Have you ever thought, why there is 1..2..3.. Go and not 1..2..Go or 1..2..3..4...Go ??
Its an observation that triplet is the best way to program the brain. 1..2 Go is too early and 1..2..3..4.. Go is too late.
This is not my theory but many speakers and story-tellers say and follow this. They always suggest, if you are talking about a subject, tell three good points and three bad points, if you are narrating a story of yours, like your childhood life, pick the three interesting incidents that happened when you were a child. Its because anything beyond three could make it boring, because of too much stuff and anything less than three could look short and may not cause expected impact. That is the reason most of the times we see the triplet of something being done. That is the beauty of 3.
In the screenplay of Arundathi as well, there are lot of places where the triplet formula is used. Since the credits for the film are given as, Story-Screenplay - Mallemala Team and Director - Kodi Ramakrishna, and as I am going to discuss about the screenplay and since I dont have authentic evidence of who the actual screenwriters are, I am not going to take any name but will just call as 'Writers'.
1. Three characters Pasupathi used for his advantage in first half of the story:
When the film begins, we come to know that villain Pasupathi has grudge on Arundathi but he is locked in Samadhi in Gadwal Mahal and Arundathi is not in Gadwal. So he has to bring her to Gadwal, kill her and he also should come out of the Samadhi. Here, writers made use of three characters for accomplishing those things:
ii. Rahul (Arundathi fiance) - Once she came to Gadwal, Pasupathi mimics like her fiancé and asks her to come to his Mahal so that he can kill her there but however his attempt fails because Phakir Shayaji shinde protects her and pulls her out of Mahal. But Pasupathi made use of a character for his benefit and succeeded in bringing her to the Mahal.
iii. Ramana (Aundathi relative) - Pasupathi traps Ramana and his wife who are travelling in a car carrying Arundathi's wedding card and kills his wife, in the first few min of the film. After that, the same Ramana is used to break the Samadhi at the interval block and lets Pasupathi out.
2. Three Evil-Acts of Pasupathi in back-story - for character Build:
When the back-story starts, its obvious that Pasupathi is the Villain and he would have done some evil acts to the people. Here he is a Womanizer. To show that the writers used the triplet formula and this time they gradually increased the intensity of his evil acts one by one:
i. Pasupathi is introduced as a womanizer grabbing the ladies who ever he sees in the town. This is a small dose, showing how he is outside.
ii. Pasupathi, along with group of whores in his bed-room, ill-treats his wife. This is medium dose showing how he treats his family people.
iii. Pasupathi grabs the opportunity when he sees the blind dancer in his Mahal and then he stabs her with a sword before raping her. This is a high dose given to show the evilness in his character. Audience watching this scene will definitely want this guy to be dead.
Having successfully set audience mood to hate the Villain, and anticipate his fall, the writers next made Arundathi to feel same by making her sister commit suicide. That is the motivation for Arundathi to punish Pasupathi and throw him out of the kingdom but for audience the motivation already got established at the end of the triplet.
3. Three disguises Pasupathi used after coming out from Samadhi:
As Pasupathi is just a evil-soul, once he comes out of Samadhi, he has to use someone's body to accomplish his goal, which is nothing but to torture Arundathi. In that process, again he uses three persons before he actually becomes himself in the climax.
i. First he uses the maid girl body to scare and warn Arundathi that he is out of Samadhi and he has come for her. Tension builds (1).
Arundathi gets scared and she runs out in search of the Phakir but she fails to meet him due to his unavailability. She goes in search of Phakir but Pasupathi threatens her while she is leaving Gadwal in search of Phakir and thus she comes back to her home. Tension kept continously build (2).
ii. Once she is back, Pasupathi again takes a human form this time a different lady and threatens Arundathi to send all his family members out or otherwise he is going to kill everyone. Everyone leaves and its only Arundathi and Pasupathi in the entire house. Tension build to the peaks (3).
There is an internal triplet here - the writers kept the suspense and tension build continuously with three events happening one after the other and finally the tension is broken when Phakir comes to the house and rescues helpless Arundathi from Pasupathi. Notice that Phakir did not come at tension 1 or 2 but comes after 3rd scene.
iii. Third is when Arundathi comes to know about the entire back story, and finds out that there is a weapon to kill Pasupathi. She goes in search of the weapon. To distract her, he brings her fiancé Rahul back to Gadwal and sends message to Arundathi that Rahul is in a danger. Arundathi stops her run for weapon and comes back to Gadwal to save Rahul. That's when Pasupathi takes a human form of auto driver and tries to take Rahul in a auto to Mahal to kill him. However, Arundathi reaches in time and spoils Pasupathi's plan.
Interesting right! We are not done here, there are few more triplets that can be found in Arundathi. But since we are talking about triplet, I am stopping here, after discussing three triplets. In my next blog, I will discuss another three triplets of Arundathi. Watch out!
- Sai Kiran
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