Talk:White Nights (short story)

Page Issue: Plot Summary
While this plot summary may include a few details, especially a few descriptions of conversation, that are probably unnecessary, e.g. that Matryona finished cleaning the cobwebs, for the most part this is a well-written summary. In general, I prefer plot summaries with more information, rather than less. I would recommend removing the "issues" notification link. I would be concerned that some well-intentioned reader would see this notification and excessively edit the summary or, even worse, replace it entirely with an all-too-brief one or two paragraph summary, to the great detriment of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.141.160.164 (talk) 14:16, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Novella
White Nights is not really a short story, but rather a Novella in its length. --Clibenfoart (talk) 07:43, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Chhalia
This musical/film is very obviously not an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s White Nights. Here is the plot summary from the Wikipedia article: "Shanti (Nutan) is married off to Kewal (Rehman) on the eve of Partition. But while the two families move away to Delhi from Lahore, she inadvertently is left behind, and is forced to share a roof with Abdul Rehman (Pran), who has a sister of Shanti's age in India. When she returns to India five years later with her son, she is first welcomed by the husband with open arms but disowned when the child identifies himself as Anwar, and his father as Abdul Rehman. Even her own father refuses to give her shelter, though in the years she had lived with Abdul Rehman she hadn't even seen his face.

Physically and emotionally shattered, Shanti tries to commit suicide after leaving Anwar in a remand home, but is rescued by an outlaw, Chhalia (Raj Kapoor) who as time and events progress, flips for the lady. Rehman lands in Delhi to settle old scores with Chhalia and threatens to kidnap Shanti. The bloody fight that ensues between the two adversaries eventually ends in a truce. The hurried climax, set amidst Dussera festivities, has Chhalia bringing about a rapprochement between the estranged couple, and himself walking into infinity, while Rehman is reunited with his sister on the return train." It is a different story, with different characters, and with themes and purposes alien to those of Dostoevsky’s story. Harold the Sheep (talk) 04:09, 25 January 2021 (UTC)