Ardhangi

Ardhangi
Directed by	P. Pullaiah
Produced by	P. Pullaiah
Written by	Acharya Atreya
Starring	Savitri Akkineni Nageswara Rao Santha Kumari Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Kongara Jaggayya
Music by	B. Narasimha Rao M. Venu
Cinematography	Madhav Bulbule
Release date	1955
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Ardhangi or Ardhaangi (Swayamsiddha Katha) (Telugu: అర్ధాంగి) is a 1955 Telugu film.

It is based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of Bengali novel Swayamsidda written by Manilal Banerjee. The film was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai and in Hindi twice as Bahurani in 1963 and as Jyoti in 1981.The Bengali novel Swayamsiddha was remade into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name. The story of Swayamsiddha was also similar to the Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada by B. Puttaswamayya which was adapted into 1969 movie titled Mallammana Pavaada for which screenplay was written by the director of this movie P. Pullaiah based on this movie. The Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada also inspired the 1987 Tamil movie Enga Chinna Rasa which went on to be remade in Telugu as Abbaigaru , in Hindi as Beta , in Kannada as Annayya and in Oriya as Santan (1998).

The film has received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu and the Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu.

Padma (Savitri) is forced to marry a mentally retarded man Raghu (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) whom she eventually nurses back to health while teaching a lesson to her scheming mother-in-law (Santha Kumari) and brother-in-law Nagendra Rao (Kongara Jaggayya).

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