Kanooru Heggadithi

Kanooru Heggadithi Mistress of the House of Kanooru is a 1999 Indian film based on the 1936 novel Kanooru Subbamma Heggadithi by Kannada writer Kuvempu, and directed by playwright and film director Girish Karnad. Set in the Malnad region, the film narrates a story of the land and life of a feudal family in preindependence Malnad. The film marked Karnads return to directing after a lapse of over a decade.

The film was shot on locations in the Malnad region at the foothills of the Western Ghats in Karnataka. The film was released on video in 2007.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 Gowdas 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 Kuvempus work through an attempt to show the three different aspects of womanhood in a feudal setup, and the novel itself could not be depicted in full. ........

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