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Kallu (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Kallu' is a 1988 Indian Telugu-Language ethnographic drama film based on the lives of five blind people directed by M. V. Raghu, based on Gollapudi Maruti Rao's play with the same name. In 2018, the film celebrated its 30th Anniversary by "Mukhi Media" in Hyderabad.
The film won four state Nandi Awards, and the Filmfare Award for Best Direction. It was screened in Indian panorama section of the 'International Film Festival of India', and the 'Hyderabad Film Festival'.http://www.hyderabadfilmclub.org/HIFF%202007/Film%20Festival%202007-part5.pdf The film won thirty awards including special mention from the CBFC Jury.
Cast
*Sivaji Raja
*Chidambaram
*Gundu Hanumantha Rao
*N. J Bhikshu
*Rajeswari
*SP Balasubramanyam (cameo)
*Bhaskar Rao
*Sripada Somayajulu
Awards
;Nandi Awards - 1988(in Telugu)
* Third Best Feature Film - Bronze - D. Vijaya Kumar & A. L. Ananda Rao
* Best First Film of a Director - M. V. Raghu
* Best Story Writer - Gollapudi Maruthi Rao
* Special Jury Award - Kallu Chidambaram
;Filmfare Awards South
*Filmfare Award for Best Director Telugu - M. V. Raghu
References
Category:1988 films
Category:Disability in fiction
Category:1980s Telugu-language films
Category:Films about social issues in India
Category:Indian avant-garde and experimental films
Category:Films about labour
Category:Films scored by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Category:Films about blind people
Category:Indian nonlinear narrative films
Category:Films about disability in India
Category:Telugu-language literature
Category:Fictional characters with disability
Category:Social realism in film
Category:Films about poverty in India
Category:Indian drama films
Category:Films about blind people in India
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