Aarathi

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Aarathi

Aarathi (Kannada: ಆರತಿ ; born 1954)[1] is an Indian actress turned director who works predominantly in Kannada language films. She is best known for her acting prowess in many author backed female centric roles during the 1970s and 1980s. After her self-declared retirement from films in the late 1980s, she returned as director with Mithayi Mane (2005) which met with critical appreciation and also …

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Gejje PoojeGejje Pooje · 1969
Gejje Pooje
8.01969
Movie
A young girl is brought up in poverty but understands the value of education, and with the support of her mother struggles to reject a life of prostitution.
UpasaneUpasane · 1974
Upasane
8.01974
MovieDramaMusic
Shraddha is a music enthusiast. She is determined to pursue a career in classical music but faces several obstacles.
Katha SangamaKatha Sangama · 1976
Katha Sangama
8.01976
MovieDrama
An anthology of short stories centred on a poor university teacher's dilemma, an old woman's life story and a man who is about to marry a woman who is visually impaired.
Thirugu BaanaThirugu Baana · 1983
Thirugu Baana
1983
MovieThrillerMystery
When a man helps out a stabbed victim, his family gets targeted by the unknown assailant. Thereafter, the man tries to find the mysterious murderer with a police officer's help.
Gedda MagaGedda Maga · 1983
Gedda Maga
10.01983
MovieActionDrama
Basappa, a notorious gangster, kills an incorruptible police officer, Alex Muthanna. His sons, Arun and John, try to avenge their father's death.
HombisiluHombisilu · 1978
Hombisilu
7.01978
MovieRomanceDrama
Dr Roopa and Dr Nataraj get married and being both egoistic, and little arrogant, differences come up in their personal and Professional life where they run a Nursing home. Roopa suspects her husband of having an affair with another Doctor Vasanthi...Suspicions and neglect and duty conflict with each other and will their wedding stand this acid test?
Maagiya KanasuMaagiya Kanasu · 1977
Maagiya Kanasu
1977
MovieFamilyDrama
Maagiya Kanasu is a 1977 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by K. S. L. Swamy and produced by K. A. Gopal and Lakshman. It is based on a novel by K. Saroja Rao.
Pooja PhalaPooja Phala · 1984
Pooja Phala
1984
MovieDramaRomance
Rajanna and his brother, Vicky, vow to avenge the murder of their mother at the hands of their cruel and greedy uncle, Rangappa.

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Tulasi DalamTulasi Dalam · 1985
Tulasi Dalam
1985
MovieHorror
Tulasi Dalam (Telugu: తులసిదళం, English : Basil Leaf) is a Telugu thriller novel written by Yandamuri Veerendranath. It was published in Andhra Bhoomi weekly in 1980 as a serial and got tremendous popularity. It was republished many times as a paperback and sold approximately 50,000 copies. It was one of the initial novels of Yandamuri that became popular and he was appreciated widely for his narrating style. It was partially inspired by the 1971 bestselling novel The Exorcist. Tulasi Dalam was first adapted into a 1985 Kannada movie titled Thulasidala and later in Telugu as Tulasidalam (1989),in Hindi as Phoonk (2008) and its remake in Telugu as Raksha (2008).In 1986, a story based on this novel called Kashmora was filmed for which Yendamuri Verendranath has worked as writer.

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RanganayakiRanganayaki · 1981
Ranganayaki
8.01981
MovieDrama
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, but as a mother. She always gives him affection and loves like a mother. 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.

Ranganayaki/Mala