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Rangula Kala
aka Colourful Dreams 1983 136’ col Telugu d/st/co-sc/co-m B. Narasinga Rao pc Suchitra Int. co-sc/co-lyr Devi Priya co-sc Uppala Narasimham co-sc/dial S.M. Pran Rao co-lyr Gaddar, Angaiah c Venugopal K. Thakker co-m Janardhan lp B. Narasinga Rao,
- Narayana Rao,T. Saichand, Kakarala,
Chandra, Venkata Reddy, Roopa, Shakuntala, Shesham Raju,Sangeetha Behal, Rajyalakshmi, Usha Sheikh, Haritha, Amar Mohan
Narasinga Rao’s debut is an existential melodrama with the director playing a romantic painter, Ravi, whose friends include a trade union leader (Kakarala), an autorickshaw driver, a Marxist journalist (Narayana Rao) and a glib, successful painter (Saichand) whose success contrasts with Ravi’s inability to sell his own work. His neighbour Kankamma, who rejects an evil landlord’s advances, is evicted from her house; the trade unionist is killed in police custody; and Ravi starts exhibiting his work on the streets to indicate his growing politicisation to the satisfaction of his Marxist friend. The film is geared to the CPI(ML)-led political movements in Northern AP and included the compositions and songs of the region’s best-known radical poet and performer, Gaddar.