Arangetram

Categories: Romance, Drama, Family
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.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1973-02-02
Run time: 152 minute / 2:32
Director: K. Balachander
Production Company : Kalakendra Movies
Production Country: India

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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)
Directing
K. Balachander Director

Writing
K. Balachander Writer

Production
N. Selvaraj Producer
J Duraisamy Producer
V. Govindarajan Producer

Sound
Kumar V Music

Editing
N. R. Kittu Editor

Camera
B. S. Lokanath Director of Photography

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