Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Geetanjali

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Jul 29, 2012, 7:33:55 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Geetanjali

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+'''Geetanjali'''
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+1989 142’ col Telugu
+d/s Mani Rathnam pc Bhagyalakshmi Ents
+dial Rajashri lyr Veturi Sundara Ramamurthy
+c P.C. Sriram m Ilaiyaraja
+lp Nagarjuna, Girija, Vijayakumar,
+Vijayachander, Sumitra, Velu, Disco Shanthi,
+Chandramohan, Sowcar Janaki, Smita
+
+
+Rathnam’s first Telugu film was the biggest hit
+of the year in Telugu as well as in Tamil (in a
+dubbed version, Idhayathe Thirudathe). It tells
+an unusual love story about a young collegiate
+gangster (Nagarjuna) who meets the wild
+Geetanjali (Girija). Both are terminally ill, he
+with leukaemia and she with heart disease.
+These afflictions appear to liberate the duo
+from social constraints. Most of the film is shot
+in exotic, fog-bound locations and includes
+several rock numbers (e.g. Om Namaha which
+uses an amplified heartbeat as background
+rhythm). The critic Tejaswini Niranjana (1991)
+points out that the heroine is the ‘new woman,
+the strong heroine, the inheritor of a refracted
+modernity in a context where feminity is once
+again being redefined [placing on her] the
+burden of saviour and teacher [w]ho has to be
+the one to provide support, when the hero in a
+similar situation [sings] sad songs. However,
+[s]he is allowed to take the initiative in the
+relationship because in spite of her shoulderlength
+hair she is ‘Indian’ and a signifier of the
+good modernity.’
+
+[[Film]]