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Il cinema indiano: non solo Hollywood - Il feudalesimo asiatico - L'altro Medioevo: archetipi e atmosfere |
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Kanooru Heggadithi
1999, regia di Girish Karnad
Scheda: Nazione: India - Produzione: H.G. Narayan - Soggetto: ispirato ad un'opera del poeta Kuvempu - Sceneggiatura: Girish Karnad - Fotografia: S. Ramachandra - Musiche: B. V. Karanth - Formato: Color, linguaggio Kannada - Durata: 126'.
Cast: Girish Karnad, Srinivasa Prabhu, Tara, Mallika Prasad.
Trama e commenti:
TreccaniCinema: «...Altro film importante di questo eccellente regista č
Kanooru Heggadithi (La Signora della Casa di Kanuru, 1999), la saga di una
grande famiglia feudale al declino...».
Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: cscsarchive.org:8081
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induna.com -
willyfogg.com
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kannadastore.com
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moviekhoj.com
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rudraa.com:
«Kanooru Heggadithi is significant because it marks Girish Karnad's return to
film direction after over a decade. Shashi Kapoor's Utsav in Hindi, was the last
film for which he wielded the megaphone. Kuvempu's novel has been held in high
reverence by literary circles for the past five decades for its highly evocative
and authentic recreation of the feudalism of the pre-independence days, when man
was supreme and the woman was invariably held in abject subjugation. Subbamma,
the mistress of the house is a born rebel and spurs even an unfriendly cluster
of women folk around her in the sprawling habitat into periodic acts of defiance.
And, when Chandre Gowda dies a miserable death, groaning under the weight of his
own tyranny and subsequent repentance as it were, handing over the mantle to her,
she revolts by her own brand of promiscuity, as if to avenge all the wrongs done
by man to woman. She destroys herself in the end, of course, but not without
putting up a brave fight against machismo. The film ends with Hooviah, a liberal
intellectual of those barbaric and feudal days, steeped in his study of the
great thinkers of the day in an ambience hardly conducive to such cerebral
quests, inheriting the mantle after all the practitioners and beneficiaries of
feudalism have had their desserts. This is where the social relevance of
Kanooru Heggadithi lies, even in the present day, when society is breathing
easy, helping itself to the layers of fresh thoughts and attitudes».
Conosciuto anche con il titolo: Mistress of the House of Kanooru.
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