Click to play videoMumbai: Years before it was made into a movie, The Wizard of Oz started out as a bedtime story by writer L Frank Baum for his children.
The tale of a young Kansas girl who dreams of a better world "somewhere over the rainbow", Baum was stumped when one of his kids asked him the name of this magical world.
The writer looked up, saw a filing cabinet marked O to Z, and the mystical land Oz was thus born.
The film version starring Judy Garland was released in 1939 and went on to become a cult favourite.
Though novelist Ian Fleming's most famous creation will always remain the fictional British spy James Bond, few are aware that a story Fleming made up for his son about a flying car, is what kids across the world will forever be indebted to him for.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the musical film about a wacky inventor and the super car he creates to rescue his kidnapped father from an evil prince, is regarded by many as one of the best musicals to be made in Hollywood.
Novelist and screenwriter William Goldman regularly made up stories about princes and weddings for his two daughters.
When they asked him to recount a story he'd told them weeks ago, Goldman had no idea which one they were referring to.
But he came up with one at the spur of the moment. That's how The Princess Bride was born.
The film version directed by Rob Reiner, which Goldman himself wrote, is still held up as one of the most romantic movies ever made in Hollywood. The film had music by Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler.
Imagine a world where you never have to grow up or grow old — that's the world of Peter Pan. It’s a world that playwright James Matthew Barrie created for the sons of his friend.
In Peter Pan's world, adventure is all around you with the swashbuckling and fearsome Captain Hook, cute as a button Wendy, and the Lost Boys.
Interestingly enough, several films have been made on Peter Pan, the most recent one being Australian director P J Hogan's 2003 version starring Jason Issacs.
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