V. PROPP’UN YAPISAL ÇÖZÜMLEME YÖNTEMİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE BİR HİNT SİNEMASI ÖRNEĞİ: “LAGAAN” (2001)

This study is about Lagaan, which one of the top Bollywood film industries world cinema. The movie has been inspired by football match between Mohun Bagan and British in 1911. Besides being best examples reflecting struggle for independence, it concerned great attention from audience as also involved socio-economic socio-cultural difficulties experienced Indian society. It determined that this event, historical reality, brought some changes to time, place people preserving skeletal structure. In study, similarities differences event new narrative gray screen tried be explained. comparison allowed us understand reasons current changes. adapted film, on other hand, evaluated with a thirty-one-item morphological analysis method Russian folklorist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, who known his valuable contributions field folklore, reveals structure narratives. Based method, article draws fact cinema culture, especially socialist realistic cinema, often feeds/can fed events reality.