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Rang De

2021 film directed by Venky Atluri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ96401222
Source-derived summary

Rang De (transl. Colour it) is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language romantic action comedy film film written and directed by Venky Atluri and produced by Suryadevara Naga Vamsi, under Sithara Entertainments. The film starred Nithiin and Keerthy Suresh. The film's music is composed by Devi Sri Prasad while cinematography and editing are performed by P. C. Sreeram and Naveen Nooli respectively. The film was theatrically released on 26 March 2021 and the film received positive reviews from critics but it was commercial failure at box office citing COVID-19 Pandemic. The film's title is based on a song from Nithin's A Aa (2016).

Plot

Arjun is a young man who enjoys attention from his parents and everyone in the neighbourhood. As the colony he lives doesn't have kids of his age, he wishes to have a girlfriend, where Anupama's "Anu" family moves in. Arjun's family members grow fond of Anu, which sows the seed of jealousy in Arjun. With time, It develops into hatred, but Anu has developed feelings for Arjun. Arjun is poor in academics and is always compared to Anu who is a bright student, which irritates him.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rang De” as 2021 film directed by Venky Atluri. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Rang, film and directed can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 film directed by Venky Atluri. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96401222. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Rang De” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.