Naarappa

Naarappa

In the 1980s Anantapur district, a man and a boy are trekking across a river, carrying homemade bombs. In another part of the village, a woman, a man, and a young girl are also hiding from the police. The narrator reveals in a flashback that the man is Narappa and the boy is his son Seenappa. The woman, man, and child are Narappa's wife, Sundaramma, her brother Basavaiah and daughter Bujjamma. They also had an older son called Munikanna. They are a family of farmers living in Ramasagaram. Narappa has a close relationship with his older son but is distant, almost abusive with Seenappa. Narappa is from a family of farmers. Panduswamy is a landlord from Vadakoor (lit. northern village), who plans a cement factory with his youngest son Doraswamy and they need Narappa's 3 acres of land, to which the family is against selling, especially Munikanna. One day Sundaramma is attacked by Panduswamy's son Rangababu, to which Munikanna retaliates by severely injuring him and gets imprisoned. Consequently, Narappa pleads with Panduswamy to get Munikanna released, and he asks Narappa to prostrate before every male resident of the landlord's village as atonement, to reinforce the caste pride of Panduswamy. Once released, Munikanna comes to know of this event and in rage, Munikanna beats Panduswamy with a slipper. As revenge, Panduswamy orders his henchmen, led by a hunter Gampanna to kill Munikanna. They behead Munikanna and his nude headless body is dumped in the village.

Director

Srikanth Addala

Release

20 Jul 2021

Run time

153 min

Language

Telugu