Director: K. Gunasekhar; Writer: Gunasekhar; Producer: K. Ramgopal; Cinematographer: Sekhar Joseph; Cast: Naresh, Indraja, Annapurna, Tanikella Bharani
Duration: 02:02:49; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 5.163; Saturation: 0.035; Lightness: 0.264; Volume: 0.235; Cuts per Minute: 12.929
Summary: When a lowly paid engineer (Naresh) finds
himself in debt as a result of his lavish lifestyle,
his wife (Indraja) bails him out by starting a
home-based saree-dyeing business. Earlier, the
independent yet traditionalist character of the
wife was established when she offered her
future husband a dowry that she raised against
a personal bank loan. The ‘offbeat’ film
includes scenes in which, faced by a rape
attempt from her husband, she threatens to kill
him, and ends when he, chastised by his wife’s
initiative, finally ‘accepts’ her as an equal. The
director’s earlier Lathi (1992) had been
critiqued for betraying an excessive influence
of his mentor Ram Gopal Varma. That
influence continues to be in evidence in the
depiction of a lavishly shot, low-lit world of
domesticity. The domestic here is curiously
shut off from the world outside, emphasising
instead its effort to suture female sexuality and
woman’s economic independence into a
traditionalising narrative about the ‘new’
woman in the context of a consumerist middleclass.
It also had a successful musical score.
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