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Ranganayaki

1981·Directed by S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

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Released
February 6, 1981
Runtime
2h 57m

About Ranganayaki

  • Drama

Synopsis

The movie explores the nuance of Oedipus Complex. The heroine, a popular theatre artist, falls in love with a rich, young man. They eventually get married and beget a child. But the heroine is bored of married life and wants to dabble in acting. The husband refuses and leaves the town with his child. The heroine gets a lucky break in cinema and becomes a household name. Years later, as fate had it, a young man falls in love with the heroine and she reciprocates his love, but as a mother. She always gives him affection and loves like a mother. She encounters her ex-husband and pleads him to show her son just for once. But as fate has it doesn t happen, and she goes in deep depression and commits suicide, too late for the young lover who realizes that he had fallen in love with his own mother.

Director
  • S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
Writers
  • AAshwattha
  • S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
  • YYoganarasimhamurthy
  • KPKanagal Prabhakar Shastry
  • VVijayanarasimha
  • DGDoddarange Gowda
Original title
ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ

Principal cast

In billing order
  • AarathiRanganayaki/Mala
  • RamakrishnaShekhar
  • AshokNagaraj Shetty
  • Musuri Krishnamurthy
  • AmbareeshRamanna
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