Mallammana Pavaada
Mallammana Pavaada (Meaning: The miracle of Mallamma) is a 1969 Kannada film, directed by Puttanna Kanagal.
| Mallammana Pavaada | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Puttanna Kanagal |
| Written by | B. Puttaswamayya |
| Screenplay by | P. Pullaiah |
| Based on | Ardhaangi by B. Puttaswamayya |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | V. Selvaraj |
| Edited by |
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| Music by | Vijaya Bhaskar |
Release date | 1969 |
Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
The film is based on the novel Ardhaangi written by B. Puttaswamayya.[1] The screenplay was by P. Pullaiah based on his 1955 Telugu movie with similar story titled Ardhangi, which itself was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel Swayamsidda, written by Manilal Banerjee. Swayamsiddha went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of the same name.[2] Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai [3] and in Hindi twice as Bahurani in 1963 and as Jyoti in 1981. The Kannada novel Mallammana Pavaada also inspired the 1987 Tamil movie Enga Chinna Rasa, which went on to be remade in Telugu as Abbaigaru, in Hindi as Beta, in Kannada as Annayya and in Odia as Santana (1998).
Plot
The female lead of the film, Mallamma is married to a dullard by her parents. While at her in-laws house, Mallamma realises that her husband has been made a dullard by his scheming stepmother, who wants to appropriate the vast property. She educates her husband and frees him from the clutches of his stepmother and makes him realise the value of life.
Cast
- Rajkumar as Chandrakantha "Chandra"
- B. Saroja Devi as Mallamma
- Sampath as landlord
- T. N. Balakrishna as Rajivi's father
- H. R. Shastry as Chandrashekhara
- Anantharam Maccheri
- Dwarakish as Shivalingi
- Udaya Chandrika as Rajivi
- Advani Lakshmi Devi as Meenakshi
- R. T. Rama
- Shanthamma as Thayamma
- Vajramuni as Suryakanth
Soundtrack
| S. No | Song Title | Singers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naanoonu Nim Haage | P. B. Sreenivas |
| 2 | Sharanembe Naa | P. Susheela |
| 3 | Haadona Olavina | P. B. Sreenivas, P. Susheela |
| 4 | Huchcharalla Neevu | P. Susheela |
| 5 | Mareyada Maathadu | B. K. Sumitra |
| 6 | Ee Roopa Rashi | L. R. Eswari |
Other versions
The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.
| Year | Title | Language | Director | Cast | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step-mother | Son | Wife | ||||
| 1955 | Ardhangi | Telugu | P. Pullaiah | Santha Kumari | Akkineni Nageswara Rao | Savitri |
| 1956 | Pennin Perumai | Tamil | P. Pullaiah | Santha Kumari | Gemini Ganesan | Savitri |
| 1963 | Bahurani | Hindi | T. Prakash Rao | Lalita Pawar | Guru Dutt | Mala Sinha |
| 1969 | Mallammana Pavaada | Kannada | Puttanna Kanagal | Advani Lakshmi Devi | Rajkumar | B Sarojadevi |
| 1975 | Swayamsiddha | Bengali | Sushil Mukherjee | Ranjit Mallick | Mithu Mukherjee | |
| 1981 | Jyothi | Hindi | Pramod Chakravorty | Shashikala | Jeetendra | Hema Malini |
| 1987 | Enga Chinna Rasa | Tamil | K. Bhagyaraj | C. R. Saraswathy | K. Bhagyaraj | Radha |
| 1992 | Beta | Hindi | Indra Kumar | Aruna Irani | Anil Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit |
| 1993 | Abbaigaru | Telugu | E. V. V. Satyanarayana | Jayachitra | Venkatesh | Meena |
| 1993 | Annayya | Kannada | D. Rajendra Babu | Aruna Irani | V. Ravichandran | Madhoo |
| 1998 | Santan | Oriya | Snigdha Mohanty | Siddhanta Mahapatra | Rachana Banerjee | |