This article deals with the role of the silver screen in promoting or reviving our English literature. No doubt, books and films are two different, significant, distinct and universal portfolios and they both hold their audience on their own style. This is just an attempt to study on how films play a significant role in promoting a prose or fiction or even poetry to a far extent than a book could do. This article will throw light on literature, its classifications, its contributions and its adaptations. It’s a contrast study on how the literature contributed to film industry and on how the silver screen enlightens literature. When analysing the interest of audience, we understand that books and movies, both have their own audience but the number and preference varies. Many people prefer to watch movies than reading books as it consumes much time. On other side books are non expensive, give knowledge, improve one’s vocabulary and have the power of taking people to its own world. So in this article, let’s analyse in what way the films promote English literature in detail.