Friends,I have written "Pre-Release Interpretation of Gundello Godari" blog with 3 sub headings
Purpose: What made me to write this
Prerequisite information to write on GG: Info to better understand the scenes of GG
Story: The way I can present GG before I watch it in theaters
Purpose:
As a person who loves the acting skills of Manchu Lakshmi,
and her passion for cinema in making different movies, I used to follow
Gundello Godari updates. Actually I was thrilled on seeing the GG trailers
which made me follow GG closely. As a person who learns from RGV, I tried to
analyze this GG and have decided to complete writing the “Pre-Release
Interpretation of Gundello Godari” by today as tomorrow movie will be released.
Prerequisite information to write on GG:
When a calamity affects the huge crowd, its impact on that
crowd cannot be generalized. The effect of that calamity varies on person to
person and it is purely dependent on, at what stage that person is present just
before that calamity strikes him and how she/he faces that calamity. The
severity in that disaster also decides the impact it leaves on that crowd:
When the natural calamity like floods affects
the crowd with a huge force and leaves the place immediately then impact will
be one way from which people can recover soon
While leaving if floods left out that place with
full of mud then the impact will be different and this might take many days for
the people to recover from that mud affect,
Just think the impact if that floods are of too
high leaving that place with full of water to the height of the buildings
making people go to the top floors like gram panchayat school, temple, village
head building in that village.
Worsening the situation if this type of floods strike
the same place continuously for a week raising the water level in that place
and not allowing the people to get down from that roof, just imagine the worst
state the people of that area might have stayed, wandering for people who can
help them with food & take them away from that place.
As a group these people have at least someone to
share their fear, sorrow and that too by the time floods strike them they are
in safe side standing on the roof tops, but just think
What will be the situation of a person if he/she
is left out alone in that floods and is fighting for a place to escape from
that floods,
What if that person gets a company of a person
and if they both have rivalry from long back?
What if a person got the company of a person
whom she/he loves a lot but not expressed yet and what if the other person
hates or loves her/him and which she/he doesn’t know?
What if
two people who do not know each other but just got married to each other happen
to face the floods together? They do not have a story to hate each other, they
do not have information to understand each other but they have a problem behind
in form of floods making them run without any second thought and a relation
called marriage making them run together.
Every disaster leaves different impact on different
people,
Some may lost properties like bike, car, and
house hold items and even complete house itself,
Some may lost the memories like big tree in
front of their house or some memorable items
Some may lost their loved ones like their
friends, family members, teachers or any person and even any pet they loved
most.
Some may lose their health mentally or
physically.
In
contrary some disasters may get together the people, who have been fighting
from long period. Sometimes it also gives the scope to understand a person
better than earlier.
When a disaster
throw the just married couple (without any interest and without knowing each
other) to a new place and make them travel together for few days giving a scope
to know about each other… is the place & time where our GG story starts.
If any love story
haunts us for long period then that story might have sacrifice or it might have
betrayal. The characters we remember by discussing more about them are the
ones that have done sacrifice for their love and the one that have betrayed
their love. To be frank it would be more
interesting to observe & study the people for whom his/her love have done
sacrifice and the people who got betrayed try to adjust their life by
forgetting/ignoring their past. However, I cannot generalize the points on
the attitude of these type of people as one getting cheated or one doing
sacrifice is individual perspective and it is dependent on the situations he/she
come across and the belief & understanding that they have on one each
other.
I assume that if a
person does the sacrifice he/she might be too good or he/she is incapable of
achieving their love. What makes them to reach that state of incapability
or state giving up with a word sacrifice?
I assume lovers
hypnotize one each other when they were in love. One lover hypnotizes the other
in such a way that in front of the other lover apart from this lover who is
hypnotizing rest all might lose its value. Interestingly marriage is the only
weapon that can bring these lovers out of their own hypnotismJ
Lovers who are mature enough in accepting the reality in
marriage will successfully get married or successfully get divorced before
getting married. Problem is with the immature lovers who struggle to understand
or accept the reality once they are out of their own hypnotism. Either the immature lover fools himself by
giving up his love with name of Sacrifice or he tries to blame others by
fighting with them without understanding the reality in marriage.
