<p class="title">Author Amish's smash hit 'Shiva Trilogy' will now feature as a web series, after it's long-awaited big-screen adaptation failed to see the light of the day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Filmmaker Karan Johar had bought the rights of the first of the three-part mythological series - 'The Immortals of Meluha' -- back in 2014, but the project never took off.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The rights have now come back from Karan, and a fresh contract has been signed with a producer. We are working on a (web) series based on the 'Shiva Trilogy'," Amish told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Johar had said in 2017 that one of the reasons for not adopting the trilogy was "fear of repercussions".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The best-selling novelist, however, did not elaborate on who would helm the proposed web series or its release date.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amish, 44, was in the city recently to promote his latest book 'Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta', the third installment in the 'Ram Chandra' series.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book traces the life of Raavan - from birth to the time he abducts Sita.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The banker-turned-author is confident that each and every book in his mythological saga will be adapted into a movie or a web series in due course of time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Each book has its fate and it will get converted into a movie or a series when the time is right... 'The Lord of the Rings' took 70 years, 'Jurassic Park' took only three-four years," he added. </p>
<p class="title">Author Amish's smash hit 'Shiva Trilogy' will now feature as a web series, after it's long-awaited big-screen adaptation failed to see the light of the day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Filmmaker Karan Johar had bought the rights of the first of the three-part mythological series - 'The Immortals of Meluha' -- back in 2014, but the project never took off.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The rights have now come back from Karan, and a fresh contract has been signed with a producer. We are working on a (web) series based on the 'Shiva Trilogy'," Amish told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Johar had said in 2017 that one of the reasons for not adopting the trilogy was "fear of repercussions".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The best-selling novelist, however, did not elaborate on who would helm the proposed web series or its release date.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amish, 44, was in the city recently to promote his latest book 'Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta', the third installment in the 'Ram Chandra' series.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The book traces the life of Raavan - from birth to the time he abducts Sita.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The banker-turned-author is confident that each and every book in his mythological saga will be adapted into a movie or a web series in due course of time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Each book has its fate and it will get converted into a movie or a series when the time is right... 'The Lord of the Rings' took 70 years, 'Jurassic Park' took only three-four years," he added. </p>