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Tabarana Kathe |
(Tabara's
Tale/Kanada/Colour/1987/140 min) |
Direction & Script |
:
Girish Kasaravalli |
Camera |
:
Madhu Ambat |
Music |
:
L.Vaidyanathan |
Lead Players |
:
Charu Hasan, Nalina Murthy, Krishna
Murthy, Jayaram, Master Santosh |
Production |
: Apoorva
Chitra. |
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This film is about the cruelty and indifference of the bureaucratic system. Tabara Setty,
a peon in a municipality, feels proud when he is appointed a revenue collector in
post-independence India.
Tabara's efforts to collect tax run into difficulties. His honesty only earns the wrath of
the rich coffee planters. He becomes a victim of his own principles. He is asked to remit
the money which he has not collected. This minor error comes in the way of sanctioning his
pension after retirement.
His wife falls ill and he has no money for the treatment. He literally runs from pillar to
post, falling at everybody's feet to get his pension. Bureaucracy only complicates the
issue and Tabara is totally disillusioned. He becomes ever cynical when he is not able to
save his wife. He announces his entire pension money to the Silver Jubilee Celebration
Fund. |
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