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* RealityEnsues: Get posted to a disease ridden village to teach school, and eventually you’ll catch something nasty.
** Expected this to be a LoveConquersAll story about our couple overcoming even a deadly disease? NOT!! This is backwater rural India in the 1940s where [[IncurableCoughOfDeath consumption was a death sentence]] particularly for a starving man.
** Expected this to be a LoveConquersAll story about our couple overcoming even a deadly disease? NOT!! This is backwater rural India in the 1940s where [[IncurableCoughOfDeath consumption was a death sentence]] particularly for a starving man.
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* RealityEnsues: Get posted to a disease ridden village to teach school, and eventually you’ll catch something nasty.
**ThePowerOfLove: Defied. Expected this to be a LoveConquersAll love conquers all story about our couple overcoming even a deadly disease? NOT!! This is backwater rural India in the 1940s where [[IncurableCoughOfDeath consumption was a death sentence]] particularly for a starving man.
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* DomesticAbuser: Shivanna thrashes his wife, when he finds out that she has been withholding letters from Narasimha and Rukmini pleading for help when Narasimha gets sick. His wife was also someone who had spread salacious rumors about Rukmini and had a hand in getting her and Narasimha ejected from the village.
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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: Shivanna thrashes his wife, when he finds out that she has been withholding letters from Narasimha and Rukmini pleading for help when Narasimha gets sick. His wife was also someone who had spread salacious rumors about Rukmini and had a hand in getting her and Narasimha ejected from the village.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: See the entry on DomesticAbuser.DomesticAbuse.
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* RealityEnsues: Get posted to a disease ridden village to teach school, and eventually you’ll catch something nasty.
** Expected this to be a LoveConquersAll story about our couple overcoming even a deadly disease? NOT!! This is backwater rural India in the 1940s where [[IncurableCoughOfDeath consumption was a death sentence]] particularly for a starving man.
** Expected this to be a LoveConquersAll story about our couple overcoming even a deadly disease? NOT!! This is backwater rural India in the 1940s where [[IncurableCoughOfDeath consumption was a death sentence]] particularly for a starving man.
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* {{Schoolmarm}}: Narasimha Murthy is a male example.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Narasimha starts coughing. Then he can't stop coughing. Then he is given something to stop the coughing, but is diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Rukmini takes up a job as day laborer at a construction site to pay for Narasimha's tuberculosis treatment.
* HopeSpot: It looks as though things might be turning around. Shivanna, a loyal friend is coming to visit, Rukmini has purchased the drug that will cure Narasimha's tuberculosis and she gets to the sanitarium to find Narasimha sitting up. But then the guy she saw ''wasn't'' her husband. And then ...
* HopeSpot: It looks as though things might be turning around. Shivanna, a loyal friend is coming to visit, Rukmini has purchased the drug that will cure Narasimha's tuberculosis and she gets to the sanitarium to find Narasimha sitting up. But then the guy she saw ''wasn't'' her husband. And then ...
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* TheBadGuyWins: They not only get Narasimha and Rukmini banished in disgrace from the village, the couple [[spoiler: ends up dying too]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: With the rumors really picking up steam, Rukmini contemplates just ending it all. Narasimha pulls her out of it by singing her a song about never ever leaving her. This gets a MeaningfulEcho later on.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Rukmini sings the same song to Narasimha about never ever leaving him, while nursing his sickness, that he had sung to her to prevent her from committing suicide earlier.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Although Narasimha has been running a fever for a day or two, and has been intermittently coughing, on one particular fateful day, he collapses in a coughing fit while teaching his class, dismisses his students for the day, coughs all the way home, collapses in a coughing fit again, then sees the blood on his handkerchief. Understandably, Rukmini panics.
* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Narasimha succumbs to tuberculosis in the end]].
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* [[spoiler: TogetherInDeath]]: Narasimha and Rukmini.Rukmini.
* VictorianNovelDisease: Narasimha is diagnosed with tuberculosis. And his suffering is also portrayed in a fairly realistic way.
* VictorianNovelDisease: Narasimha is diagnosed with tuberculosis. And his suffering is also portrayed in a fairly realistic way.
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And then one morning [[BloodFromTheMouth Narasimha starts coughing up blood]].
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And then one morning [[FromBadToWorse Narasimha starts]] [[BloodFromTheMouth Narasimha starts coughing up blood]].blood]].
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* AddedAliterativeAppeal: The title Benkiya Bale.
