Arangetram

Arangetram

152 mins | Drama, Family, Romance | Feb. 2, 1973

Lalitha is the eldest daughter of a pious and conservative Brahmin family. She has eight siblings and poverty rules reign. She decides to take up the family mantle and goes to work. Due to family needs and ill fate, she ends up as a prostitute but manages to settle all her brothers and sisters. Her family ditches her when they come to know about her dark side. Thangavelu, a man who was once rejected by her marries her. She loses her sanity in the end.

Arangetram

152 mins | Drama, Family, Romance | Feb. 2, 1973

Arangetram
Lalitha is the eldest daughter of a pious and conservative Brahmin family. She has eight siblings and poverty rules reign. She decides to take up the family mantle and goes to work. Due to family needs and ill fate, she ends up as a prostitute but manages to settle all her brothers and sisters. Her family ditches her when they come to know about her dark side. Thangavelu, a man who was once rejected by her marries her. She loses her sanity in the end.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Kalakendra Movies
Original title அரங்கேற்றம்
Directors K. Balachander
Writers K. Balachander

Cast

Prameela

as Lalitha

S. V. Subbaiah

as Ramu Shastrigal

Sivakumar

as Thangavelu

Kamal Haasan

as Thyagu

Sasikumar

as Pasupathy

M. N. Rajam

as Visalam

M. S. Sundari Bai

as Janaki

Senthamarai

as Nadesa Udayar

R. Neelakantan

as Music teacher

Jayachitra

as Mangalam

Jayasudha

as Devi

Jaishankar

as Cameo (Himself)

Lakshmi

as Cameo (Herself)