🎬 Drama

Ranganayaki

"Based on the novel by Ashwattha"

⭐ 8.0/10 1981 2h 57m Dir. S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

About this movie

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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Quick facts

Year
1981
Runtime
2h 57m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 8.0/10
Votes
2
Genre
Drama
Language
KN

Cast

🎭 Drama 🎬 S.R. Puttanna Kanagal 👤 Aarathi 👤 Ramakrishna 👤 Ashok
stage actress

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Ranganayaki has a runtime of 2h 57m (2 hours and 57 minutes).
Ranganayaki was directed by S.R. Puttanna Kanagal and released in 1981.
Ranganayaki is a Drama film (1981).
The cast of Ranganayaki includes Aarathi, Ramakrishna, Ashok, Musuri Krishnamurthy, Ambareesh.
Ranganayaki has a TMDB rating of 8.0/10 based on 2 votes.

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