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Poola Rangadu (1967)

Poola Rangadu poster
Directed by
Adurthi Subba Rao
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his hometown after years away and discovers that his father was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime. He sets out to prove his father's innocence and uncover the real culprit.

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What happens

Poola Rangadu is a 1967 Indian Telugu-language crime drama film, produced by D. Madhusudhana Rao under Annapurna Pictures and directed by Adurthi Subba Rao and produced by D. Madhusudhana Rao. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jamuna, Sobhan Babu, Vijaya Nirmala, with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao. The film is a remake of the 1955 Bengali film Sabar Uparey, which itself is based on A. J. Cronin's 1950 novel Beyond This Place. It was released on 24 November and became a box office success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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