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Puttanna Kanagal is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 12 january 1933

Puttanna Kanagal

Puttanna Kanagal
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Nationality Inde
Birth 12 january 1933
Death 6 may 1985 (at 52 years) at Bangalore (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Puttanna Kanagal (1 December 1933–5 June 1985) was one of the prominent Kannada film directors of the 1960s and the 1970s. Although the majority of his films were on offbeat or taboo subjects, he endeared himself to both the critics and ordinary film goers alike. He also directed a handful of films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He received three National Film Awards, three Southern Filmfare Awards and numerous Karnataka State Film Awards.

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Vijaya Bhaskar
Vijaya Bhaskar
(15 films)
Aarathi
Aarathi
(10 films)
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
(6 films)
K. S. Ashwath
K. S. Ashwath
(7 films)
Shivaram
Shivaram
(7 films)
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Filmography of Puttanna Kanagal (31 films)

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Amrutha Ghalige
Amrutha Ghalige (1984)
, 2h19
Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Actors Ramakrishna, Shridhar, Umashree
Rating79% 3.97763.97763.97763.97763.9776
This movie deals with the cause and consequences of teenage pregnancy. The heroine (Padmavasanthi), hailing from a poor background, falls in love with an affluent young man (Ramakrishna). The young man impregnates her and leaves her in the lurch. The heroine's classmate (Sridhar) comes forward to marry her and give an identity to the child. Unfortunately, the classmate dies due to illness soon after. The young man comes back and unexpectedly meets his son. The classmate writes a letter that he had considered the heroine as his sister, and she was as pure as river Ganges. Finally the young man accepts the heroine. This movie has very good songs and great lyrics.
Manasa Sarovara
Manasa Sarovara (1982)
, 2h20
Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Genres Drama
Actors Srinath, Ramakrishna, Jai Jagadish
Rating82% 4.128924.128924.128924.128924.12892
A middle aged psychiatrist finds a young insane woman wandering aimlessly along the streets. He takes her to his abode for treatment. Slowly the woman recovers from her trauma. The doctor promptly falls in love with her and decides to marry her. In the meantime, the doctor's nephew arrives and falls head over heels for her. The doctor cannot tolerate this intimacy and goes insane.
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.
Dharmasere
Dharmasere (1979)
, 2h8
Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Genres Drama
Actors Aarathi, Srinath, Sathyapriya, Jai Jagadish, Musuri Krishnamurthy, Shivaram
Rating65% 3.2747553.2747553.2747553.2747553.274755
This movie explores the plight of a dumb young woman (Aarathi). Srinath the hero falls in love with Aarathi's younger sister. But the father of the girls is in the Dharmasere (the religious bind) that he can't get his younger daughter married even as the elder daughter is unmarried. So he requests Srinath to marry both of them even if it is a symbolic marriage to the elder dumb girl. As fate would have it, the younger one fails to beget offspring. Desperate for an offspring, Srinath turns to Aarathi and she promptly begets a child. This movie is a poignant portrayal of young dumb women of that era, the scorn, humiliation and neglect they faced from the society.
Bili Hendthi
Bili Hendthi (1975)

Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Actors Aarathi, Leelavathi, Loknath
Rating65% 3.252853.252853.252853.252853.25285
Arathi is affianced to a guy who is visiting the United States. Being thus a de facto daughter-in-law, she assumes the role and practically lives with her in-laws. However when her fiance returns, she finds out that he has married Alicia, a "white woman", and is no longer interested in her. The rest of the story mostly revolves around how Alicia wins over all and sundry with her agreeable character and willingness to meld and melt into Indian society. Arathi assumes a larger-than-life good samaritan character, which is presumably the very antithesis of a jilted lover.
Shubhamangala
Shubhamangala (1975)
, 2h41
Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Genres Drama
Actors Srinath, Aarathi, Shivaram, Loknath, B.V. Radha, B. V. Radha
Rating82% 4.14224.14224.14224.14224.1422
Hema is a pampered girl brought up in a small town by her father. Timma and Mooga are her servants, but she treats them just like her friends. Hema is playful and acts like a kid in all matters even though she has reached marriageable age. She meets Prabhakara, her cousin who is visiting her village after many years. Hema's father doesn't like Hema mingling with Prabhakar and tells her about a family fight he had with Prabhakara's father years ago. Hema begins to hate Prabhakara from then on. After her father passes away, Hema & her servants are forced to live with Prabhakara. The story is about the growth of Hema from a pampered girl into a self-reliant woman who earns a living, not wanting to depend on others.