The name Kalyani was chosen by the script writer to emphasise the contradiction between the meaning of her name indicating auspiciousness and her contrasting penury.
In a sort of epilogue, written many years later, she tells how she married again after 11 years of widowhood, for fear of losing her money and becoming a burden to her children -- and how within two years of the wedding, her new husband went bankrupt, leaving her in penury.
Blanchett has been the front-runner since July, when critics first caught wind of her turn in Allen's Blue Jasmine as a boozy, Blanche-like socialite keeping her illusions aloft after a Madoff-like scandal reduces her to penury.
They intended, he suggested, to drive her into penury and then obtain the rights.
The author JK Rowling, whose Harry Potter series rescued her from penury just 13 years ago, is now said to be worth £519m, thanks partly to royalties and the marketing of the franchise, which will culminate in a Wizarding World theme park opening in Florida in June.
Though Jardine may be right to diagnose a scar, her talk of penury seems exaggerated.
Young women are drawn nonetheless to Cinderella stories like that of Eri Momoka, a single mother who became a hostess and worked her way out of penury to start a TV career and her own line of clothing and accessories.
Taken to court when she refused taxation without representation, she was saved from penury by her suffragette sisters.
Carol has tried, over the years, to stage minor bourgeois interventions to alleviate what she sees as her daughter's appalling penury, but Diane rejects creature comforts as immoral.
