The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema

When Satyam confronts Yama, the God of Death is shown as a hardworking, law-abiding God unlike other gods who mortals depend on, such as Varuna (God of Rain, who is criticized for being shoddy at his job), Agni and Vayu (gods of Fire and Wind, who collude and set fire to houses of the poor and destroy them), and Kubera (God of Wealth, who has been

Garimella Satyanarayana injected ideology into folk songs without literary baggage, which sat easier on tongues.

The film’s protagonist, Arjun, is abusive, misogynistic, and an all-round terrible human being. This much has been understood. Even his Hindi counterpart, Kabir, did not differ much.

They were soldiers under Kakatiya Kings who ruled parts of the Telugu states between 10th and twelfth century. When the kings of the Vijayangara Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth century wanted to attack Tamil kings they used Kamma soldiers which explains their presence in the southernmost state.

It is no coincidence that Krishna Deva Raya, the writer-poet, is also the region’s most remembered king.

NTR, a year before launching his party, would use the part-history and part-folk mythos around the region of Bobbili. This region is touted to have produced fierce warriors who fought against colonial forces. Tales of the historic battle over the Bobbili Fort and the royal families of the region are retold much like the Rajputs and Maratha retellin

I found a small book that spoke about Tarimala Nagireddy aka Comrade TN. He was a Telugu man. He too, like me, was from Anantapur District in Andhra Pradesh. But more importantly, he was a Communist leader, so committed to the cause of economic and social equality, that he eventually rebelled against his own father and redistributed hundreds of acr

The urban rich found Chandrababu Naidu as the pioneer of these new aspirations, the rural poor found a voice in Y.S.R. in 2004 after he walked as much as the length of the state, but the Left threw no new leaders or appeared to have a clue on how to tackle the urban nature of the new voters.

admiration is part human nature, serving the rational purpose of fuelling ambitions.