Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Arakalagudu Narasinga Rao Krishnarao

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Jun 23, 2012, 7:58:24 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Arakalagudu Narasinga Rao Krishnarao (1908-71)'''
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+Aka A.Na.Kru; scenarist and prolific Kannada
+novelist, playwright and essayist with c.250
+published titles. A major regional chauvinist
+ideologue in Karnataka. Initially associated
+with the professional Company Natak. After
+books like Udayaraga (1924), a thinly
+disguised fictional biography of Bengal School
+painter Nandalal Bose, and several others
+featuring anxiety-ridden artists as central
+protagonists, he tended more towards the
+‘modern’ within the anglophile Amateur
+Dramatic Association and the literary Pragatisila
+movement derived from the PWA. Used
+influential cultural platforms such as the
+Madhol conference (1945) of the Kannada
+Ekikaran Parishat (the Kannada unification
+movement) to deflect most debates about
+progressivism and modernism towards
+discussions of Karnatakatva (‘Kannada-ness’),
+usually by appealing to ‘the masses’ whose
+‘point of view’ was said to be ignored by
+writers speaking about and addressing an
+urban middle class (Krishnarao, 1944). This
+equation of political regionalism with cultural
+populism was later developed most notably by
+the films of Rajkumar. Wrote a major
+Veeranna film, Jeevana Nataka (1942), the
+original book on which the Kannada film
+Sandhya Raga (1966) is based, and the script
+of B.R. Panthulu’s historical Shri
+Krishnadevaraya (1970). Wrote a novel
+about his experiences in the film industry,
+Chitra Vichitra (1952) and a critical study of
+Ravi Varma (1932). Also scripted Stree Ratna
+for K. Subramanyam (1955).
+
+[[Writer]]