Ranganayaki
Based on the novel by Ashwattha
- S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
- 2h 57m
- February 6, 1981 · India
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 6, 1981
- Original language
- Kannada
- Spoken languages
- Kannada
- Countries
- India
- Production
- Sri Ashok Arts
- Director
- S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
- Writer
- Kanagal Prabhakar Shastry,M N Vyasa Rao,Ashwattha,Doddarange Gowda,Vijayanarasimha,S.R. Puttanna Kanagal,Yoganarasimhamurthy
- Producer
- B Thimmanna
- Cinematography
- S. Maruti Rao
- Music
- M. Ranga Rao
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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