Colourful Dream
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1983
- Original language
- Telugu
- Spoken languages
- Telugu
- Director
- B. Narsing Rao
- Writer
- B. Narsing Rao
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0261223