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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Gulabi Talkies<br />
| image = Gulabi poster DVD cover.jpeg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = DVD cover<br />
| native_name = ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಟಾಕೀಸು<br />
| director = [[Girish Kasaravalli]]<br />
| producer = Amrutha Patil <br/> Basanth Kumar Patil<br />
| writer = <br />
| screenplay = Girish Kasaravalli<br />
| story = [[Vaidehi (Kannada writer)|Vaidehi]]<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''Gulabi Talkies and Other Stories''|[[Vaidehi (Kannada writer)|Vaidehi]]}}<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Umashree]] <br /> K. G. Krishna Murthy <br /> [[M. D. Pallavi]]<br />
| music = [[Isaac Thomas Kottukapally]]<br />
| cinematography = [[S. Ramachandra]]<br />
| editing = M. N. Swamy <br/> S. Manohar<br />
| studio = <br />
| distributor = Basanth Productions<br />
| released = {{Film date|2008|09|02|India|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 123 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Kannada<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Gulabi Talkies''''' is a 2008 Indian [[Kannada language]] film by acclaimed Indian director [[Girish Kasaravalli]]. It is based on a short story by the same name by Kannada writer [[Vaidehi (Kannada writer)|Vaidehi]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Trivia about cinema and theatres|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/24231/Simply%20Bangalore/Trivia+about+cinema+and+theatres.html|access-date=8 December 2010|newspaper=India Today|date=2 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Of women's lives |url= http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/10/01/stories/2006100100310200.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061010112723/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/10/01/stories/2006100100310200.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 October 2006 |date= 1 October 2006 |work= [[The Hindu]] |access-date= 27 March 2014}}</ref><br />
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The film premiered at the [[Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema]] in New Delhi on 14 July 2008, where it won the Best Film and Best Actress awards in the Indian Competition section. [[Umashree]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Actress|National Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in the film.<ref name="Sify.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/jo-misses-national-award-by-a-whisker-news-tamil-kkfr56ehcbh.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305152827/http://www.sify.com/movies/jo-misses-national-award-by-a-whisker-news-tamil-kkfr56ehcbh.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2014 |title=Jo misses National Award by a whisker! |publisher=Sify.com |date=8 September 2009 |access-date=3 December 2011}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The film is set in the late 1990s among the fishing communities around [[Kundapura]], in the southwestern Indian state of [[Karnataka]]. The impulsive midwife Gulabi ([[Umashree]]) is the protagonist, whose one passion is the cinema. She leads a lonely life in an island inhabited by fisher folk. Her husband Musa (K.G. Krishna Murthy), a small-time fish-selling agent, has deserted her and is living happily with his second wife Kunjipathu and their child Adda.<br />
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A family gifts her a television with a satellite dish antenna in gratitude after she attends to a difficult delivery (for which they even had to bodily remove her from a movie theatre). The arrival of the first color TV in her small island village heralds great changes in the sleepy hamlet. The women in the village begin gathering at her house once the men leave for fishing. However, a few of them stay away, since Gulabi is one of the few Muslims in the village. Yet others prefer to watch from outside her shack, without entering it.<br />
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Among the regulars at her home is Netru (singer-actress M.D. Pallavi), a girl with an absentee husband and a domineering mother-in-law, whom Gulabi befriends and becomes a confidante to. But Netru disappears and Gulabi is blamed, leaving her all alone in the village.<br />
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The [[Kargil War]] of 1999 and the rise of [[Communalism (South Asia)|communalism]] in Karnataka provide the backdrop to the film. The communal stereotyping of Muslims following the Kargil War finds an echo in the village. The tension between the small fishermen of the village and a Muslim businessman (who is actually never shown throughout the film) with a growing fleet of commercial trawlers acquires a communal color.<br />
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The disappearance of Netru adds to the mounting tensions. The Muslims in the village flee and urge Gulabi to leave too, but she refuses and stays put in the village. Her house is vandalized and she is forcibly taken to a boat to leave the island. The young men from outside who spearhead the attack assure the villagers that Gulabi's television would remain in her house.<br />
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The film ends with a scene in which two illiterate elderly women, who had hitherto refused to enter Gulabi's house, going in there to watch TV (which they do not know how to switch on - they are probably unaware even that it has to be switched on).<br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
* [[Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema]], 2008<br />
** Best Film in Indian Competition<br />
** Best Actress in Indian Competition - [[Umashree]]<br />
* '''[[Karnataka State Film Awards 2007-08]]'''<br />
** [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]<br />
** [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] - [[Girish Kasaravalli]]<br />
** [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] - [[Umashree]]<br />
* '''[[57th National Film Awards]]'''<br />
** [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] - [[Umashree]]<ref name="National Film Awards">{{cite news|url=http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/movies/article16297.ece?homepage=true |title=Southern films score big at National Awards |date=7 September 2009 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=2009-09-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090910075824/http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/movies/article16297.ece?homepage=true |archive-date=10 September 2009 }}</ref><br />
** [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada|Best Feature Film in Kannada]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist|1}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|1437827}}<br />
*[http://dearcinema.com/girish-kasaravalli-interview/ Girish Kasaravalli talks about Gulabi Talkies]<br />
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===Reviews===<br />
* [http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/sep/rvw-gulabi.htm/ "A village on the screen", IndiaTogether.org]<br />
* [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/sep/08ssg.htm/ "A masterpiece from Girish Kasaravalli", Rediff.com]<br />
* [http://www.indianauteur.com/?p=197 Review] on ''Indian Auteur''<br />
* [http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/7511/1/ Review on VarietyAsiaOnline.com]<br />
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