Phalke's film got an actress and India got its first heroine, a man named Salunke who ruled the silver screen for almost a ... Her last film was Gehrayee (1980). ================================================
Gehrayee
(Hindi: गहऱायी) is a 1980 Indian film directed by Vikas Desai and Aruna
Raje based on a script by Vijay Tendulkar, Desai and Raje, and starring
Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Sriram Lagoo and Indrani Mukherjee with
Amrish Puri in a guest appearance. The film was produced by N. B. Kamat.
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Supernatural tales are often branded as B-grade in
Hindi film industry but there have been instances when filmmakers have
explored profound issues through what is often marked as shallow side of
cinema. “Gehrayee” by Aruna-Vikas is one such tale which continues to
be relevant. It is worth revisiting in the week when we celebrate World
Environment Day. The industry is full of stories where producers spiked
ideas for want of a successful example. Though Aruna Raje had the idea
with her from the time she was co-directing “Shaque”, “Gehrayee” could
only take shape when “The Exorcist” became a success story. Based on a
real life experience, on the surface, it is about a family where the
father Chennabassappa (Dr. Shreeram Lagoo) has a scientific approach
towards life. The god fearing mother (Indrani Mukherjee), on the other
hand, believes in the ritualistic side of religion. One day their
adolescent daughter Umakka (Padmini Kolhapure) gets possessed by a
spirit and they have no clue what to do about it. Their elder son Nandu
(Anant Nag) is rational but he can’t remain one when he sees the
condition of his sister keeps deteriorating despite medical help.
So
where does environment come into the spooky picture? Early in the film,
Chennabassappa goes to his native village to tell the poor caretaker
(Suhas Bhalekar) that he has sold his farm to a factory. The caretaker
wails that he could not do this to him as the land is like his mother.
Chennabassappa takes it lightly and offers him a job in Bangalore. But
the battered soul could not take it and as we discover later decides to
seek revenge by planting an evil spirit in Chennabassappa’s daughter.
Like many proponents of development, Chennabassappa never gets the other
side. As the senior mangager of a company, when in a board meeting
somebody questions the retrenchment because of machines, he coldly
argues, “We are giving them compensation....” Dignity of labour doesn’t
mean anything for him. Though Nandu gradually turns against his father
because of the way he handles his daughter’s treatment, when the story
reaches the climax, he asks the caretaker’s soul why he did this to his
family because after all it was his father’s farm. He doesn’t get the
idea of collective control of nature either. Perhaps that’s why the
caretaker’s spirit doesn’t spare him either as the son also loses it
before the credits roll. The horror story seems like an interesting
metaphor for lopsided development.
Recently, Aruna Raje, the
one-half of the director duo, who were married to each other for 15
years before separating, came out with her autobiography, “Freedom My
Story” (HarperCollins). When one asked her about this interpretation of
the thriller, she said that they did not set out to make a film on
environment but it is through such reading and re-reading that films
like “Gehrayee” remain relevant.
Sometimes revisiting
could be boring as well. In 1980, Sudhir Dalvi would not have an image,
but today, the moment the actor who made a career by playing saintly
characters, enters the frame as a sage, you know things will get better.
No such feelings with Amrish Puri as the evil tantrik, who disrobes
Umakka for a ritual. Aruna says when Steven Spielberg was casting for
“Indiana Jones And the Temple of Doom”, he was sent Puri’s
striking performance in “Gehrayee” as the reference point. The pooja
scene where we could see the bare back of Umakka generated lot of
interest in the media and Aruna says she had to do lot of explaining
that films are a simulated experience. It was the time when Padmini
Kolhapure had just kissed Prince Charles on the cheek when he visited
Mumbai to watch a film shoot. So when “Gehrayee” released, the producer
used it as a publicity stunt to generate interest in a film which had no
stars. He didn’t need to as the audience responded to the theme and the
emotional appeal generated by Kolhapure and Nag with Lagoo lending
solid support as a ruthless guy who even covers his moral digression
with a straight face.
Sound impact
Known for their
melodies, here Laxmikant Pyarelal brought in Tibetan singing bowls and
roped in a visiting American musician to create alien sounds and then
the master of re-recording Mangesh Desai mixed sounds of Grand Prix
motor racing to the track. When it played behind the spooky atmospherics
of the lush Cubbon Park, shot with a hand-held camera, it made even the
thick-skinned develop goosebumps. Jalal Agha gave voice to the spirit
that spoke through Umakka.
Aruna remembers the innovative use of
crab dolly which they hired from Merchant Ivory Productions. It didn’t
require rails like conventional dollies and could move in any direction,
ideal to capture the spirit on the move from room to room. Much before
Ram Gopal Varma, it were Aruna-Vikas who planted bhoot in the ordinary
living room!
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FEAR FACTOR Aruna Raje and Vikas Desai shooting Padmini Kolhapure with a hand-held camera
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