Kappu Bilupu (1969)

Original title

ಕಪ್ಪು ಬಿಳುಪು

Directed by

Puttanna Kanagal

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 23m

Rated

U

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Kannada film tells the story of twin sisters with very different personalities and values. One sister embraces a simple rural life while the other seeks a more glamorous but consuming city lifestyle. Their choices create tension with the elders around them who care but cannot fully help.

thoughtfulcontrastingquietmelodramaticmoralisticsimplemovingdomestic

What happens

Kappu Bilupu ( transl. which means Black and White) is a 1969 Indian Kannada language film directed by Puttanna Kanagal. Based on a novel of the same name by Aryamba Pattabhi, this movie revolves around the contrasting behaviuors of an identical, yet distinct pair of twins. The film stars Kalpana in dual roles. Puttanna himself remade the movie in Tamil as Irulum Oliyum and in Telugu as Iddaru Ammayilu. Puttanna used the movie as a medium for speaking to the youth of the ideals he derived from Vivekananda. The settings are simple and mostly rural. The story is about how domestic peace is better than a glamorously consumptive lifestyle. The juxtaposition of the two sisters played by Kalpana in a black and white background is a clever trick. H R Shastry and Balakrishna play dignified elders who, in many ways, are sympathetic but helpless. There were a couple of simple but moving melodies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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