 His novel Mr. Sampath was made into a Tamil film , Miss Malini , starring <unk> and Kothamangalam Subbu . A Hindi version with Padmini and Motilal was also produced by Gemini Studios . Another novel , The Financial Expert , was made into the Kannada movie Banker <unk> . Swami and Friends , The Vendor of Sweets and some of Narayan 's short stories were adapted by actor @-@ director Shankar Nag into the television series Malgudi Days . Narayan was happy with the adaptations and complimented the producers for sticking to the storyline in the books . 
