Nandi

1964 162’ b&w Kannada d/st/sc N. Lakshminarayan pc Shri Bharati Chitra p Vadiraj, Jawahar dial/lyr R.N. Jayagopal c R.N.K. Prasad m Vijayabhaskar lp Rajkumar, Harini, Kalpana, Balkrishna, Udaya Kumar, Soorat Ashwath, Ganapati Bhatt, Hanumanthachar, Jayashree, Rama, Shanthamma, Baby Suma, Baby Anita

Melodrama about deaf-mute people. Murthy’s (Rajkumar) wife (Kalpana) dies in childbirth, and when his son becomes deaf and mute, Murthy marries a deaf-mute (Harini), learns to lip-read and starts a school for the handicapped. When his son dies, his wife joins him in running the school. Eventually, the wife delivers a normal baby. The debut of Kannada cinema’s first self-proclaimed successor to Satyajit Ray, the hit film established Kalpana as a Kannada star.

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