| 1 | '''Kshana Kshanam''' |
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| 4 | 1991 158’ col/scope Telugu |
| 5 | d/st/sc Ram Gopal Varma pc NRP Films |
| 6 | p K.L. Narayana, Y. Lakshmana Choudhury |
| 7 | dial Satyanand lyr Seetharama Sastry, |
| 8 | Vennelakanti c S. Gopal Reddy |
| 9 | m M.M. Keeravani |
| 10 | lp Venkatesh, Sridevi, Paresh Rawal, Rami |
| 11 | Reddy, Brahmanandam, Krishna Rao |
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| 14 | When the sexy working woman Satya (Sridevi) |
| 15 | happens upon a clue to some hidden loot, she |
| 16 | is targeted by a gang led by the villain Nayar |
| 17 | (Rawal). Teaming up with a petty crook |
| 18 | Chandu (Venkatesh), the pair are chased |
| 19 | through the film by both the criminals and the |
| 20 | police. This megabudget chase film opens with |
| 21 | a suspenseful bank raid, moves to surreal forest |
| 22 | scenes as the couple rough it beside a camp |
| 23 | fire, and climaxes as the hero fights the |
| 24 | gangsters atop a moving train. Director Varma |
| 25 | shows himself able to assimilate recent |
| 26 | Hollywood styles influenced by TV advertising |
| 27 | and music clips (cf. John Badham’s Bird on a |
| 28 | Wire, 1990). Most of the songs are inserted |
| 29 | with no connection whatever to the plot, |
| 30 | unusual even in a tradition noted for the |
| 31 | autonomy of its song picturisations. Film critic |
| 32 | Rajeev Velicheti (1992) used the film to identify |
| 33 | a recent trend of consumerist cinema in AP |
| 34 | calibrated on the linguistic-regional attitudes of |
| 35 | a Hyderabad-based middle-class. The film was |
| 36 | dubbed in Hindi as Hairaan. |
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