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'''Kallakuri Narayana Rao''' (28 April 1871 – 27 June 1927) was social reformer, play writer, Cinematographer and nationalist. His honorific name is "Mahakavi". His famous plays were Varavikrayam,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.andhrabharati.com/nATakamulu/varavikrayamu/index.html|title=ఆంధ్రభారతి - నాటకములు - వరవిక్రయము - కాళ్లకూరి నారాయణరావు|website=www.andhrabharati.com|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> Chintamani,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avkf.org/BookLink/display_author_books.php?author_id=3017|title=Display Books of this Author|website=www.avkf.org|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&q=kallakuri+narayana+rao+play&pg=PA560|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|last=Das|first=Sisir Kumar|date=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788172017989|language=en}}</ref> Madhuseva, Chitrabhyudayam and Padmavyuham(1919).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=kallakuri+narayana+rao+play&pg=PA315|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|last1=Natarajan|first1=Nalini|last2=Nelson|first2=Emmanuel Sampath|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313287787|language=en}}</ref> His play ''chintamani'' mainly depicted how Chintamani though born in a family of professional harlots, with her conscious devotion to Lord Krishna attained liberation. It also brought out the hazards of the practice of harlotry.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/Drama-well-enacted/article16576936.ece|title=Drama well enacted|last=S|first=A. R.|date=2010-03-19|work=The Hindu|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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His play "Padmavyuham"(Army configuration of the Lotus) used historical and mythological frameworks as allegories for contemporary conditions under British domination.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwPX23VameIC&q=kallakuri+narayana+rao+play&pg=PA239|title=Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media|last1=Downing|first1=John D. H.|last2=Downing|first2=John Derek Hall|date=2011|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761926887|language=en}}</ref><br />
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In his novel "Varavikrayam" about the [[Dowry]] system prevalent in [[British India]]. The film [[Vara Vikrayam (film)|Varavikrayam]] is based on the [[novel]] and [[Play (theatre)|play]] of the same name by him.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8ABAAAQBAJ&q=kallakuri+narayana+rao+play&pg=PA1994-IA368|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|date=2014-07-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135943257|language=en}}</ref><br />
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His mythological verse plays are very popular. He penned these myth-dramas based on the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata, Siva Puranam and other epics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2017-08-24/Mythological-plays-enthral-all/321395|title=Mythological plays enthral all|website=The Hans India|language=en|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref><br />
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