Fatmagul Thread # 3 - Page 50

Originally posted by: bandanaa

This show just takes its basic idea from that novel which was written by the famous Turkish novelist Vedat Trkali. The novel was based on the true story of a rape victim in Turkey. The show cannot even be called a loose adaptation of the novel...it's is so different from it. A movie however was made on this novel in 1986 and that cld be called its true screen adaptation.

Anyways, in the novel & movie, the girl gets raped by 4 men. 3 of these men are spoilt rich kids and the other is a local boy. The law at that time in Turkey forgave the act of rape if one of the rapists got married with the victim. So, the rich kids get rid of their crime by persuading the local boy to marry the girl. After the two marry, the trio walks free and leave the town. The local boy gets frustrated because he is the one who's left with a wife he does not want. He even beats her once because of which she miscarries their baby. But since the girl has nowhere to go, no one to trust, she accepts and loves her husband. The guy too eventually falls in love with her.

However for the tv series, famous scriptwriters Ece Yren and Melek Genolu just used some part of the basic premise/idea of the novel and created a completely diff and new story around it. For example, in the show Kerim is never shown to harm Fatmagul psychically. He is in fact shown as a righteous man and a passionate lover. Fatmagul too is shown as a strong feisty character who refuses to accept him as her husband until she falls in love with him. Also, the show introduces many new characters who didn't exist in the true story or in the novel. These include Mustafa, as Fatmagul's fiance, who dumps her immediately after the rape, Fatmagul's sister in law MQ, who is a sly, unreliable woman, Meriyam Abla, the woman who raised Kerim and is the biggest supporter for Fatmagul etc. Also, in reality or in novel, there's no war between the 3 rich boys and Kerim & FG which the series shows, Most importantly, the series shows Fatmagul getting justice with the culprits being put behind bars while in reality they had all walked free.

So, as you can see, the tv series does not have much in common with the novel except for the fact that the girl is gang raped and the rapists are rich boys who force her to marry a local friend of theirs. Rest everything is changed including the fact that the guy she marries is not a rapist. Therefore, we can't even consider it to be "based" on that novel actually. They just used a part of its basic premise and built their own epic story around it.

Good that they did so coz if they had they gone with the original story, the show wld have never worked, even in Turkey. In fact the show created a huge controversy till the time it wasnt made clear that Kerim had not raped Fatmagul, as public/media/social orgs etc had gone up in arms thinking that the series was going to show the victim getting married to her rapist and falling in love with him, thereby glorifying this kind of a union, esp since popular stars were playing these characters.