I assume that when there is love there is no
chance to cheat. Hence, if a person
got cheated it might be due to his misunderstanding of their bond as love while
the other has taken that as like. If a person cheats his love then it might
be due to the circumstances and to save him from those consequences. If a person cheats the other in order to
save herself/himself then I can see only her/his lust for time pass, luxuries
and even sex in her/his love which may not be considered as love. Most of
the times people use the word ego hurt to get separated which I consider it as
saving himself/herself with that word.
I assume Love marriage
as conditional bond where the conditions are known to each other whereas
arranged marriage as unconditional bond where there is a lot of thrill in
exploring the conditions which will be rewritten with different experience they
come across.
I hope the story of GG
start with exploring the unconditional bond called marriage by understanding
each other with the experiences they come across during fighting against 1986
flood.
Story:
Gundello Godari is an adventurous subject that runs on the
background of 1986 Deviseema floods. GG has wonderful love story that runs on
Lakshmi & Sandeep, sensible love story that runs on Aadhi & Taapsi and a
newly married couple story on Adhi & Lakshmi. The story runs from the point
of view of Aadhi & Lakshmi and it gets unfold during their adventurous journey
of escaping the floods which affected deviseema for around 5 days.
The story starts with a marriage scene, where Lakshmi will
be in marriage saree and people around her will be preparing her while she is in
depressed mood. On the other side Aadhi who is getting ready in marriage dress
will looks confused and little stressed. Apart from Aadhi & Lakshmi who are
getting married the people in that marriage place which is happening in front
of their huts are in full happy mood.
When marriage is going on, a car comes to that place from
which Taapsi will get down. To all our surprise she will be in saree with taali
around her neck. She comes near to Aadhi and wishes him by kissing him. She
leaves that place with some dialogues firing at Aadhi raising many questions to
us as well as to people in that place, who knows even Lakshmi who looks
depressed might also got some questions (of course it is not that much easy to
understand or guess what a women is thinking).
When marriage is
about to complete the floods slowly starts entering into that village, as the
speed in the water flow increases people in that place start running by making
big noise. When that area looks like fully disturbed, these two people will be still
sitting in their own places which show that they are only physically present
but not mentally. When that area looks like emptied leaving only the huts and
these two people, the flow of that water increases and very big log breaks into
that kalyana mandapam separating them. Falling into water they both realize and
start getting away from that place. When both are running individually, Aadhi
notices Lakshmi’s struggle and grabs her hand and pull her along with him.
Everyone in that area struggles to reach to safe place but
fails miserable. Even Aadhi tries to manage to get onto the top of the tree; he
ends up managing Lakshmi to get onto the tree. As the flow increase even that
tree cut down making them to float with water. After certain struggle, they manage
to get onto the top of a dry grass shed (Gaddivamu).
The complete area around that Gaddivamu will be full of
water and there will be only these two people. In that small but hectic travel of
escaping the floods they become little free and start asking questions on any
hurts they got during that escape. As floods flow got down to normal and
complete area is soundless, both starts knowing about each other, then the
flash back of Aadhi starts.
Aadhi was a fisherman who enjoys his work and learns many
things with his experience from Godavari. Here comes the song “Gundello Goadari
pongi porluthundhe…” They were around 4 friends who used to enjoy their life
peacefully. There comes Taapsi who is a college going girl and she use Aadhis
boat and also his cycle to go to college. Taapsi has a crush on Aadhi and tries
to have a talk with Aadhi who used to be very silent. Though he likes Taapsi,
he tries to be very silent knowing his boundaries. Though Aadhi won’t talk directly
to Taapsi she can understand what Aadhi is telling through his eyes, it's a story
of direct and indirect eye to eye communication love story. Here comes Ravi
babu who happens to have an eye on Taapsi and being from same community there
is plan of getting marry wit her. It is village festival time, where Aadhi will
participate in the boat raising. There will be eye communication between Aadhi
& Taapsi before that race and once he win the race, they both will have
some good time in that jaatara and Aadhi will accompany to her house. As she
asks him to come into house, though initially he rejects finally he gets into
due to her force. As all the people in the house are in Jaatara, a song will
start “jillumande jillumandee vayasu”. On getting the info Ravi Babu reaches the
house when these both are on the song. As the situation is getting worsen on
Ravi Babu making nonsense there, Taapsi in order to save her family reputation,
she point out that its Aadhi who came to spoil her.
