Re: On plagiarism and source for plots
Sudesh K Pillutla (sudesh@wt.net)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:27:45 -0600
There are two sides to any story. One is the story itself and second
equally important aspect is the story telling. Though yanDamoori may be
churning out trash nowadays, I think there is no denying that he is a
master story teller. tulasidaLam, vennelo ADapilla, maraNa mrudangam etc
are fine examples of that. In my opinion most of his work in 80s qualifies
for good reading. Obviously we cannot at all compare writers like
koDavaTiganTi etc with yanDamoori - it is like comparing apples and
oranges. I donot think we can call him a trash either just because he is
pandering to the public tastes just the way we cannot call the great bApu (
director) a trash for making movies like bullet (with krishnam raju). If
there are readers out there, I think yanDamuri can tell a very compelling
story.
With due respects
Sudesh Pillutla
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> From: Bapa Rao <brao@tis.com>
> To: telusa-scit@smartcad4.me.wisc.edu
> Subject: Re: On plagiarism and source for plots
> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 12:12 PM
>
> Legal issue aside, I wouldn't mind plagiarism ("creative adaptation")
> so much if it had any quality to it. Most of the Telugu plagiarisms of
> trashy English fiction adds a unique, extraordinary level of its own
> trashiness to the work. The result has the effect of the writer saying
> to the reader, "I know you are such an idiot that you will swallow
> whatever swill I pour out, so I won't bother to be careful or creative
> in my copying." I recently read a work by Yandamoori Virendranath
> (something about the impending end of the world because of a cosmic
> event) that was so extraordinarily bad that it has the potential to
> spawn its own private genre of "tiTTu kavitvam." Fortunately I have
> even forgotten the name of this piece of pollution; if I repeated the
> name some misguided soul might feel like reading it.
>
> On Virendranath--I know that he is well thought of as a master of the
> language and a superior commercial writer. Having read the book I did,
> I find it impossible to believe that the man has any quality or value
> to his work at all. That, even making allowances for earlier, less
> mature work etc. I just can't imagine him producing anything but the
> most cynical, worst-quality trash.
>
> My personal views.
>
> Bapa Rao
>
>