Ranganayaki
8.2
“Based on the novel by Ashwattha”
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.
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Cast
18 people
Aarathi
Ranganayaki/Mala
Also in
Naagarahaavu
Shubhamangala
Ramakrishna
Shekhar
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Paduvaaralli Pandavaru
Manasa Sarovara
Arathi
Actress
S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
Also in
Dharani Mandala Madhyadolage
M. Ranga Rao
Ashok
Nagaraj Shetty
Also in
Thirupathi Express
Kempe Gowda
S. Maruti Rao
Yoganarasimha
Musuri Krishnamurthy
Also in
Kaviratna Kalidasa
Antha
Ambarish
Yoganarasimhamurthy
Ambareesh
Ramanna
Also in
Paduvaaralli Pandavaru
Katari Veera Surasundarangi
S.R. Puttanna Kanagal Director · Ashwattha Story M. Ranga Rao Composer
First release February 6, 1981 · Produced in India · Original title ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ
Production
Sri Ashok Arts
Production
India
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Languages
Original title
ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ
Original language
Kannada
Spoken on screen
Kannada
Release dates
India · February 6, 1981
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No release date listed for United States.
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