Mallammana Pavaada Explained

Mallammana Pavaada
Director:Puttanna Kanagal
Screenplay:P. Pullaiah
Music:Vijaya Bhaskar
Cinematography:V. Selvaraj
Runtime: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.[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

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.

Soundtrack

S. NoSong Title Singers
1Naanoonu Nim HaageP. B. Sreenivas
2Sharanembe NaaP. Susheela
3Haadona OlavinaP. B. Sreenivas, P. Susheela
4Huchcharalla NeevuP. Susheela
5Mareyada MaathaduB. K. Sumitra
6Ee Roopa RashiL. R. Eswari

Other versions

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

YearTitleLanguageDirectorCast
Step-motherSonWife
1955ArdhangiTeluguP. PullaiahSantha KumariAkkineni Nageswara Rao
1956Pennin PerumaiTamilP. PullaiahSantha KumariGemini GanesanSavitri
1963BahuraniHindiT. Prakash RaoLalita PawarGuru Dutt
1969Mallammana PavaadaKannadaPuttanna KanagalAdvani Lakshmi DeviRajkumar
1975SwayamsiddhaBengaliSushil MukherjeeRanjit MallickMithu Mukherjee
1981JyothiHindiPramod ChakravortyShashikalaJeetendraHema Malini
1987Enga Chinna RasaTamilK. BhagyarajC. R. SaraswathyK. BhagyarajRadha
1992BetaHindiIndra KumarAruna IraniAnil KapoorMadhuri Dixit
1993AbbaigaruTeluguE. V. V. SatyanarayanaJayachitraVenkateshMeena
1993AnnayyaKannadaD. Rajendra BabuAruna IraniV. Ravichandran
1998SantanOriyaSnigdha MohantySiddhanta MahapatraRachana Banerjee

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ಕೆ. ಎಸ್. ಎಲ್.ಸ್ವಾಮಿ | ನಟಸಾರ್ವಭೌಮನಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ | Part - 1 | KSL Swamy | Dr. Rajkumar | Jayanth Kaikini - YouTube . .
  2. News: Ardhangi (1955). Narasimham. M.L.. The Hindu. 6 June 2014. 24 August 2021. https://archive.today/20210815122553/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/ardhangi-1955/article6086551.ece. 15 August 2021.
  3. News: This diamond is forever. 20 January 2006. The Hindu. 24 August 2021. https://archive.today/20141123192402/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/this-diamond-is-forever/article3216897.ece. 23 November 2014.