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3 minutes ago, walter18 said:

jagan biopic sarainodu 
aadhi excellent performance as jagan 
shows ys rajasheker reddy cruel nature in climax 

 

Kani ysr ki Chala similar ga choopetadu climax lo boya Anna 

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Telugu actor Krishna's political satire on NTR rule 
 
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Use the silver screen to debunk a political hero created by it: that is the dictum that Telugu actor and Congress(I) activist Krishna has used with telling effect in Naa Pilupe Prabhanjam (Clarion Call).

A devastating piece of political satire, the film lampoons the chicanery, confusion and corruption of the Telugu Desam's 44 months in power with thinly veiled characterisations of Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao and the coterie of family members which surrounds him. The film - in which Rama Rao's parallel is a despotic ruler of an island state - ends with a call to the people to be more careful in choosing their next leader.

In what might be a commentary on Rama Rao's personal popularity, the film has been drawing packed houses at the 75 theatres in the state where its 54 prints have been exhibited regularly during the fortnight since it was released. Rama Rao himself has not commented on the film but its success has caused considerable apprehension among Telugu Desam legislators and ministers, who have invariably seen it on pirated video tapes. Charged an MLA: "Krishna got it past the censors only because the Censor Board is controlled by the Central Government."
 

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Telugu actor - and Congress(I) activist - Krishna's film Naa Pilupe Prabhanjam is a political satire on Rama Rao's rule which has got the Telugu Desam worried by the crowds it is drawing

Worried Rama Rao fans, led by their association President Sripat Rajeshwar, MLA, tried to stop the screening of the film in Hyderabad by threatening cinema hall owners. But the move backfired when distributors called a press conference to protest against the harassment. Observed a political commentator: "The fact that Telugu Desam legislators are developing doubts about the popularity of their leader shows that the film is bound to change the minds of the gullible villagers."

The hero of the film is Krishna in the role of a conscientious "deputy general" of the police in the island state of Trilinga Deevi (Trilinga is the land of the Telugus and Deevi is island) who decides to light the despotic rule of its ruler Kodandaramaiah. Like Rama Rao, Kodandaramaiah has a booming voice, a stately gait, idiosyncrasies like rolling his eyes when angry and talks unceasingly of the Trilinga culture and way of life.

Kodandaramaiah decrees that nobody should sit across him in his office-visitors sit in two rows of chairs facing each other on either side, as they do in Rama Rao's presence. Kodandaramaiah's spectacled pedda alludu (elder son-in-law) is Rama Rao's elder son-in-law Dr Venkateshwarao Rao, and the overbearing chinna alludu (younger son-in-law) is the Telugu Desam General Secretary N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Prodded by the frank but tactless advice of the pedda alludu and influenced by the machinating chinna alludu (called 'Babu Garu' in the film, as in real life), Kodandaramaiah runs his kingdom very much like Rama Rao has ruled Andhra Pradesh. Rama Rao had lowered the retirement age of government employees from 58 to 55; Kodandaramaiah reduces it from 59 to 56.
 

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Rama Rao encourages sycophancy by allowing visitors to fall at his feet: so does Kodandaramaiah. An empty treasury compelled Rama Rao to withdraw some of his populist welfare measures; Kodandaramaiah talks of taxing trees to finance welfare schemes.

The film does not have a story-line - it is a string of incidents held together by a sharply worded script. Nor is it great cinema, but it succeeds admirably in becoming a grim reminder of high-handed family rule. Only the denouement - Kodandaramaiah is forced to flee and his younger son-in-law is sent to jail - is fantasy: the rest is mostly true to life. Says S. Krishna Rao, a clerk in the state secretariat: "Only if our women who are sold on Rama Rao's charms see this film, can Andhra Pradesh hope for happier days."

Meanwhile, the Telugu Desam is said to be preparing in celluloid its answer to the challenge. Rama Rao's son, Balakrishna, is likely to star in the proposed film, but the party's ministers cannot decide whether the focus of their attack should be the Congress(I)'s earlier rule in the state or the life of Krishna. Either way, Andhra's star wars are clearly hotting up.

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