Shri Krishnadevaraya (1970)
Director: B.R. Panthulu; Writer: A.N. Krishnarao; Cast: Rajkumar (Kannada Actor), B.R. Panthulu, Narasimhraju, M.V. Rajamma, R. Nagendra Rao, Bharati, Jayanti, Sudarshan
Duration: 03:11:16; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 14.348; Saturation: 0.145; Lightness: 0.311; Volume: 0.433; Cuts per Minute: 10.901; Words per Minute: 90.838
Summary: 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’.
Creating a mythology around the King, the alliances that Vijaynagar empire formed for the sake of army supplies, the Krishne resonance of birth, Devaki and Yasodha examples.
Ravi Vasudevan's work on Pukar and Humayun towards the Indian historical genres. Palace intrigue (substantiate)
Assuming that intrigue was present the proportion of representation is always exaggerated.
Mysore becomes too common, a certain grandeur needed to be established, use of landscape? Possible answers for using an alien place,
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