''Lakshmi Saraswathi'' is a 1970 Indian

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

-language film, directed by K. S. L. Swamy (Ravi) and produced by B. H. Jayanna. The film stars

B. Saroja Devi Bangalore Saroja Devi (born 7 January 1938) is an Indian actress who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. She acted in around 200 films in over six decades. She is known by the epithets "''Abhinaya Saraswathi''" (Saraswathi of ac ...

, Ramesh, Sudarshan and

R. Nagendra Rao Rattihalli Nagendra Rao (23 June 1896 – 9 February 1977) was an Indian theatre actor, film actor and director in South Indian cinema. Following his career in theatre, Rao turned to film a where he became an actor, director, producer, screenwr ...

in the lead roles. The film has musical score by

Vijaya Bhaskar Vijaya Bhaskar ( kan, ವಿಜಯಭಾಸ್ಕರ್; 1924–2002) was an Indian music director and composer who composed music for several mainstream and experimental feature films in the Kannada film industry. Scoring music for over 600 fe ...

Cast

* B. Sarojadevi as Lakshmi / Saraswathi *Ramesh as Venu, Lakshmi's husband *

R. N. Sudarshan Rattihalli Nagendra Sudarshan (2 May 1939 – 8 September 2017) was an Indian actor and producer who had mainly worked in Kannada cinema. He had also acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. During a career spanning more than five de ...

as Anand, a doctor *

as Lakshmi and Saraswati's father *Ramadevi as Gundamma * Narasimharaju as Garageshwari Ranganathachar *

M. N. Lakshmi Devi M. N. Lakshmi Devi is a veteran film artist in Kannada films. She is from Chintamani and has had a career of 7 decades. She has acted in more than 700 films. Devi is known for the movies " Bhakta Kanakadasa"(1960), "Bangaarada Manushya"(1972), ...

as Shanthamma, Ranganathachar's wife *Y. R. Ashwath Narayan *Baby Mala *

Thoogudeepa Srinivas Mysore Srinivas (17 April 1943 – 16 October 1995), known by his stage name Thoogudeepa Srinivas was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada films and is remembered for his portrayal of negative-shaded characters. He is the father of actor, D ...

*H. R. Krishna Shastry *Manohar *C. L. Narayana Rao *Kodandu *Ragini in a cameo *

B. V. Radha Bengaluru Vijaya Radha (15 August 1948 – 10 September 2017), commonly known as B. V. Radha, was an Indian actress and film producer. She began her career in the 1964 Kannada film ''Navakoti Narayana''. She went on to play mostly supportin ...

in a cameo * M. Jayashree in a cameo *Annapurnamma in a cameo *

Lokanath C. H. Loknath (14 August 1927 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor with more than 1000 Kannada plays and 650 films to his credit. Loknath is affectionately known as "Uncle Loknath" or "Uppinakayi" in the industry. His last performance wa ...

in a cameo *Kumari Shantha *Kumari Saroja

References

External links

* * 1970 films 1970s Kannada-language films Films scored by Vijaya Bhaskar Films directed by K. S. L. Swamy {{1970s-Kannada-film-stub