Gulabi Talkies

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.

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 smalltime fishselling agent, has deserted her and is living happily with his second wife Kunjipathu and their child Adda.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. ........

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