Amish Tripathi’s literary world from the Shiva Trilogy is being adapted into a web series. Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur will direct a series based on The Immortals Of Meluha, the first of the trilogy, and the author is not fretting about words getting lost in translation. “When you adapt a book for a movie or web series, there’s a difference. A movie doesn’t have the gift of time, which a novel has. My books comprise 500 to 600 pages. If you translate them word for word for a movie, it will turn out to be around seven hours long,” Tripathi says.

The 47-year-old is content because “the Shiva Trilogy is not being adapted into a movie, but a [web] series”. Tripathi adds, “You have the gift of time in a web series. Layers can only be built when you have enough time.”

This project isn’t his first association with OTT. He made his web debut as the narrator of a series, Legends Of The Ramayana With Amish. Talking about the importance of mythology in current times, he says, “Getting in touch with Indian mythology is even more relevant now. Our traditional stories give us the space to marry traditions and liberalism.”