గిరిజా కళ్యాణం [Girija Kalyanam]

by Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani, Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani

పెళ్ళంటే పవిత్రమైన బాధ్యత అనే అభిప్రాయం గిరిజది.జీవితమంటే భార్య,పిల్లలు,బాధ్యత అనే ఎలాంటి బాదరబందీ లేకుండా ఆకాశంలో విహంగంలా స్వేచ్ఛగా,ఆనందంగా సాగి పోవాలంటాడు చెందూ.

విధి విచిత్రంగా ఈ ఇద్దరినీ భార్యాభర్తల్ని చేసింది. పెళ్ళయిన మొదటి రాత్రే చెందూ “ఇది కేవలం తాతయ్య పోరు పడలేక చేసుకున్న పెళ్ళి,నీకూ,నాకూ ఎలాంటి సంబంధమూ లేదు.త్వరలో నీకు డైవోర్స్ ఇచ్చేస్తాను” అని చెప్పేసి గిరిజని నిశ్చేష్టురాలిని చేశాడు.

విభిన్న ధృవాలైన ఈ ఇద్దరి భవిష్యత్తు ఏమైంది?

సులోనారాణి తన రమణీయమైన శైలితో ఉత్కంఠతతో మిమ్మల్ని ఉక్కిరి బిక్కిరి చేసేట్టు వ్రాసిన నవల.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani is a renowned Telugu novelist. She was very popular among the ladies and the younger generation for her novels about love and drama, with a great fan following during the 1970s and early ’80s. She used to have a strong inclination towards literature from her childhood. She has written over 80 novels. Several of her stories were made into films and television serials. She won two Nandi Awards. Yaddanapudi died of a heart attack on 18 May 2018 in California, U.S., while visiting her daughter.

Reviews

[Mahi]

పాత కాలపు ఆలోచనలతో నిండివున్నా, ఈ పుస్తకంలో ఏదో తెలియని ఆకర్షణ వుంది. అది చాలామటుకు గిరిజ పాత్ర వలనే అని అనిపిస్తుంది.

This was quite old-fashioned, unsurprisingly, but it still had a lot of charm. I loved how much drama there was.

Girija was an admirable character who maintained her self-respect no matter what life threw at her. Chandu honestly did not deserve her. It was hard to care about him when he was an errant man-child for much of the book. On the other hand, Madhu deserved the world and he was just... thrown away and forgotten about, it was terrible :( This applies to a lot of things in the book. Ravi is the center of Girija's world... until he isn't needed for the plot anymore. Chandu is staying away from Girija because of Rosie... until the plot demands that he love Girija.

Also why did we forget that Chandu literally killed Rosie? Like everyone says it wasn't his fault but he was drunk driving in the rain??? Also also he literally caused Madhu's death. I know he didn't mean to but Madhu was only on that train because of his transfer and it's just weird that this is never brought up.

I think overall the book would have been better if the Rosie flashback simply didn't exist. Chandu's personality and avoidance of marriage made sense even before that reveal and it didn't add anything because it wasn't actually part of any of the resolutions. It reminds me of Mouna Ragam where the girl has a perfectly reasonable outlook on marriage until of course it has to be revealed that she loved someone else before and that's the only reason she isn't interested in this guy.

Even though I had a lot of complaints, I still enjoyed this in parts and want to read more of the famous Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani.

I listened to the audiobook by Konduru Tulsidas and it was excellent! He has such a good storytelling voice. Also I watched the movie made based on this a long time ago and so spent the entire book imagining Girija as Jayaprada... such perfect casting.

[Hitesh Kumar]

3.5/5 - Great writing with Sulochana rani garu's mark characterizations. The beauty of this novel lies in its writing. The way in which some scenes play out is out of the world. While reading this we may think some of the plot points as unnecessary but in later portions we'll get to know the power and impact of these plot points. That's how damn good this novel's writing is, but plot wise, its not unique (According to this gen) as her previous work.

[Ajith Reddy]

Classic 💙

[Raju]

Nice

[Durga Venkateswarlu]

good novel

[Haritha]

Good novel .. based on which famous daily serial Radha madhu was made is available at Chirukaanuka .com

[Adithya Godaba]

Had read it in 2024.About a Girl married to a rich household to a disinterested guy.This MC is what I believe a strong independent women might be like.