Prahalada (1939)

Original title

பிரகலாதா

Directed by

B. N. Rao

Genre

drama

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 12m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young devotee named Prahlada faces conflicts for his unwavering faith in the god Vishnu. The film retells this ancient Hindu story, featuring gods and demons in a tale of devotion and divine intervention.

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What happens

Prahalada is a 1939 Indian Tamil language film directed by B. N. Rao. It deals with the story of Prahlada and his devotion to Lord Vishnu. It was one of the earliest adaptations of this mythologic story after the 1932 Telugu version. The story has subsequently been adapted 20 times in numerous languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Assamese with most of them being successful at the box office. It is also the one of those rare instances where a story has been adapted so many times, generally to box-office success. The film's story is based on the story of Narasimha and Prahlada. It features M. G. Ramachandran as Lord Indra This was the sixth film of Ramachandran who later became one of the popular actors of the Tamil film industry. The film also featured a sword fight sequence between M.G. Ramachandran and Santhanalakshmi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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