The box-office success of the film has received attention because it provided many things to ponder upon in that the highly competitive education system of India portrayed in the film resembles that of Korea. This paper tries to examine the film with particular respect to the transformation of media. The film is a case in which the story of the film has surpassed that of the novel which it is based on by adapting the story and the characters while maintaining the novel’s theme. The story and the characters of the original novel and the film are analyzed respectively and then the ways in which the story and the characters are added and deepened in the film are examined. In addition to that, the publication of a novel based on the scenario of the film has shown the crossing between the media. The effect and the usability of a novel are maximized by this kind of transboundariness of many media. In the past there was a tendency to be faithful to the original when the novel is used in other media. The case reported in this paper shows that a new interpretation of the original novel leads to the birth of a new genre, which then increases the possibility of OSMU that is emphasized recently in cultural contents.