Ranganayaki (film)

Ranganayaki ರಂಗನಾಯಕಿ
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 dates	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.^[1]

Plot

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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Cast

• Aarathi as Ranganayaki, Mala
• Ambarish as Ramanna
• Ramakrishna as Shekhar
• Ashok as Nagaraja shetty
• Rajanand as Shamanna
• Sudha Rani as childhood Ranganayaki

Soundtrack

Awards

• Karnataka State Film Awards 1980-81
  • First Best film
  • Best Actress - Aarathi
  • Best Supporting Actor - Ramakrishna

References

External links

• Ranganayaki at the Internet Movie Database