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
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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.