Mallammana Pavaada

Mallammana Pavaada (pronunciation^ⓘ transl. 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 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

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 Ardhangi 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