Ranganayaki

Ranganayaki

1981
2h 57m
8.0

8.0/10

2 votes • View on IMDb

"Based on the novel by Ashwattha"

Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: KN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Sri Ashok Arts
Production Countries
India
Spoken Languages
Kannada

Quick Facts

Original Title ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ
Release Date February 6, 1981
Status Released
Language KN
IMDb ID tt0232515

Cast

Aarathi
Aarathi

Ranganayaki/Mala

Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna

Shekhar

Ashok
Ashok

Nagaraj Shetty

Musuri Krishnamurthy
Musuri Krishnamurthy

Ambareesh
Ambareesh

Ramanna

Key Crew

S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
Director
S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
Screenplay
B Thimmanna
Producer