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M. Ranga Rao is a Sound Indian born on 1932

M. Ranga Rao

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Nationality Inde
Birth 1932
Death 1991 (at 59 years)

M. Ranga Rao (1932–1991) was a prominent Indian Music director who predominantly worked in Kannada films. He was known for his mellifluous scores and lilting tunes backed with strong classical nuances.

Biography

Early life
Ranga Rao was born in a small village in Andhra Pradesh on October 15, 1932. He learnt the art of playing Veena instrument at a very young age. His inspiration was his mother, Rangamma. He graduated in Diploma in Mechanical Engineering stream.


Career
Rao entered the film industry as a small time actor in the films Swarga Seema (1945) and Yogi Vemana (1947). He worked as a veena player in the 1946 released film Tyagayya.
However, he entered the Kannada film industry as a full fledged composer from the film Nakkare Ade Swarga in 1967. This also marked the beginning of the legendary playback singer S. P. Balasubramanyam, who went on to rule the playback industry for many more decades. Ranga Rao introduced (his relative) Balasubramanyam to Kannada films by offering him a duet song alongside the veteran singer P. Susheela.


Death
Ranga Rao died of cancer in 1991.

Usually with

Rajkumar
Rajkumar
(11 films)
K. S. Ashwath
K. S. Ashwath
(9 films)
Puttanna Kanagal
Puttanna Kanagal
(4 films)
Leelavathi
Leelavathi
(6 films)
T. N. Balakrishna
T. N. Balakrishna
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of M. Ranga Rao (24 films)

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Sound

Jwaalamukhi
Jwaalamukhi (1985)
, 2h30
Directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Actors Rajkumar, Mukhyamantri Chandru, K. S. Ashwath, Thoogudeepa Srinivas
Rating78% 3.924493.924493.924493.924493.92449
Entire story revolves around the heroics of role 'Jayasimha' played by Rajkumar.
Bandhana
Bandhana (1984)
, 2h33
Directed by S.V. Rajendra Singh Babu
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vishnuvardhan, Suhasini Maniratnam, K. S. Ashwath, Jai Jagadish, Manchu Vishnu, Musuri Krishnamurthy
Rating79% 3.988173.988173.988173.988173.98817
The story is about a doctor, Harish (Vishnuvardhan), who falls in love with his student Nandini (Suhasini). Harish tries to express his feelings to her but fails to do so. When he finally musters courage to tell her that he loves her, she tells him that her marriage is fixed to a character played by (Balu) Jai Jagadish, her childhood friend and sees the former like a guru. Harish, unable to forget her and slowly withdraws into a shell. His mother tries to get him out of this shell but dies from burns. Meanwhile, Jai Jagadeesh starts suspecting his wife because she gives importance to hospital and not him and starts misbehaving with her at home. Nandini discovers that Harish has heart enlargement and may not survive for long. Since he has no family, she starts taking more care of him in the hospital. This frustrates her husband even more and he misunderstands Harish and fights with him in the hospital. Nandini goes to her residence to explain to her husband but discovers that her husband has abused a lady who was staying in their house (maid). She decides to leave him but Harish tries to convince her husband that his relationship with Nandini is pure and that he has misunderstood them. Jai Jagadeesh misbehaves with him again leaving his wife hurt while trying to make sense with her husband. Finally, Harish saves Nandini's baby but dies. Nandini divorces her husband and moves on with her just born child.
Kaviratna Kalidasa
Kaviratna Kalidasa (1983)

Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about writers
Actors Rajkumar, T. N. Balakrishna, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Srinivasa Murthy, Nalini, Thoogudeepa Srinivas
Rating85% 4.260184.260184.260184.260184.26018
The kingdom's chief minister wants his son to marry the king's daughter, Princess Vidyadhare. When he expresses his wish to the king, he is ridiculed. Instead, the king orders him to search for a "Sakala Vidya Paarangatha" groom for his daughter. Vowing to take revenge against the insult, the minister goes in search of a foolish groom.
Ranganayaki
Ranganayaki (1981)

Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Genres Drama
Actors Aarathi, Ramakrishna, Ashok, Sudha Rani
Rating80% 4.0334454.0334454.0334454.0334454.033445
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.