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Mallammana Pavaada
Directed by	Puttanna Kanagal
Written by	B. Puttaswamayya
Screenplay by	P. Pullaiah
Based on	Ardhaangi by B. Puttaswamayya
Starring	Rajkumar Saroja Devi Vajramuni
Cinematography	V. Selvaraj
Edited by	V. P. Krishnan R. Shanmugam
Music by	Vijaya Bhaskar
Release date	1969 (1969)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	India
Language	Kannada

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.

The film is based on B. Puttaswamayya's Kannada novel Ardhangi which was a translation of Manilal Bannerjee's Bengali novel Swayamsidda. 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. Ardhangi was remade in Tamil as Pennin Perumai 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

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

Other versions

The story line has been inspiration for various movies and has had various remakes in Indian film industry.

References

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

• Rajkumar
• B. Saroja Devi
• Vajramuni
• Cinema of Karnataka

• 1969 films
• 1960s Kannada-language films
• Films directed by Puttanna Kanagal
• Kannada films remade in other languages
• Films scored by Vijaya Bhaskar
• Kannada literature