Mallammana Pavaada (Meaning: The miracle of Mallamma) is a 1969 Kannada film, directed by Puttanna Kanagal. This was the debut movie of actor Vajramuni. This was Puttana's first collaboration with Dr. Rajkumar as independent director.

Mallammana Pavaada
Directed byPuttanna Kanagal
Written byB. Puttaswamayya
Screenplay byP. Pullaiah
Based onArdhaangi
by B. Puttaswamayya
Starring
CinematographyV. Selvaraj
Edited by
  • V. P. Krishnan
  • R. Shanmugam
Music byVijaya Bhaskar
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageKannada

The film is based on B. Puttaswamayya's Kannada novel Ardhangi which was a translation of Manilal Bannerjee's Bengali novel Swayamsidda.[1] The screenplay was written by P. Pullaiah based on his 1955 Telugu movie with similar story titled Ardhangi which was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel Swayamsidda by Manilal Banerjee. Swayamsiddha novel was also adapted in Bengali in 1975 with the same title and in Hindi in 1981 as Jyoti.[2] Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai [3] and in Hindi as Bahurani (1963). 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

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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

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Soundtrack

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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

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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

References

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  1. ^ "ಕೆ. ಎಸ್. ಎಲ್.ಸ್ವಾಮಿ | ನಟಸಾರ್ವಭೌಮನಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ | Part - 1 | KSL Swamy | Dr. Rajkumar | Jayanth Kaikini - YouTube". YouTube.
  2. ^ Narasimham, M.L. (6 June 2014). "Ardhangi (1955)". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  3. ^ "This diamond is forever". The Hindu. 20 January 2006. Archived from the original on 23 November 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

See also

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