Rangasthalam (2018) on Netflix
Chittibabu irrigates fields in a village where Phanindra Bhupathi's cooperative society exploits farmers. His brother Kumar Babu returns from the Gulf and challenges Bhupathi's thirty-year rule.
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Plot summary
Rangasthalam is a village in the 1980s, where Panchayat President Phanindra Bhupathi rules through a cooperative Society that charges villagers predatory interest and seizes their property. Chittibabu, who is partially deaf, works a diesel motor to water the fields. His elder brother Kumar Babu comes home from the Persian Gulf, sees the Society feeding on farmers who cannot read, and decides to take on Bhupathi, exposing the fraud and urging the villagers to seek representation of their own. Chittibabu, meanwhile, pursues Ramalakshmi, who first misunderstands him because of his hearing impairment. Kumar Babu then enters the panchayat election race to break a hold on the village that has lasted thirty years.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rangasthalam (2018)
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- Unable to bear the heat during Rangasthalam's first schedule, Samantha fainted on the sets and the schedule wrapped a day early. Filming was then postponed by a month over the rising temperatures in the Godavari belt.
- Rangasthalam is one of the first few Indian films to be entirely shot using Red Helium 8K cameras, chosen for their "great dynamic range" and for filming sequences under extremely low light conditions.
- Some Rangasthalam locations were scheduled to be submerged under the Polavaram Project and were either deserted or had limited inhabitation. Because of the lack of proper communication and facilities, the crew and equipment traveled by boat to Rajahmundry after each day's shoot.
- Most of Rangasthalam was shot in a village set worth ₹5 crore erected in Hyderabad, and only ten percent of the film's footage was shot in and around Rajahmundry.
- Chandrabose wrote Rangasthalam's lyrics at Puducherry after holding discussions with Sukumar and Prasad, completing five of the six songs in four days, each in about half an hour.
- The initial release of Rangasthalam's soundtrack contained only five tracks; the sixth was excluded because it contained spoilers about the film's plot.
- Due to the rains during the shoot, M90 Lights were used to bring the harsh burnt-out look, and after the grass turned green, Ramakrishna replaced the soil and planted dry grass to maintain the initially planned colour palette.
- A screen test was conducted on Anupama in January 2017 before selecting her as the female lead of Rangasthalam, though Samantha was finalised later for the same.
