Ranganayaki - 1981 DD 5.1 DVD $7.99

Movie : Ranga Nayaki (The Heroine of the Stage)
Year : 1981
Banner : Sri Ashok Arts
Cast : Aarathi, Ashok, Ambarish, Rajanand, Ramakrishna, Chayapathi, Anand Darwad, Shrungar Nagaraj, Deshmuk Manohar
Music : M Ranga Rao
Lyrics : Kanagal Prabhakar Shastry, Vijayanarasimha, Doddarange Gowda, M N Vyasa Rao
Story : Ashwattha (Based on Novel ‘Ranganayaki’)
Direction : S R Puttanna Kanagal
Producer : B Thimmanna
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 164 mins

DVD Features:

• Anamorphic Widescreen Enhanced DVD
• English Subtitles
• Enhanced Digital 5.1 Surround
• DVD 5
• NTSC - All Regions
• Interactive Menus of Songs & Scenes for Easy Access

Awards

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

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. 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.