Revolver Rani (1971)

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Revolver Raani (1971) poster

Not noticed or hyped as much as the Northern counterparts

The original Telugu Revolver Rani

Telugu Movie DataBase/ TMDB, on May 3, 2014

Not many people know that the first Revolver Rani was made in Telugu in 1971 with actress Vijayalalitha ( aunt of VijayaSanthi) as the heroine. This was made in those days where the Telugufied Cow boy movies were being made and she played the pivotal role as the Revolver Rani .This film also had Super star Krishna in a brief role and the rest of the movie shows Vijayalalitha fighting the bad guys and here comes the best part –Fights a lion too .Now we didn’t see Kangana do that. Its always the Southies who have done these kind of things for the first time. Only they don’t get noticed or hyped as much as the Northern counterparts.

A national phenomenon

Not true, Indpaedia protests, not true at all.

The original Telugu Revolver Rani was a B movie even by 1971 Telugu standards. It was in black and white in an age when even B films in Hindi-Urdu were made in colour (though on some cheap colour negative). All the same, Revolver Rani was a sensational, crossover, national phenomenon in 1971-72. It was dubbed into Hindi-Urdu and made very decent profits on the national B movie circuit. The Bombay-based media ran huge stories about this phenomenon—and about actress Vijayalalitha.

While Revolver Rani was not the kind of film that sophisticated national audiences flocked to, the whole nation was aware of this phenomenon from Andhra Pradesh. In its own way Revolver Rani had greater impact on non-Telugu filmgoers than the mega-hit Bahubali (2015). The term Revolver Rani and the actress Vijayalalitha became household names even among those who had not seen the film.

Memories of the Telugu original were still fresh among national film-lovers several decades later when a Hindi-Urdu film called Revolver Rani (2014) was released and everyone thought they would see a fun remake of the original, only to be disappointed because the Hindi-Urdu film of the same name did not have the chutzpah and freshness of the original.