TY  - ADVS
AU  - Sethumadhavan, K.S
AU  - K S Sethumadhavan
AU  -  P.L.Narayana
AU  - Rohini
AU  - Vijay
ED  -  National Film Development Corporation Ltd 
TI  - Stri:  
U1  - 791.4372 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Mumbai
PB  - NFDC
KW  - Man-woman relationships -Drama -India, illiterate woman, Women education, Feature films, Motion pictures,  Telgu
N1  - Videodisc release of the 1995 motion picture; Based on Palagummi Padmaraju's Telugu short story "Padava Prayanam."
Special features: digitally re-mastered from the original film; A simple story of an illiterate woman totally faithful to a man whom she intensely love is how the director describes the film belying its emotional complexity that shows the internal conflict between a man and a woman. On the face of it, Rangi and Paddalu are a devoted, happily married couple living for each other. But when Paddalu scarpers with a boatmans cargo, Rangi, left behind, confesses that shes not his wife at all. She was acting as a decoy so he could get away with the booty intended for Paddalu.s other woman, a younger, more beautiful girl. Yet she says Paddalu is her man. Without me he cannot live. Why is she prepared to put her own life and liberty at risk for a man who treats her callously; Music, L. Vaidyanathan ; editing, D. Rajagopal ; cinematography, S. Saravanan
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