why he thinks his books are deep.
With his latest book ‘Vanara: The Legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara’, Anand Neelakantan dives into the genre of romance. (Photos: Facebook/Anand Neelakantan)
“I don’t give any facts. I only give a viewpoint. And I don’t claim that it is the correct viewpoint. The only premise I work on is, ‘this could also have happened'”, says Anand Neelakantan while talking about risks involved in interpreting mythology in his books.
In an exclusive chat with indianexpress.com, the author gets candid about his new book ‘Vanara: The Legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara’, which was released by Penguin India recently. “This is the first time I am writing romance. It is a love triangle set in the Vanara world. It is like ‘Planet of the Apes’ meets ‘Romeo and Juliet’, set in a Ramayana era”, Neelakantan says with a laugh.
Revealing that a full-length feature film is already in talks on his latest work, the author gives us an insight on his new book, “I started this novel as a short story on Tara. I was writing a series called ‘Women of Ramayana’. It was a challenging task and very interesting one also. If we take Ramayana as proto-history, then this is the first love triangle where Tara gets married to both Bali and Sugreeva, at different times. But it is a tale of two brothers who love each other and then Tara comes and the love triangle is what changes the entire history.”
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