* AcceptableTargets: See the entry on DomesticAbuser.
* [[spoiler: DeathByDespair: Rukmini buys the drug needed to treat Narasimha's TB, but finds out that he succumbed to the illness while she was away. She breaks down crying over his corpse, cradles him in her lap while crying all the way while riding in a bullock cart to the cremation ground, then dies when they get there. The cart driver tries to rouse her, but she is unresponsive]].
* DomesticAbuser: Shivanna thrashes his wife, when he finds out that she has been withholding letters from Narasimha and Rukmini pleading for help when Narasimha gets sick. His wife was also someone who had spread salacious rumors about Rukmini and had a hand in getting her and Narasimha ejected from the village.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: None of the rumors swirling around Rukmani are true. Narasimha doesn't believe them, nor does his friend Shivanna. They were spread by a rebuffed suitor, and unfortunately the wrong people ''do'' believe them.
* {{Nepotism}}: The village elder forces Narasimha to transfer to a different village so his son can take up that role instead.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: See the entry on DomesticAbuser.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Narasimha is sent to a poverty stricken disease ridden village where nobody wants to go, of his own volition.
* [[spoiler: TogetherInDeath]]: Narasimha and Rukmini.
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* AddedAliterativeAppeal: The title Benkiya Bale.
* AcceptableTargets: See the entry on DomesticAbuser.
* [[spoiler: DeathByDespair: Rukmini buys the drug needed to treat Narasimha's TB, but finds out that he succumbed to the illness while she was away. She breaks down crying over his corpse, cradles him in her lap while crying all the way while riding in a bullock cart to the cremation ground, then dies when they get there. The cart driver tries to rouse her, but she is unresponsive]].
* DomesticAbuser: Shivanna thrashes his wife, when he finds out that she has been withholding letters from Narasimha and Rukmini pleading for help when Narasimha gets sick. His wife was also someone who had spread salacious rumors about Rukmini and had a hand in getting her and Narasimha ejected from the village.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: None of the rumors swirling around Rukmani are true. Narasimha doesn't believe them, nor does his friend Shivanna. They were spread by a rebuffed suitor, and unfortunately the wrong people ''do'' believe them.
* {{Nepotism}}: The village elder forces Narasimha to transfer to a different village so his son can take up that role instead.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: See the entry on DomesticAbuser.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Narasimha is sent to a poverty stricken disease ridden village where nobody wants to go, of his own volition.
* [[spoiler: TogetherInDeath]]: Narasimha and Rukmini.
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''Benkiya Bale'' (lesion of fire) is a 1983 Carnatic language Sandalwood movie, based on the novel of the same name, written by Bangalore based Carnatic novelist T S Subha Rao. Although the movie was made in the early eighties, it is actually set in the late forties.
This is the [[spoiler: ultimately tragic]] love story of Narasimha Murthy, a primary schoolteacher in rural South India, and of Rukmani, a woman around whom a lot of ugly rumors are swirling. Narasimha Murthy falls for and marries Rukmani in spite of her salacious reputation, and the couple look to be settling into HappilyEverAfter.
Until {{Nepotism}} raises its head to try to displace Narasimha Murthy from his schoolteacher position. After a few direct attempts fail, the ones who want to force Narasimha out of his job [[TheBadGuyWins finally succeed]] by digging up those salacious rumors about Rukmani. The couple are forced to move to a different poverty stricken disease ridden village so Narasimha can teach school there. The couple are forced to endure destitution, isolation and suspicion, but they do endure.
And then one morning [[BloodFromTheMouth Narasimha starts coughing up blood]].
This is the [[spoiler: ultimately tragic]] love story of Narasimha Murthy, a primary schoolteacher in rural South India, and of Rukmani, a woman around whom a lot of ugly rumors are swirling. Narasimha Murthy falls for and marries Rukmani in spite of her salacious reputation, and the couple look to be settling into HappilyEverAfter.
Until {{Nepotism}} raises its head to try to displace Narasimha Murthy from his schoolteacher position. After a few direct attempts fail, the ones who want to force Narasimha out of his job [[TheBadGuyWins finally succeed]] by digging up those salacious rumors about Rukmani. The couple are forced to move to a different poverty stricken disease ridden village so Narasimha can teach school there. The couple are forced to endure destitution, isolation and suspicion, but they do endure.
And then one morning [[BloodFromTheMouth Narasimha starts coughing up blood]].
