Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane

Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane (1977)

ತಬ್ಬಲಿಯು ನೀನಾದೆ ಮಗನೆ

The movie explores the cultural problems experienced by an American woman, newly married to an Indian, adjusting to Indian norms and customs. It depicts a modern man who studies agriculture in the United States, returns to India with an American wife with their different views. The theme is one alienation from the fellow human beings.

Date of release
1977-01-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Girish Karnad, B.V. Karanth

Casting

Interesting facts

Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane is a 1977 Indian drama film co-directed by Girish Karnad and B. V. Karanth and starring Naseeruddin Shah. The film was simultaneously in Kannada and Hindi with the latter version titled as Godhuli. While the Kannada version starred Sundar Raj and Maanu, the Hindi version starred Om Puri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda, respectively. It is based on the Kannada novel Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane, written by S. L. Byrappa as an allegory for nation-building and the clash of modernity with tradition in rural India. It portrays the story of a modern agriculturist who returns from the US after studying agriculture and brings his American wife to the village.

Production

The film was simultaneously made in Hindi as Godhuli. The casting was different in both languages. The Kannada version has Maanu as the foreign-returned hero, while Kulbhushan Kharbanda portrayed the role in Hindi. For the role of Yengta, Sundar Raja was chosen for Kannada and Om Puri for Hindi.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended