Ranganayaki (1981)
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
Writer:
S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
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Aarathi as Ranganayaki/Mala |
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Ramakrishna as Shekhar |
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Ashok as Nagaraj Shetty |
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Musuri Krishnamurthy as |
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Ambareesh as Ramanna |
| Directing | S.R. Puttanna Kanagal | Director |
| Writing | S.R. Puttanna Kanagal | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ashwattha | Story |
| Writing | Yoganarasimhamurthy | Dialogue |
| Sound | M. Ranga Rao | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | S. Maruti Rao | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Kanagal Prabhakar Shastry | Lyricist |
| Writing | Vijayanarasimha | Lyricist |
| Writing | Doddarange Gowda | Lyricist |
| Writing | M N Vyasa Rao | Lyricist |
| Production | B Thimmanna | Producer |
