Adaptation

The most popular tele-serial throughout the Tamil community around the world for the past few years now has been Metti Oli. It is a story of how a single father brings up his five daughters, and focuses on the obstacles he faces in trying to marry them off, and the relationship problems his daughters face with their husbands and in-laws. Metti Oli represents the Tamil culture through different kinds of marriages and relationships of different …

…and background music. However, in a novel, there are no sound effects or music, and the reader has to imagine the facial expressions, actions and voices of the characters. In a tele-serial, there are a series of events and many characters. By adapting Metti Oli into a novel various events as well as many of the extra-characters that were part of the original tele-serial will be eliminated, which will leave a short, sweet and focused.