Year:1974
Director:V. Ramachandra Rao
Cast:Gattamaneni Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala , Kongara Jaggayya, Chandramohan , Sridhar
Review:
Take an opinion poll today in Andhra Pradesh to name the most selfless freedom fighter from the state, a significant number would recall the name Alluri Seetha Rama Raju instantly. But it’s a shame that not many of us knew how ASR inspired the marginalized people in the Northern Circar region to fight for their basic rights untill we watched this eponymously titled movie.
Produced by Superstar Krishna himself on his flagship Padmalaya, this high budget movie chronicles the events that led to the Rampa rebellion. Inspired by the ideologies of the “extremists” or “radicals” in the freedom movement like ‘Lal, Bal, Pal’, Ajith Singh, Balagangadhara Pillay and others, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju (Superstar) unites the meak and forms a rebellion that eventually fights the feared Assam Riffles wing of the British military for over a year in what has now come to be known as the “Rampa Rebellion”.
