
Acting
Aarathi
Aragal, Arkalgud, Hassan, Karnataka, India
Aarathi (Kannada: ಆರತಿ ; born 1954)[1] is an Indian actress turned director who works predominantly in Kannada language films. She is best known for her acting prowess in many author backed female centric roles during the 1970s and 1980s. After her self-declared retirement from films in the late 1980s, she returned as director with Mithayi Mane (2005) which met with critical appreciation and also won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children's Film. As a lead actress in more than 125 feature films, Aarathi was considered to be among the top league of actresses of her time, having won the Filmfare awards and the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress four times each. She was also nominated as the Member of Legislative Council at the Vidhana parishad making her only the second actress after B. Jayamma.
Acting credits
8.0Shraddha is a music enthusiast. She is determined to pursue a career in classical music but faces several obstacles.
Upasane
1974
8.0A young girl is brought up in poverty but understands the value of education, and with the support of her mother struggles to reject a life of prostitution.
Gejje Pooje
1969
8.0An anthology of short stories centred on a poor university teacher's dilemma, an old woman's life story and a man who is about to marry a woman who is visually impaired.
Katha Sangama
1976
10.0Basappa, a notorious gangster, kills an incorruptible police officer, Alex Muthanna. His sons, Arun and John, try to avenge their father's death.
Gedda Maga
1983
NRWhen a man helps out a stabbed victim, his family gets targeted by the unknown assailant. Thereafter, the man tries to find the mysterious murderer with a police officer's help.
Thirugu Baana
1983
NRSharada (Aarathi) is engaged to Gopi (Anil Kumar), who is studying abroad. She shares a close bond with her future in-laws. However, when her fiancé returns, she discovers that he has married Elisa (Margaret Thomsen), a white woman, and is no longer interested in her.
Bili Hendthi
1975
8.3Five men come together to fight against a corrupt landlord to secure justice for the tyranny caused by him in their village.
Paduvaaralli Pandavaru
1978
NRMaagiya Kanasu is a 1977 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by K. S. L. Swamy and produced by K. A. Gopal and Lakshman. It is based on a novel by K. Saroja Rao.
Maagiya Kanasu
1977
NRTulasi Dalam (Telugu: తులసిదళం, English : Basil Leaf) is a Telugu thriller novel written by Yandamuri Veerendranath. It was published in Andhra Bhoomi weekly in 1980 as a serial and got tremendous popularity. It was republished many times as a paperback and sold approximately 50,000 copies. It was one of the initial novels of Yandamuri that became popular and he was appreciated widely for his narrating style. It was partially inspired by the 1971 bestselling novel The Exorcist. Tulasi Dalam was first adapted into a 1985 Kannada movie titled Thulasidala and later in Telugu as Tulasidalam (1989),in Hindi as Phoonk (2008) and its remake in Telugu as Raksha (2008).In 1986, a story based on this novel called Kashmora was filmed for which Yendamuri Verendranath has worked as writer.
Tulasi Dalam
1985
9.0Krishna, a child, faces various obstacles as he is considered unlucky by his family who avoids him. However, he finds comfort in his paternal uncle, who cares for him.
Bhagyavantha
1981
5.0Geetha, who had a one-night stand with Chandru while in college, must struggle to keep it a secret from her husband, Ravi, and also deal with a blackmailer, Vasu.
Baalu Jenu
1976
NRRajanna and his brother, Vicky, vow to avenge the murder of their mother at the hands of their cruel and greedy uncle, Rangappa.
Pooja Phala
1984
Kumar falls for Latha but is unable to marry her as his father opposes their relationship. After Kumar marries another woman, Chandru, an evil man, enters Latha's life, and Kumar tries to save her.
Maathu Tappada Maga
1978
7.0Dr Roopa and Dr Nataraj get married and being both egoistic, and little arrogant, differences come up in their personal and Professional life where they run a Nursing home. Roopa suspects her husband of having an affair with another Doctor Vasanthi...Suspicions and neglect and duty conflict with each other and will their wedding stand this acid test?
Hombisilu
1978
6.4Although Ramachari falls madly in love with Alamelu, her parents forbid their marriage and force her to marry another man. But Ramachari can't stand idly by when he discovers his sweetheart's husband has become her pimp. Quietly aiding Ramachari on his quest to save Alamelu is Chamayya, a childless woman who loves him as much as if he were her own son.
Naagarahaavu
1972
Santhosh, a businessman, abandons his sister after learning that she has married a guy who killed his fiancee.
Nyaya Gedditu
1983
NRKumar, a graduate who is fed up with injustice, decides to commit suicide by jumping off a train. However, he is arrested for it and he narrates his story in court.
Nyaya Neethi Dharma
1980
8.0Hema and her friends lead a happy life with her father in a small town. Unfortunately, Hema's father passes away and she is forced to live with her cousin in a city.
Shubhamangala
1975
9.0A young man sets out on a treasure hunt to capture a golden deer with magical powers. However, he soon learns secrets from his past life which shock him.
Bangarada Jinke
1980
8.0Muyyige Muyyi is a 1978 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by Y. R. Swamy and produced by P. Krishna Raj. The multi-starrer is led by Srinath, Vishnuvardhan, Aarathi, Manjula, Roja Ramani and Chandrashekhar.
Muyyige Muyyi
1978
9.5Based on the novel of same name by Bharathi Suta which was an adaptation of the English novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Madhavi leads an unfulfilled married life with her husband, a former soldier. She ends up getting into a physical relationship with their friendly neighbour, a younger man.
Edakallu Guddada Mele
1973
NRA family drama about the conflict between a father-in-law and his daughter-in-law.
Maava Sose Savaal
1982
NRThe movie is a story about a rugged, emotionally complex man named Jaggu, played by Ambareesh, and explores themes of identity, redemption, and social injustice within a backdrop of class conflict.
Jaggu
1983
8.0The 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.
Ranganayaki
1981