Ranganayaki

Ranganayaki

Movie |

Stage Actress

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • Director(s): Puttanna Kanagal
  • Cast(s): Aarathi , Ramakrishna , Ashok , Sudharani , Musari Krishnamurthy See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h 42min
  • Music: Kanagal Prabhakar Sastry,Ranga Rao L M, Vijayanarasimha
  • Award(s): Filmfare - Kannada Film Industry 1982 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Landlord, Shodha
  • Story:

    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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STORY

Story

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.

AWARDS

Won
Filmfare - Kannada Film Industry Award

Best Actress | 1982

Best Director | 1982

Best Film | 1982

TRIVIA

Trivia

Arathi fell in love with her costar Ashok during the filming of Ranganayaki and separated from director Puttanna Kangal, with whom she had been in a 10-year relationship.

Ramakrishna who plays Arathi's son in the movie is the same age as her.

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