Time

There is a big difference between the original time described in a normal novel or story than the time shown in cinema. The time shown in a story is naturally longer as the duration of daily activities and actions of a person. When we picturize the time in a film, it is necessarily shorter than the real time of life because of the compulsion to describe the story in a shorter period because a story must be told in a fixed duration. Therefore the real time has to be shortened in a film. But the reduced time in cinema is also regarded as real time which is also called the cinematic real time or the plastic time. Moreover, the time shown in the film should resemble with the real time or the natural time. Therefore, the cinematic time is regarded as real time by the audience.
What is important to note is that whenever we show the events which take certain duration in our daily lives, we must picturize those times in a compact, effective, interesting and the most believable way, and the audience must be convinced that the time shown in the film is real time.
In some of the films, the story told could be related to some definite period and some stories might be told related to some ordinary (common), indefinite or uncertain period. For e.g. if we say some definite period, we must understand the time described, like the ‘Rana period’, event of the Lichchhavi period, the reign of Amshuverma or Chandra Sumsher, time of Bhimsen Thapa. We may also point out the year, month or the dates of the events. Similarly when we talk of the uncertain time we can take the events, which may happen at any time.