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Cast

Aarathi

Aarathi

Ranganayaki/Mala

Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna

Shekhar

Ashok

Ashok

Nagaraj Shetty

Musuri Krishnamurthy

Musuri Krishnamurthy

Ambareesh

Ambareesh

Ramanna

Crew

S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

Director

Ashwattha

Ashwattha

Story

S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

S.R. Puttanna Kanagal

Screenplay

Yoganarasimhamurthy

Yoganarasimhamurthy

Dialogue

M. Ranga Rao

M. Ranga Rao

Original Music Composer

S. Maruti Rao

S. Maruti Rao

Director of Photography

Kanagal Prabhakar Shastry

Kanagal Prabhakar Shastry

Lyricist

Vijayanarasimha

Vijayanarasimha

Lyricist

Doddarange Gowda

Doddarange Gowda

Lyricist

M N Vyasa Rao

M N Vyasa Rao

Lyricist

B Thimmanna

B Thimmanna

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Ranganayaki

19817.0 / 10177 min
Drama

Overview

Based on the novel 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.