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{{Infobox film
|name = Mallammana Pavaada
|image = MallammanaPavaada1969Kannadafilm.jpg
|caption =
|director = [[Puttanna Kanagal]]
|producer =
|writer = [[B. Puttaswamayya]]
|screenplay = [[P. Pullaiah]]
|based_on = {{Based on|''Ardhaangi''|B. Puttaswamayya}}
|starring = {{ubl|[[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]]|[[B. Saroja Devi|Saroja Devi]]|[[Vajramuni]]}}
|music = [[Vijaya Bhaskar]]
|cinematography = V. Selvaraj
|editing = {{ubl|V. P. Krishnan|R. Shanmugam}}
|released = 1969
|runtime = 130 minutes
|country = India
|language = Kannada
}}

'''Mallammana Pavaada''' (Meaning: The miracle of Mallamma) is a 1969 [[Cinema of Karnataka|Kannada film]], directed by [[Puttanna Kanagal]].

The film is based on the novel ''Ardhaangi'' written by [[B. Puttaswamayya]]. The screenplay was by [[P. Pullaiah]] based on his 1955 Telugu movie with similar story titled ''[[Ardhangi]]'', which itself was based on Maddipatla Suri's Telugu translation of the Bengali novel ''Swayamsidda'', written by Manilal Banerjee. ''Swayamsiddha'' went on to be made into a 1975 Bengali movie of the same name.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/ardhangi-1955/article6086551.ece|last=Narasimham|first=M.L.|title=Ardhangi (1955)|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=6 June 2014|accessdate=24 August 2021}}</ref> ''[[Ardhangi]]'' was remade in Tamil as ''[[Pennin Perumai]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/this-diamond-is-forever/article3216897.ece|title=This diamond is forever|date=20 January 2006|work=The Hindu|accessdate=24 August 2021}}</ref> and in Hindi twice as ''[[Bahurani (1963 film)|Bahurani]]'' in 1963 and as ''[[Jyoti (1981 film)|Jyoti]]'' in 1981. 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 (film)|Beta]]'', in Kannada as ''[[Annayya (1993 film)|Annayya]]'' and in [[Odia language|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 (actor)|Rajkumar]] as Chandrakantha/Chandra
*[[B. Saroja Devi]] as Mallamma
*[[Vajramuni]] as Suryakanth
*[[Balakrishna (Kannada actor)|Balakrishna]] as Rajivi's father
*[[Dwarakish|Dwarakeesh]] as Shivalingi

==Soundtrack==
{|class=wikitable
|-
!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.

{| class=wikitable
|-
!rowspan=2|Year!!rowspan=2|Title!!rowspan=2|Language!!rowspan=2|Director!!colspan=3|Cast
|-
!Step-mother!!Son!!Wife
|-
|1955||''[[Ardhangi]]''||[[Telugu language|Telugu]]||[[P. Pullaiah]]||[[Santha Kumari]]||[[Akkineni Nageswara Rao]]||[[Savitri (actress)|Savitri]]
|-
|1956||''[[Pennin Perumai]]''||[[Tamil language|Tamil]]||P. Pullaiah||Santha Kumari||Gemini Ganesan||Savitri
|-
|1963||''[[Bahurani (1963 film)|Bahurani]]''||[[Hindi language|Hindi]]||T. Prakash Rao||[[Lalita Pawar]]||[[Guru Dutt]]||[[Mala Sinha]]
|-
|1969||''Mallammana Pavaada''||[[Kannada language|Kannada]]||[[Puttanna Kanagal]]||[[Advani Lakshmi Devi]]||[[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]]||[[B Sarojadevi]]
|-
|1975||''Swayamsiddha''||[[Bengali language|Bengali]]||Sushil Mukherjee||||[[Ranjit Mallick]]||Mithu Mukherjee
|-
|1981||''[[Jyothi (1981 film)|Jyothi]]''||Hindi||[[Pramod Chakravorty]]||[[Shashikala]]||[[Jeetendra]]||[[Hema Malini]]
|-
|1987||''[[Enga Chinna Rasa]]''||Tamil||[[K. Bhagyaraj]]||C. R. Saraswathy||[[K. Bhagyaraj]]||[[Radha]]
|-
|1992||''[[Beta (film)|Beta]]''||Hindi||[[Indra Kumar]]||[[Aruna Irani]]||[[Anil Kapoor]]||[[Madhuri Dixit]]
|-
|1993||''[[Abbaigaru]]''||Telugu||[[E. V. V. Satyanarayana]]||[[Jayachitra]]||[[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]]||[[Meena (actress)|Meena]]
|-
| 1993||''[[Annayya (1993 Kannada film)|Annayya]]''||Kannada||[[D. Rajendra Babu]]||[[Aruna Irani]]||[[V. Ravichandran]]||[[Madhoo]]
|-
|1998||''Santan''||[[Odia language|Oriya]]||||Snigdha Mohanty||[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]||[[Rachana Banerjee]]
|}

==See also==
*[[Rajkumar (actor)|Rajkumar]]
*[[B. Saroja Devi]]
*[[Vajramuni]]
*[[Cinema of Karnataka]]
{{Puttanna Kanagal}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1960s Kannada-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Puttanna Kanagal]]
[[Category:Kannada films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films scored by Vijaya Bhaskar]]
[[Category:Kannada literature]]

Mallammana Pavaada - Revision history

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