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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Kanooru Heggadithi<br />
| image = Kanooru Heggadithi poster.jpg<br />
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| director = [[Girish Karnad]]<br />
| producer = H. G. Narayan<br />
| writer = [[Kuvempu]]<br />
| screenplay = Girish Karnad<br />
| story = <br />
| based_on = {{based on|''The House Of Kanooru''|[[Kuvempu]]}}<br />
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| starring = Girish Karnad<br>[[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]]<br />
| music = [[B. V. Karanth]]<br />
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1999|11|19|India}}<br />
| runtime = 126 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Kannada<br />
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'''''Kanooru Heggadithi''''' (''Kanooru Headwoman'') is a [[1999 in film|1999]] [[India]]n film based on the 1936 novel "[[Kanuru Heggaditi|Kanooru Subbamma Heggadithi]]" by [[Kannada]] writer [[Kuvempu]], and directed by [[playwright]] and [[film director]] [[Girish Karnad]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kuvempu, Padma Ramachandra Sharma|title=The house of Kanooru|year=1999|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=0-14-028082-0|pages=i|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4NkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Kanooru+Heggadithi%22}}</ref> Set in the [[Malnad]] region, the film narrates a story of the land and life of a feudal family in pre-independence Malnad. The film marked Karnad's return to directing after a lapse of over a decade.<ref name=CSCS>{{cite web|title=Kanooru Heggadithi|url=http://archive.cscs.res.in/MediaArchive/Library.nsf/(docid)/20233DA06BD6F4306525716800410874?OpenDocument&StartKey=Kanooru&count=50|publisher=CSCS Media & Culture Archive|access-date=11 January 2012}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Thoraval|first=Yves|title=The cinemas of India|year=2000|publisher=Macmillan India|isbn=0-333-93410-5|pages=369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OpkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Kanooru+Heggadithi%22}}</ref> This is the only instance in the Indian cinema history where one Jnanpith Awardee directed a movie based on the work of another Jnanpith Awardee.<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Subbamma ([[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]]), third wife of Chandre Gowda ([[Girish Karnad]]), is a rebellious mistress of the household and encourages sporadic acts of defiance against men from among her women friends. When her husband dies, she uses her position of authority to avenge all the wrongs ever done by man to woman. Her actions end up destroying her, and her place is taken by liberal intellectual Hooviah.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Girish Karnad]] as Chandre Gowda<br />
* [[Tara (Kannada actress)|Tara]] as Subbamma<br />
* Mallika Prasad Sinha as Site<br />
* [[Srinivas Prabhu]] as Seregara (Manager)<br />
* Suchendra Prasad<ref>{{cite news|last=Prashanth|first=G.N.|title=Letting silences speak: Films for DD|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/10/06/stories/2004100600820300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041222001830/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/10/06/stories/2004100600820300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 December 2004|access-date=17 January 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=6 October 2004}}</ref><br />
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==Production==<br />
The film was shot on locations in the [[Malenadu|Malnad region]] at the foothills of the [[Western Ghats]] in [[Karnataka]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Magic of Malnad |url= http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/film-review-kanooru-heggaditi-starring-girish-karnad-tara-srinivas-prabhu-mallika-prasad/1/254814.html |publisher= indiatoday.intoday.in |date= 22 November 1999 |access-date= 9 March 2014}}</ref> The film was released on video in 2007.<ref name=CSCS/><br />
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===Background===<br />
The novel by Kuvempu consisted of 700 pages and dealt with over 150 characters. It took Karnad eight months to reduce it to a feature film screenplay which concentrated on four main characters: Chandre Gowda, Seetha, Hoovayya, and Subbamma - Gowda's third wife. After the shooting began, the women of Megaravalli are returning to their native dress. Even the names of their houses were changed to the titles described in the novel. Director Karnad said that while the film did justice to the Kuvempu novel, it was only an attempt to portray the complexities of the women characters in Kuvempu's work through an attempt to show the three different aspects of womanhood in a feudal set-up, and the novel itself could not be depicted in full.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
After release, the film rekindled the interest in the novel and approximately 2,000 copies were reprinted.<br />
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===Awards and nominations===<br />
* 2000, won [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]] for [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada|'Best Feature Film in Kannada']]<ref name=im>[http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc79.html Biography and plays of Girish Karnad]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Kannada}}<br />
{{Girish Karnad}}<br />
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[[Category:1999 films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s Kannada-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Best Kannada Feature Film National Film Award winners]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Girish Karnad]]</div>>GreenC bot