Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Cheluvi

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Jun 28, 2012, 5:59:41 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Cheluvi

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+'''Cheluvi'''
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+
+aka The Flowering Tree
+1992 102’ col Hindi
+d/s/co-dial Girish Karnad pc Sadir Media,
+Doordarshan p B.V. Ramachandra
+co-dial Padmavati Rao lyr Vasant Dev c Rajiv
+Menon m Bhaskar Chandavarkar
+lp Sonali Kulkarni, Gargi Yakkundi, Prashant
+Rao, Geetanjali Kirloskar, B. Jayashree,
+Sushma, Poornima Chikkerur, Girish Karnad,
+Padmavati Rao, Appayya, Sivdasan, Suresh
+Kulkarni, Vijaya Yakkundi
+
+
+Karnad retells a Karnataka folk-tale, dubbed in
+Hindi, usually told by women while feeding
+children or putting them to bed, a time when
+other women would also be present. A young
+woman, Cheluvi (Kulkarni), living in abject
+poverty with her mother and sister, can turn
+herself into a tree yielding an endless supply of
+blossoms as long as they are picked very
+carefully. The son, Kumar (Prashant Rao), of
+the village headman (Karnad), seduced by the
+scent of the flowers, marries Cheluvi and they
+enjoy her flowering in strict privacy. During
+Kumar’s absence, the headman’s young
+daughter Shyama (G. Yakkundi) forces Cheluvi
+to disclose her secret. Unable to comprehend
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+the delicacy and beauty of the event, the
+children destroy the tree, leaving Cheluvi’s
+body as a mutilated tree-stump. In the end,
+Kumar disconsolately leaves carting off the
+Cheluvi-stump. The folklorist A.K. Ramanujan
+pointed out that in Sanskrit and in Kannada the
+same word is used for ‘flowering’ and
+‘menstruation’. Art direction is provided by
+Jayoo and Nachiket Patwardhan.
+
+[[Film]]