Gulabi is well known in Kuduru as an expert midwife. One evening while she is watching a film in a cinema, the village affluent Kalyani’s daughter goes into labour. Kalyani summons Gulabi to conduct the delivery and promises to reward her with a television.
The colour TV turns Gulabi’s hut into the village hub. Village women frequent the hut and begin weaving their dreams, sorrows and desires around the TV. Among them is Netru, whose husband works in Dubai.
She suffers the atrocities of her mother-in-law and finds relief from her suppressed life in the TV. Gulabi sows in her the seeds of hope and desire. Television fills the void in Gulabi’s life too. Soon her estranged husband and her foster son Addu resume their relationship with her.
GIRISH KASARAVALLI
Girish Kasaravalli, an alumni of FTII, Pune, has made 11 films in a career spanning three decades. All his films have won National, international and Karnataka State Awards. Four times he has won the President’s Golden Lotus and five times, the Silver Lotus.
Gulabi Talkies is the 12th film of Kasaravalli who is currently the Director of Suchitra International Film Festival, Bangalore.
Filmography1977: Ghatashraddha (The Ritual of Excommunication) 1987: Tabarana Kathe (Story of Tabara) 1997:
Thai Saheba 2002: Dweepa (The Island) 2005: Hasina 2006: Nayi Neralu (In the Shadow of the
Dog) 2008: Gulabi Talkies
Cast & Credits
Producer : Basant Productions
Director, Screenplay : Girish Kasaravalli
Camera : S Ramachandra Aithal
Editing : M N Swamy - Manohar
Music : Isaac Thomas Kottukapally
Cast : Umashree, Krishna Murthy, Pallavi, Ashok Sandeep
Indian Panorama IFFI-2008
GULABI TALKIES
Film in Kannada/122 mintus/35 mm/colour
Gyan Pathak - 16-11-2008 05:09 GMT-0000
Gulabi, a discarded 50-year-old woman, lives in an island inhabited primarily by fisherfolks. Since her husband Musa has married again, she lives away from him. To escape her loneliness she fans her obsession for films.