Then suddenly a big sound of a sheep will come bringing the audience
back to current situation. On hearing the sound Lakshmi and Aadhi tries to save
that. After they save that sheep, while they are relaxing, he notices that her
saree & jacket are torn and asks her to use his paint & shirt which
will be convenient to swim as well.
When she is changing her dress and looking at him she goes
back to flashback there starts the child suri and child chitra and some other
children where Suri looks like beating somebody and warning them not to touch
Chitra and the song(Nannu neetho) starts in which they become big Suri (Sandeep)
and big chitra (Lakshmi). From childhood Chitra loves Suri a lot and she
express that many times though Sandeep has not expressed. He is very talkative
and satirical person who works as walls constructor (mestri). They both are very
fun loving people who enjoy a lot in cock betting. We can see on his cycle along
with wall constructing elements, there will be cocks as well. After announcement
on cock betting for coming festival, there starts the “aikkadundhe aikkadundhe na
kodi “ song . Once the song completes there will be cock betting in which there
will be little quarrel and tension as well. At the end they will win good
amount but crushing their happiness, that area police will catch and make them
sit in the station. Once they are out of that station there will be scene where
Lakshmi marriage will be going with some other person in which Suri will be
sitting ideally. As she is looking for him, when she find him starts scolding
and questioning. At the end of questioning, they made a conclusion that they will be leaving that place
on that night.
With that word night
and increase in the sound of the night they will come back to current as it is
getting dark and they need to identify some safe place to escape that night.
With a lot of fear and great light support from Moon, they keep spending the never
ending night. As the day light starting, the water sound seems to increase signaling
them one more disaster. When they are getting prepared, suddenly that Gaddivamu
gets split off dropping them into water. By the time they fall and try to
adjust, the flow increases so drastically they got flooded like hell and will
get separated. The flow is so huge and level of river has increased so high
that Aadhi touches the big pole and tries to hold it tightly and reach to the
top. On reaching to the top he understands that he is on the pole of railway
track that goes above Godavari River. Feeling the critical stage he is in and
checking for Lakshmi he shouts the name Chitra with a loud fearing tone. From
then the flashback of Chitra starts.
In an ugly wet dress and very tired face Chitra walks out of
a building, she walks in utter shocking mood and goes to nearby bench. To the surprise
of the people RaviBabu will be back and start teasing Chitra. Aadhi and his
gang who are waiting for proper time to take revenge on Ravi Babu, save Chitra
by hitting Ravi Babu. Looking at the situation of Chitra they take her to their
place and tell her to take rest. In the
morning, police picks them to the station along with Chitra. Police officer who
happens to be little sadistic, start misbehaving with Chitra. One of his
friends says to police that she is already engaged with Aadhi and is about get
to get married soon. When police cross checked, she just nods the head signaling
satisfactory answer. On looking at Chitra who is sitting idle and lost, many
tries to check what was happened but no response. One fine day, when Chitra
tries to commit suicide, Aadhi who happens to be in the same area start running
and save her successfully.
After saving her, he asks her strongly for the reason to
commit suicide and comes to know what was happened. On that day when Suri &
Chitra has decided to run away from the village, suri got hurt severely during
the fight. When they are coming near to Aadhi village, it will be critical and
by the time he is reached to hospital he died. Then come back to current where
only the resound of the chitra name which he is shouting and sound of water
crashing the pole on which Aadhi is standing. He notices Lakshmi who is under
semi coma floating towards that place. He jumps into water and try to pull her towards
the pole. Form there both will go to the top of railway track and hugh each
other and ask for any pain updates keep waiting for some rescue team.
Note: this is my understanding of the point in Gundello
Godari movie which I would like to write before I watch this movie in theater
tomorrow.
I am
always thankful to my guru RGV sir
as he and his book "Na Istam" is my inspiration to analyze anything
for an example above "Pre-Release Interpretation of Gundello Godar."
--Rasool Oruganti
