Is Sushant Singh Rajput’s Dil Bechara adapted from The Fault in Our Stars based on a true story?

Last night all eyes were on Dil Bechara and more specifically, the late Sushant Singh Rajput, who had his swan moment by offering a heartbreaking performance in the film, which also stars Sanjana Sanghi. Social media has been flooded with praise for Sushant, who did justice to the book / movie that Dil Bechara was based on. Most of us know it was John Green The fault in our stars that inspired Dil Bechara But do you know if the book was based on a true story or not? Well, TFIOS it is based on John Green’s friendship with the late Esther Earl.

For the untrained, Esther was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the young age of 12 and had her own YouTube channel documenting her life and fighting the disease. On August 25, 2010, Esther last breathed at the age of 16. On JohnGreenBooks.com, through History vs Hollywood, the author had revealed that much of the story in TFIOS He was inspired by his “friendship” with Earl and his affection for his friends and family. For Green, what inspired him most was “Esther’s unusual mix of adolescence and empathy: she was a very outward-centered person, very aware and attentive to her friends and family. But she was also dumb, funny and totally normal.”

However, John was respectful to his late friend and did not want to appropriate Esther’s story, which belongs to her and her family and definitely not to him. Thus, Hazel Grace became a fictional character who, in many important ways, is different from the person Earl was. As for their first meeting, the unlikely friendship was affected when the two met in a Harry Potter conference in 2009 and they quickly became friends.

As for the similarities between Esther and Hazel, there are only superficial things like the oxygen tanks and the form of cancer along with the cheeky personality, their closeness to friends and family, and the innate ability to be silly and funny while being normal. However, the Augustus Water character and romantic angle was pure fiction.

“If I hadn’t met Esther, I would never have written The fault in our stars. Eventually I could have finished a book about some kind of teenage illness, but it wouldn’t have been this, “Green had confessed. Also, Earl was unaware TFIOS As before his death, the story was completely different without a character named Hazel who suffered from cancer.

Take a look at one of Esther Earl’s VLogs below:

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According to The Atlantic, John was also inspired to TFIOS of the time he spent working as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital.

We are glad that The fault in our stars It was written the way it was and inspired millions as it gave us away Dil Bechara.

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