Baala Bandana
Baala Bandhana is a 1971 Indian Kannada language drama film, directed by Peketi Sivaram. The film stars Rajkumar and Jayanthi. The film was a remake of 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog which was based on the novel of same name by Ashapurna Devi.
Jog Biyog was earlier remade in Tamil as Padikkadha Medhai, in Telugu as Aatma Bandhuvu and in Hindi as Mehrban. Though the Kannada version was hit, it could not meet the success of the Tamil and Telugu remake versions of the same Bengali movie.
Plot
Orphaned as an infant, Ranga is brought up by his distant relative Chandrashekhar Rao Bahadur and his compassionate wife Parvathi.Chandrashekhar Rao heads a large family of three sons Ramnatha, Somanatha and Vishwantha, two daughters, the widowed Rajamma, their young children and Rajamma’ son. Parvathi promises her childhood friend Mayakka that she will take her daughter Lakshmi as her third daughter-in-law but ends up giving her in marriage to Ranga when her third son refuses to marry her.
Life takes a cruel turn for Chandrashekhar Rao when he loses all his wealth in share market. His daughter's marriage is called off, his sons attitude change and he is forced to send Ranga and Lakshmi out. He dies heartbroken. Ranga with the help of Kotaiah finds a job in a factory owned by Rachappa whose son is to have married Geetha. How Ranga sets right the turmoil in the family and reunites them forms rest of the story.