Girish Kasaravalli
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Girish Kasaravalli (1950), after
graduating with the Tarkovsky-esque Avasesh (1975),
became a leader of "parallel cinema" in Kannada of Karnataka with:
Ghatashraddha/The Ritual (1977), based on a story by Udupi Rajagopalacharya, set in South India in pre-independence India among the orthodox Brahmin class and focused on the plight of a teenage girl who is seduced and has an abortion;
Tabarana Kathe (1986), based on a story by Poornachandra Tejaswi;
the bilingual existentialist domestic drama Mane/ House (1990), titled Ek Ghar in Hindi;
Kubi Matthu Iyala (1992),
Kraurya/ Cruelty (1996),
Thaayi Saheba/ Mother Saheba (1997), an adaptation of Ranganath Shyamrao Lokapura's novel;
Dweepa/ The Island (2002), an adaptation of Na D'Souza's novel;
Haseena (2004), based on a story by Banu Mushtaq, about a poor lower-class woman who is abandoned by her abusive husband;
Naayi Neralu/ Shadow of the Dog (2006), an adaptation of
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa's novel, centered again on a woman in pre-independence India;
Gulabi Talkies (2008), based on a story by Janaki Srinivasa Murthy (aka Vaidehi);
Kanasemba Kudureyaneri/ Riding the Stallion of Dreams (2010),
and
Koormavatara/ The Tortoise an Incarnation (2011), based on a story by
Veerabhadrappa Kumbar (aka KumVee).
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