B NARASINGA RAO

Date of Birth:
1946, Pragnapur, Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Telugu director, writer, painter and musician born in Pragnapur, Medak Dist., AP- Arts graduate studies in Hyderabad. Photographer and theatre activist associated with cultural front of Naxalite peasant agitations in North Andhra in mid-70s. Produced Gautam Ghose's debut Maabhoomi (1979.), one of the first full-length fiction films in India made and shown in the Solanas-Getino sense of Third Cinema. First film was a fictionalised autobiography chronicling the politicisation of a young painter (played by himself) racked by moral doubt; Rangula Kala.
All his features and documentaries are contextualised by the radical political traditions of Andhra: e.g. Daasi is located within [he oppressive feudal conditions opposed by the historic Telangana movement of 1946-51. Mostly scripts and composes the music for his films. Published four volumes of poetry and researcher in Andhra folk art and music.

Filmography
Jump to filmography as: Director, Writer, Composer, Producer, Actor
Director:

1. Harivillu (2003)
2. Matti Manushulu (1990)
3. Daasi (1988)
4. Maa Ooru (1987)
5. The City (1985)
6. The Carnival (1984)
7. Rangula Kala (1983)

Writer:

1. Harivillu (2003) (adaptation) (story)
2. Daasi (1988) (writer)
3. Maa Bhoomi (1979) (adaptation) (dialogue)

Composer:

1. Harivillu (2003)
2. Maa Bhoomi (1979)

Producer:
1. Daasi (1988) (producer)
2. Maa Bhoomi (1979) (producer)

Actor:

1. Rangula Kala (1983) .... Ravi