Stri

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Movie
Original title Stri
స్త్రీ
Country of production India
original language Telugu
Publishing year 1995
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director KS Sethumadhavan
script KS Sethumadhavan
production National Film Development Corporation and
Doordarshan
music L. Vaidyanathan
camera S. Saravanan
cut D. Rajagopal
occupation

Stri ( Telugu స్త్రీ Strī ; translated: "Woman") is an Indian feature film by KS Sethumadhavan from 1995. It is based on the short story Padava Prayanam by Palagummi Padmaraju .

action

Rangi comes across the Godavari in a ferry and is looking forward to the release of her partner Paddalu from prison. He hasn't waited for her in front of the prison, but she finds him at a nearby water reservoir. When he gets home, she pampers him with food and cigars and defends him from the village women, but Paddalu is a do-it-all who prefers to drink with his friends and cheat instead of reciprocating their love.

For the local Zamindar , Paddalu appeared again as an actor and singer in a popular theater event on the evening of his release after a six-month forced break. He empties the schnapps that Rangi wanted to drink with Paddalu to celebrate his return; to do this, he tries to steal her wallet and to disappear to his lover at night, which she thwarts both. The next morning, however, she finds him at the rival and forcibly brings Paddalu back.

Both ask the Zamindar for work for Paddalu, but their hopes are disappointed when he shows them that the times of prosperity for his family are long gone; they cannot afford to maintain their house or garden. Paddalu and Rangi argue about how to make a living. He sees her ideas of independence as unaffordable, she finds his ideas of fraud and theft morally reprehensible.

After all, they can be taken along on a boat that transports goods under a pretext. The skipper wants to send her off board again, but is persuaded to take her to the village of Mandapaka. Rangi makes herself useful as a boat cook. Other fellow travelers are a writer and an employee. On the second night, Rangi takes the helm and when everyone else is asleep she steers the boat to the bank and Paddalu steals part of the ship's cargo. Rangi stays on the boat.

When the theft is discovered, she is the target of the shipowner's anger. She then tells her story to the writer. Before that, the oar man throws in his knowledge that she was raped by Paddalu as a young girl and that they have been together since then, but neither are married and he does not lead a steady life. Rangi doesn't say a bad word against Paddalu because, despite his affair with another woman, she “loves him with all her heart”. The oarsman still knows to report that Paddalu once set fire to the hut with Rangi in it. She finds an excuse for Paddalu for that too and continues to cover him for stealing the boat. With the prospect that the writer could process her story in a book, she tells how she fell for the talented actor Paddalu and how the advent of the cinema has destroyed his income as a stage actor so that he has to rely on petty crime. She shows her psychological dependence on Paddalu in the episode when she discovers him in her hut in bed with the other woman, initially throws him out, but in the end succumbs to his persuasive skills. When the writer asked why she stuck to him despite his behavior, she replied with beaming eyes: "I love him so much, he is 'my husband', what more can I say about it." She is convinced that he always comes back to her in the end. And they drift towards the sunrise.

Others

The movie songs Yad Unnado and Guddiyenka Sandulo were sung by V. Srinivas and the actress and singer Renuka .

After his mega budget flop Nammavar (1994), the director Sethumadhavan found his way back to his image as an arthouse director with this film .

Awards

literature

  • Stree . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999 revised edition, ISBN 0-85170-669-X , p. 531

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Playing time of the NFDC DVD
  2. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 531