Alluri Seetarama Raju (1974)

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• Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Nandi Award for Best Feature Film

Alluri Seetarama Raju is a 1974 Indian Telugu-language biographical action film directed by V. Ramachandra Rao and written by Tripuraneni Maharadhi. The film stars Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala, and Jaggayya and was produced by Padmalaya Studios. Notably, it was Krishna's 100th film as an actor and the first Telugu film to be entirely made in Cinemascope.

Production

D. L. Narayana, producer of Devadasu (1953), initially sought to make a film based on Alluri Sitarama Raju featuring Sobhan Babu as the title character. However, as the film failed to take off, Narayana had given the story to Krishna who was willing to produce it thus becoming actor's 100th film as an actor. Incidentally it was Tripuraneni Maharadhi who wrote the script for producer D.L. Narayana too. N. T.

According to Maharadhi, the casting was done thorough discussions that involved everyone concerned with the project. S. V. Ranga Rao was originally for the role of Ghantam Dora but he got hospitalised before the film went to sets, he was replaced by M. Balayya.

Filming took place around Chintapalli forest and Krishnadevi Peta forest of Andhra Pradesh around 60 days with 15 days being shot in Madras. Ramachandra Rao died after completing one third of the film. The rest of the film was directed by Krishna; K. S. R. Das handled the war and fight scenes. The film's cinematographer V. S. R. Swamy who "managed the whole movie with just two lenses, one for closeups and another for long shots".

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