Ranganayaki

Ranganayaki

8.0IMDb Score
Released:1981-02-06
Genre:Drama
Duration:177 min
Country:India
Director:S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
Actors:Aarathi, Ramakrishna, Ashok, Musuri Krishnamurthy, Ambareesh
Production:Sri Ashok Arts
Keywords:stage actress

Overview:

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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