“Cinematic”. The adjective is unfailingly, unsurprisingly, deployed frequently to describe Arundhati Roy’s writing. In her essays, novels and memoir, the sentences sigh, laugh and cry, like living creatures. The words assume shape and form, yielding visuals that are often breath-taking. The page becomes a screen held in the palm of the hand.
“The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a hat…The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives.” (The God of Small Things.) “I could see little children with littler goats scuttling across the landscape like motorized peanuts.” (The Greater Common Good.) “The mother of the birthday child was plump and safe-looking. Her brilliant diamond earrings were like tiny searchlights.” (Mother Mary Comes To Me.)
Before Roy became a professional writer, she was another kind of writer – of screenplays. In 1989, she wrote her first movie for director Pradip Krishen, the delightful comedy In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones. Annie explored with never-before-seen, rarely-since-seen candour and hilarity the experiences of students at an architecture college in Delhi in 1974. Roy had studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture herself in the late 1970s.
Before Annie, Roy had acted alongside Raghuvir Yadav in Krishen’s first feature, the...
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