'The Small Town Sea' is so beautiful that I couldn’t stop myself from making a film adaptation: Shyamaprasad

The award-winning filmmaker Shyamaprasad is known for his affinity towards literary works and creating magical films out of them. After bagging the Kerala State Award for Best Director for Oru Njayarazhcha, the director is all set to adapt Anees Salim’s latest novel The Small Town Sea to the silver screen.
Calling it a beautiful tale, the director says that he was very moved when he read the novel and feels up to the challenge of picturising it.“When you read a novel, each person will have different imageries on the descriptions in it. This novel is filled with lot of such images and I have to make sure about pleasing the sensibilities of all,” he explains.

The Small Town Sea is the story of an unnamed boy who is forced to shift to a small town. The book was said to have an RK Narayanesque tint. “That depends on individuals. Ever since I read it, it is with me and I want to take some time to make it,” he says. The director who is working on a few other projects is planning to make it by the end of the year.

Shyamaprasad’s previous literary adaptations include Agnisakshi (1999) based on Lalithambika Antharjanam’s novel of the same name, Akale (2004) based on Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, and Artist (2013) based on Paritosh Uttam’s Dreams in Prussian Blue.