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+'''Gharana Mogudu'''
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+1992 149’ col Telugu
+d K. Raghavendra Rao pc Devi Film Prod.
+p K. Devi Varaprasad st P. Vasu dial Parachuri
+Bros. co-lyr Bhuvana Chandra c Ajayan Vincent
+co-lyr/m M.M. Keeravani
+lp Chiranjeevi, Naghma,Vani Vishwanath, Rao
+Gopala Rao, Satyanarayana, Sharat Saxena,
+Aahuti Prasad, P.L. Narayana, Chalapathi Rao,
+Brahmanandam, Ramaprabha, Disco Shanti
+
+
+Unemployed dock worker Raju (Chiranjeevi)
+saves the life of industrialist Bapineedu
+(Gopala Rao) who, in return, offers him a job.
+Raju’s efforts to organise the workers lead to a
+clash with Bapineedu’s daughter Uma Devi
+(Naghma), who runs the company. Raju
+becomes the president of the workers’ union,
+defeating Sarangapani (Prasad) who, it turns
+out, is actually in league with Uma Devi’s chief
+rival Ranganayakulu (Satyanarayana). Uma
+Devi marries Raju shortly after he has saved her
+life following the rivals’ plan to have her
+murdered, but this, it is later revealed, is only in
+order to ‘tame’ the otherwise invincible union
+worker. Raju moves into Uma Devi’s mansion
+where he continues his union work, leading a
+strike when Bhawani (Vishwanath), the woman
+who originally loved him, is dismissed by Uma
+Devi. In the end, when the true villains
+Ranganayakulu and his son (Saxena) try to
+destroy Uma Rani by burning the factory, Raju
+saves his wife again and ‘forgives’ her. Taming
+the wild and arrogant (i.e. independent)
+woman is a major preoccupation of several
+Chiranjeevi films, his adolescent machismo
+being boosted as much by thrashing dozens of
+villains as by putting women in their place (cf.
+Donga Mogudu, 1987; Rickshavudu and
+Alluda Majaaka, both 1995). One of
+Chiranjeevi’s most successful film, its release
+coincided with the brutal repression of a
+Naxalite-led workers’ movements, in this
+instance making reference to the Patancheru
+industrial area in Hyderabad. Several notorious
+‘encounters’ between the police and political
+activists in this period of extreme State
+repression when Janardhana Reddy was the
+State Chief Minister, also led to a genre of
+worker-centered films featuring and made by
+R. Narayanmurthy (eg. Erra Sainyam, 1994).
+The film was a remake of the Rajnikant film
+Mannan (1991).
+
+[[Film]]