The Birds (story) The Birds (story) "The Birds" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection "The Apple Tree". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in "kamikaze" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds", released in 1963, the same year
Bahurani (1963 film) Bahurani (1963 film) Bahurani ("Daughter-in-law") is a 1963 Indian Hindi-language film directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha and Feroz Khan in lead roles. It is a remake of the Telugu movie "Ardhangi", which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel "Swayamsiddha", written by Manilal Banerjee. "Swayamsiddha" went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name. "Ardhangi" was remade in Tamil as "Pennin Perumai" and was also remade again in Hindi as "Jyoti" in 1981. The story of "Swayamsiddha" was also similar to the Kannada novel "Mallammana