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Articles: Literature | Chillara Devullu
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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Similarly, Reddy too dies in effect when he can do nothing about his daughter’s illness. All his power and money are of no help. The moment people sense that he is in a helpless situation, they stop co-operating with him, shut their doors against him and pass this verdict: “Will all the sins go just like that?” Reddy is however given an opportunity to repent and regret his sins—the murders, the rapes and beatings—before succumbing to cancer.
Chillara Devullu is thus basically conservative in intent and execution. Traditional attitudes are reinforced. Vanaja remains a slave. Tayaru does exactly what her mother did a generation ago. The hero, Pani, though good and talented, remains ineffectual up until the very end. In spite of the fact that Reddy has become a spent force and is completely at the mercy of Pani towards the end at of the novel, he has to turn out to be the cousin of Manjari to be able to marry her! Institutions are shown to be neither altered nor improved.
Apart from the vague suggestion that with Pani marrying Manjari and by virtue of that becoming the deshmukh of the village there could be a happy turn of events in the village, the novel stops at the point of depicting the reality of the Telangana rural life during a particularly bad period of history against the drama of human love. It does not suggest any radical solutions to the larger problems facing the society of the time. But then, so faithful a depiction of reality is perhaps in itself a great artistic achievement.
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