Infidelity to True Story and Novel: Locating the Auteur in Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan

Rituparno Ghosh (1961-2013), a celebrated Bengali film director who started making films in 90s, often borrows plots from literary and other cultural narratives. The essay aims to explicate Ghosh’s early Dahan (1997) which is an adaptation of distinguished novelist Suchitra Bhattacharya’s novel with the same title. influenced by real incident couple was harassed four youths at Tollygunge Metro Station Kolkata on 27th November, 1992. also acknowledges that it indebted true story. explicates two sources auteur. It examines duplication authorial concerns this while following narratives texts. remains unfaithful text memory story establish his authorship. As portray middle-class women patriarchal society, Janet Staiger’s reconsideration theory auteur context queer movement identity politics 1970s, argues performance infidelity authorship auteur’s “technique self”.