Arangetram (1973)

Tamil movie · Romance, Drama, Family · 152 min · TMDB 5/10

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.

Cast: Prameela (Lalitha), S. V. Subbaiah (Ramu Shastrigal), Sivakumar (Thangavelu), Kamal Haasan (Thyagu), Sasikumar (Pasupathy), M. N. Rajam (Visalam).

Directed by K. Balachander.

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