• Ahmed Tahsin Shams
• Cyril James Baptist

In the film Kaafiron Ki Namaaz (2013), writer and director Ram Ramesh Sharma embedded the postmodern aesthetics of stage in the socio-political context of Kashmir, India. Through the cinematic mise-en-scene, this paper aims to connect how the film naturalized the philosophy of absurd theatre and adapts particular stylistics from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. This critical analysis of hermeneutic adaptation reveals the process of incorporation of new images in the ‘new original’ intending to naturalize the source text. Like Plato’s Cave theory, mentioned by the French film theorist Jean-Louis Baudry, the transcultural newborn appears with new images from the home ground of the target audience. The paper connects theorist Andre Bazin’s insights on the ontology of cinema as a new dimension to adaptation while explaining Geroge Steiner’s four stages of translation in ‘The Hermeneutic Motion’: trust, aggression, incorporation, and restitution. This empirical research points out a new theoretical perspective to explain the process of adaptation, with an inductive qualitative approach, how the literature on screen achieves a new body in cinematic transcultural ‘afterlife’ in this film.

Adaptation, Kaafiron Ki Namaaz, Absurd Theatre, Cinema, The Hermeneutic Motion, New Original, Afterlife, Transculturalism, Ontology of Cinema, Plato’s Cave Theory

"A Transcultural Study of Kaafiron Ki Namaaz: A New Discourse of ‘The Hermeneutic Motion’ as an Adaptation Theory", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.b504-b512, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209161.pdf

"A Transcultural Study of Kaafiron Ki Namaaz: A New Discourse of ‘The Hermeneutic Motion’ as an Adaptation Theory", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppb504-b512, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209161.pdf