Arangetram
1973 · Dir. K. Balachander
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.
- Released
- 1973-02-02
- Runtime
- 152 min
- Language
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Top billed cast
Full cast & crew →Prameela
Lalitha
Sivakumar
Thangavelu
S. V. Subbaiah
Ramu Shastrigal
Kamal Haasan
Thyagu
Sasikumar
Pasupathy
Jayachitra
Mangalam
M. S. Sundari Bai
Janaki
Jayasudha
Devi
Senthamarai
Nadesa Udayar
R. Neelakantan
Music teacher
Jaishankar
Cameo (Himself)
Lakshmi
Cameo (Herself)
