Bhakta Prahlada

1958 179’ b&w Kannada d H.S. Krishnaswamy, M.V. Subbaiah Naidu pc Shri Sahitya Samrajya Nataka Mandali s M.S. Bangaramma lyr G. Mahalinga Bhagavathar c K. Balu m L. Mallesh Rao lp M.V. Subbaiah Naidu, Lakshmibai, Udaya Kumar, Leelavathi, Narasimhraju, G. Mahalinga Bhagavathar, P.R. Venugopal, Master Loknath

Subbaiah Naidu and R. Nagendra Rao’s theatre company staged many mythologicals which had a major influence on South Indian cinema, including Bhakta Prahlada and Bhukailasa. K. Shankar and AVM made the best-known film adaptation of Bhukailasa (1958), while S. Naidu and Nagendra Rao themselves made the screen adaptation of Bhakta Prahlada, their best-known filmed mythological. It tells the Ramayana’s Vishnu Purana legend of the demon Hiranyakashapu, his son Prahlada, a devotee of Vishnu, and Vishnu’s eventual triumph over the demon in his man-lion avatar.

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