Gulabi Talkies is a 2008 Kannada-language Drama motion picture directed by Girish Kasaravalli and produced by Amrutha Patil and Basanth Kumar Patil. Gulabi is a discarded fifty something woman, an outcast living on an island with the fisher folk. Her obsession for films is fulled with the introduction of a television in her life and her village hut becomes a hub. Gulabi talkies stars Umashree, K. G. Krishna Murthy, M. D. Pallavi, K.g. Krishnamurthy, Poornima Mohan, M.d. Pallavi and Sujatha Shetty. The screenplay is written by Girish Kasaravalli which is inspired from Gulabi Talkies and Other Stories by Vaidehi. The music was composed by Isaac Thomas Kottukapally. Cinematography was done by S. Ramachandra and editing by M. N. Swamy and S. Manohar. The film has a running time of 123 minutes. It was released on 5th September 2008. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Basanth Productions. At the 2008 National Film Awards It won an award for Best Actress (Umashree). At the 2008 National Film Awards It also won an award for Best Feature Film in Kannada. Gulabi is a discarded fifty something woman, an outcast living on an island with the fisher folk. Her obsession for films is fulled with the introduction of a television in her life and her village hut becomes a hub.