Director: K. Vishwanath; Writer: K. Vishwanath; Producer: Edida Nageswara Rao; Cinematographer: H. Loksingh; Cast: Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Sumalatha, Bannerjee, Charan Raj, P.L. Narayana, Master Arjun, Master Suresh
Duration: 02:36:00; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 137.924; Saturation: 0.041; Lightness: 0.404; Volume: 0.147; Cuts per Minute: 16.274
Summary: Elaborate melodrama with Chiranjeevi as the
illiterate cobbler who raises his dead sister’s
son Chinna (Arjun/Suresh) while also financing
the education of the orphaned Sharada
(Sumalatha). When Sharada marries,
Sambaiah’s lover Ganga (Vijayashanti) is
sterilised so that nothing will interfere with
Chinna’s growth. Ganga assists Sambaiah in
becoming enormously wealthy, but this causes
several problems: Chinna’s biological father
Govind (Raj) teams up with Sharada’s no-good
husband Bhaskar (Bannerjee) to make a series
of demands on Sambaiah and to claim Chinna’s
guardianship. Eventually, Chinna rebels against
his father and both he and Sambaiah return to
the latter’s modest original profession of
cobbler. The film was a critical success, notably
for recasting action star Chiranjeevi in an
unusual role, which also constituted his
influential effort to transform his screen image
by entering what is known in Telugu cinema as
the ‘class film’. Less than two years after the
formation of the Dalit Mahasabha in A.P.
(1985), the film posits a conservative resolution
to an important political movement in its
evacuation of all caste conflict in favour of a
fictional conflict between ‘good’ and ‘bad’
Dalits.
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