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Articles: Literature | Naveen’s Ampasayya
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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He therefore does not pursue this strand to the logical conclusion. The love affair, such as it is, ends for Ravi when he realises that he has no money to buy cinema tickets for Kiranmayi and her friends. And for Kiranmayi herself it has never been an idea worth giving a second thought to. It is possible that it never occurred to her that she might be in love with Ravi or he might be in love with her. She just goes away from the cinema hall when her Calcutta fiancé comes to fetch her away, leaving every one, especially Ravi, greatly disappointed. Kiranmayi lives mostly in the reveries of Ravi. She is a mere mirage, a phantom, to be idolised and worshiped but never attained.
He knows only too well that his social and economic status does not permit him the luxury of a wife of Kiranmayi’s background. Although he dreams a lot about Kiranmayi, he does not agonise over her loss. Perhaps he has never even loved her. It could well be that the secretions from his glands set him after her and no noble feelings or honourable intentions. Although an ordinary reader, used as he is to stereotypical stories and idealised characters, may feel cheated it still remains that Naveen is true to life and realistic to an extraordinary degree.
Full forty years after it first appeared Ampasayya is as popular and influential as it always has been. Its appeal to readers, especially the readers in the age group of 20 to 30 years, is irresistible. It is true that the circumstances of life depicted in this novel have considerably changed but the universality of emotions, feelings, loves, hatreds and the workings of the mind to be found in Ampasayya makes it immortal. It joined the honoured list of the Telugu literary classics a long time ago and it will surely remain there forever.
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