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Shri Krishnadevaraya
1970 216’ col Kannada d B.R. Panthulu pc Padmini Pics s A.N. Krishnarao m T.G. Lingappa lp Rajkumar, B.R. Panthulu, Narasimhraju, M.V. Rajamma, R. Nagendra Rao, Bharati, Jayanti, Sudarshan
Panthulu’s last big Kannada historical returns to his familiar terrain of the 16th C. Vijayanagara Empire with its best-known king, Krishnadeva Raya (Rajkumar), his canny minister Thimmarasu (Panthulu) and the wise buffoon Tenali Ramakrishna, all famous figures in the Kannada historical genre. While apparently addressing a regional-chauvinist ‘Kannada Nadu’, the film was in fact shot in Rajasthan, and adopted Rajasthani architecture to locate Karnataka’s ‘cultural pinnacle’.