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Ranganayaki (film)

Ranganayaki
ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ
Ranganayaki poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Produced by B. Thimmanna
Written by Ashwattha
Screenplay by Puttanna Kanagal
Yoganarasimhamurthy
Based on Ranganayaki
by Ashwattha
Starring Aarathi
Ambarish
Ramakrishna
Ashok
Rajanand
Music by M. Ranga Rao
Cinematography S. Maruthi Rao
Edited by V. P. Krishna
Distributed by Sri Ashok Arts
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Country India
Language Kannada

Ranganayaki (Kannada: ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ, The Heroine of the Stage) is a 1981 Kannada film directed by Puttanna Kanagal starring Aarathi, Ambarish, Ramakrishna, Ashok, Rajanand. The film is an based on the novel Ranganayaki 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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