Mallammana Pavada

Mallammana Pavaada
Directed by	Puttanna Kanagal
Written by	B. Puttaswamayya
Screenplay by	P. Pullaiah
Based on	Mallammana Pavada by B. Puttaswamayya
Starring	Rajkumar Saroja Devi Vajramuni
Music by	Vijaya Bhaskar
Cinematography	V. Selvaraj
Edited by	V. P. Krishnan R. Shanmugam
Release date	1969
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Mallammana Pavaada (Kannada: ಮಲ್ಲಮ್ಮನ ಪವಾಡ) is a 1969 Kannada film directed by Puttanna Kanagal.

The film is based on the novel Mallammana Pavaada written by B. Puttaswamayya.The screenplay was by Telugu director P. Pullaiah based on his 1955 Telugu movie with similar story titled Ardhangi which itself was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of Bengali novel Swayamsidda written by Manilal Banerjee.Swayamsiddha went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of same name.Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai and in Hindi twice as Bahurani in 1963 and as Jyoti in 1981. 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 female lead the film, Mallamma (Saroja Devi) is married to a dullard by her parents. While in her in-laws house, Mallamma realises that her husband has been made a dullard due to his scheming stepmother, who wants to appropriate the vast property. She educates her husband and frees him from the clutches of his stepmother and makes him realise the value of life.

The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.

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