How Telugu cinema has been distorting the history of Telanga

Telugu cinema presents a simplistic Hindu-Muslim binary while depicting the Telangana rebellion. When caste is foregrounded, what is often coloured as communal violence may take on a new identity, writes C Yamini Krishna.

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